Center for Music Medicine Blog

Dawn of the Unity Wave

2011-02-01T08:50:00.000-08:00

I hope that each of you reading this edition will take pause in your day, wherever you are, and allow your spirit to consciously acknowledge and celebrate

March 9, 2011 – The Dawn of the Unity Wave

First…I invite you to review this “short read” as it is a great piece on the Mayan timeline leading into 2012. March 9, 2011 marks the beginning, in the Mayan calendar, for the 9^th level of evolution .

The Dawn Unity Wave

Second…Unity Consciousness made an additional appearance in the headlines this week.(at least the ones I’m looking at) It appeared under the topic/subject of UFO Disclosure. As always, use your own discernment.

Chinese National TV reporting impending UFO/ET disclosure by Obama government

Dr. Susan Shumsky also recently spoke on the upcoming “Cruise into 2012 – Surfing the 9^th Wave”about this wave of Unity Consciousness.

Only a shift to Unity Consciousness will forever stop the unchecked exploitation of the Earth and on a deeper level, make us understand that we are part of creation and need to live in harmony with it. “Cruising into 2012—Surfing the 9th Wave” is for all those who are ready to authentically say: “I intend to manifest Unity Consciousness on this planet.”

I love synchronicity in my life; it makes things so abundantly clear...blessings!

Suzie Sonic and the Marvelous Music Machine

2011-01-27T09:17:00.001-08:00

Suzie Sonic
and the
Marvelous Music Machine

The Center for Music Medicine’s “Win, Win, Win” Fundraiser. Check inside for details...

Sound Advice for Every Age

Workshop Series

The goal of the workshop series is to raise awareness of music as a tool for
a healthier, happier, more peaceful existence at any age.

A musical journey into the marvelous world of science!

Join us as we journey into the science of vibration and sound. Vibrate the senses as you stimulate your brain.
See and feel the effects of sound, as music. Ride the energy waves of music, as we examine the functions of our auditory, nervous, and electrical bodily systems, stimulated by music. Treat your senses to a visual and physical banquet of cool science and tingly tones in the vibrating subject of sound.
Explore how music (controlled sound) tickles the brain and causes your toes to tap.
Travel to a place where thought becomes a vibration/sound that can be seen and felt.

Bringing awareness to the power of music.

The Center for Music Medicine offers two basic performances for school age students.
For those 6th grade and under… Suzy Sonic and the Marvellous
Music Machine

Each show presents age-appropriate, interactive, multi-media programs for your students, community of faith, clients, staff, and/or organization. Founded in science, we explore everything from the body’s hearing to the physics of sound. Participants will enjoy group activities like creating rhythms and harmonies, observing the transference of energy and waves, visualizing sound through cymatics, experiencing the musical body and checking out how to be your own instrument and make instruments from household items.

For those 7th grade and up… “Sound Advice”

We expand the primary level curriculum and focus on the physics of sound, the study of cymatics, the connection between music and the brain & body cell’s development, the value of water, and the properties of intent.

Adult workshops (three hours to full weekend sessions) explore quantum theory, value and use of music for learning, conjunctive medicine, and music as an aid for personal growth and development.

“Win, Win, Win” Fundraiser

The “Win, Win, Win” Fundraiser program requires limited responsibilities on your part, promotes science and music, and proves our music “does a body good”!

Audiences “Win”

Fun Edu-tainment* provides age appropriate science and music concepts,
is physically engaging, and promotes music as a tool for activating
the brain and good health.

*Edu-tainment is teaching and learning within an entertaining environment.

Organizations “Win”

A day of informative* performances at NO cost.
Support materials are provided.

YOU “Win”

Earn up to 55% of all sales.

Receive revenue for six weeks after the performances without any
work on your part.

~To schedule your workshops or learn more, visit ~

www.centerformusicmedicine.org : info@centerformusicmedicine.org

tralleart@gmail.com : dtralle@gmail.com
916.376.9092

Just a Thought

2009-02-07T07:21:00.000-08:00

Even if music isn't rooted in evolution, there is something about its sheer power to heal and revive the human spirit that seems to set it apart from other arts.

Music - The Frequency of Creation

2008-12-02T12:41:00.000-08:00

In the beginning was the Word.

Prior to that utterance

(sound, vibration, frequency)

was thought,

then intent.

As our world and conscious experience continues to unfold about us with what seems to be an ever increasing acceleration, it can often leave us feeling shocked in disbelief or astounded in amazement. It can be helpful in our journey to look again and reflect on our very own essence.

What seems amazing today is the distance our sciences and knowledge have traversed in illuminating the wonderment of this life experience. It is an astounding fact that still, through all of our discoveries, we have yet to determine any boundaries in either the macro or the micro. From the largest to the smallest, the more we observe the more we see.

Through my years of study and observation of Music as Medicine, the video below (I believe) most succinctly connects all of the validating principles as to the "How and Why" music can work to heal. Though music itself is not mentioned directly in this film, the components of music (sound, frequency, vibration) most certainly are.

Sound is the very essence and backdrop of creation. Throughout history, it has been recorded that sound is creative. All of creation is energy vibrating at different frequencies and sound. The Word, is the primordial frequency to all that is.

Music is the vibrating pulsation of intelligently created frequencies interrelating, colliding and coalescing to communicate the beauty and intent of the Word. May all be filled with the wonderment and experience deep appreciation for this experience we know as Life.

Inspiration/Imagination + Energy = Matter

Music Heals!

Pioneer Spotlight - Norman M. Weinberger

2008-12-02T04:44:00.000-08:00

"Many of us became musicians to fill an emotional need, not knowing the mind was benefiting too. As more research ties the mind to health and emotional well being, music will become both medicine and exercise for the mind!"

The work, the research, and the prolific publications of Norman Weinberger on Music, Cognitive Processes, Learning and Education continue to provide a rich source of knowledge and inspiration to my own understanding of Music as Medicine. The scientific validation that music provides a tool to improve learning, enhance memory and provide beneficial health results becomes irrefutable through the work of Music Medicine Pioneers like Norman Weinberger.

As a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California Irvine, Norman Weinberger's research has focused on how the brain learns and remembers information, particularly how it stores what we hear. In 1998, he became Executive Director of the International Foundation for Music Research. The goal of the Foundation is to fund basic and applied research on music, learning and behavior.

Much of Norman Weinberger's attention has revolved around the importance of Music in Education. It is not difficult to see the results in our society from the removal of music in our public education system. The testimony given before the International Foundations for Music Research in July of 1999 still speaks loud and clear. If you have children in the public school system please consider the value of Norman Weinbergers testimony in the learning and behavioral development of your children.

- The devaluation of music because it involves emotion falsely assumes that music is not cognitive. Actually, music involves as many or more cognitive processes than any other school subject. For example, playing from a score involves most if not all cognitive processes. These include perception of the score and of the music produced, interpretation of images on the page based on prior learning of an abstract language with its own complex syntax, continual and focused attention, planning highly intricate movements, adjusting this motor program to not only match the score,s meter and rhythm but also the ongoing tempo as indicated by the conductor, executing the motor plan to make an appropriate level of sound, with appropriate phrasing, nuance and expression, attending to the results both aural and kinesthetic, and beginning this continual process of problem solving again. Where in all of this is there mental activity less exalted or less important for cognitive development than in reading, riting or rithmetic? Of course, these are important subjects, but so is music. If one is concerned with developing the human intellect, rather than whether the school band wins prizes, how can one possibly justify treating music as a second-class subject in education?

Norman Weinberger's work, as it relates specifically to music can be found at;

MuSICA - The Music & Science Information Computer Archive.

Norman Weinberger's current research interests;

Neurobiology of learning and memory

I am in personal gratitude to Norman Weinberger for his contributions to my own personal growth and for his generous contributions to the understanding of Music as Medicine

Positive Music – A Step toward Healing

2008-11-20T14:15:00.001-08:00

The Center for Music Medicine supports and participates in the efforts to bring Positive Music to the forefront of consciousness.

The Positive Music Association is a gathering of like-minded community who understand that music communicates and that what we, as musicians, play and what we listen to conveys intent in lyric and in note. Positive Music seeks to uplift the condition of the human experience and expresses a harmonic affinity to peace and healing on the planet. Positive Music is a message of hope and goodwill to all.

Harmonizing with Humanity is a growing community that promotes Positive Music through their House Concert program and is a great way to support the growth of Positive Music. Click Here for more info.

Pratical Metaphysics - Water & Music

2008-11-20T06:21:00.000-08:00

When it comes to discovering simple and natural ways of taking care of the whole you (body, mind & spirit) look no further than the mystical and healing qualities of water and music.

Water, the most abundant resource on earth, and which comprises approximately 70% of human beings, remains one of the most enigmatic and mysterious elements known.

Music, exclusive to the human experience, is a metaphysical language that transcends words, cultures and geographic boundaries and can speak to the very foundations of our hearts, emotions and our cellular structure.

Together, music and water, combined with intent, form a powerful natural and holistic healing elixir that can be taken with zero side effects. The best part is, there is little or no cost to incorporating this knowledge and practice into your daily life and benefiting from this natural healing remedy.

Water

For those who may be new to this idea the work and research of Dr. Masaru Emoto is a great place to start. In a published document titled “Miraculous Messages from Water” Dr. Emoto’s work is explained and exampled in very easy to understand terms. Though controversy erupted over Dr. Emoto’s methods and lab procedures from scientific peer review, new studies and findings on waters ability to retain memory are again validating ancient wisdoms and Dr. Emoto’s work.

Recently New Scientist Magazine published an article entitled “13 things That Do Not Make Sense” in which Madeleine Ennis, a pharmacologist at Queen's University, Belfast, and a staunch opponent of homeopathy, undertook a study to refute the idea that water holds memory. Madeleine Ennis, surprised at her findings, confirmed through four different lab studies, was quoted as saying "We are unable to explain our findings and are reporting them to encourage others to investigate this phenomenon."

Music

There is another concept which the ancients understood and which will eventually be recognized by modern scientists. This is the concept of "intention," the understanding that sound/music has the ability to transmit the intention of the one creating the sound to the one receiving the sound. Intention is the energy behind the sound. It is the thought and will which we have when making music or sound. If you are angry or sad when making a sound, despite the frequency of the sound (which creates its resonance), the effect of the sound will convey anger or sadness. Conversely, if we are happy or joyful when we create the sound, its effect, regardless of the actual sound being created, will be one of joy.

Music, created with the intent of peace and healing ,is ideally suited to a marriage with water

Dr. Masaru Emoto's work provided factual evidence, that human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music, affect the molecular structure of water, the very same water that comprises over seventy percent of a mature human body and covers the same amount of our planet. So wait no longer to begin using music and water in your daily life. Break out the water, the music and your positive affirmations. As you drink and use this water and it becomes a part of your cellular structure, be sure to take note of the positive changes that occur in your life. Music Heals!

A Clear Note on Natural Pain and Stress Relief

2008-11-20T05:59:00.000-08:00

It does not matter what condition you have or what treatment you are receiving. A proven method of natural pain relief and stress relief is at hand. There is virtually no cost for this marvelous product and there are no known negative side effects.

Music is medicine for the body, mind and spirit. Music medicine has powerful effects on the human form. Like all medicines, music can be used to bring about a healthy harmonious state of being or be misused to bring about harm to the human experience. We as a culture and people are now able to confirm this is ancient knowledge, through today’s advancements in our scientific and medical research. The key, to using music’s positive effects in our individual lives, is the understanding that music is sound vibrations, creatively manipulated into organized sounds and silences. We all know that vibrations affect and alter other vibrations. Consider the effect for fingernails dragged across the surface of a chalkboard on your senses or the sound of a crash on your adrenaline level. Specifically music involves complex generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli; principally sound. Music is organized in time and consists of pitch (which includes melody and harmony, rhythm (which includes tempo and meter) and the quality of the sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Each of these elements directly affects the mind, body and spirit of mankind. Each aspect of music affects us differently.

Music Can

In your mind-

move a person from one brain wave pattern to another. There are four basic categories of brain waves: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. closely link to memory

alter your sense of time divert your attention activates and increases the creative human trait

In your body-

release hormones, Without a person’s consciences awareness music causes neurochemical activity in the body of such power that listening to a favorite piece of music will stimulate the same pleasure reward centers as an orgasm, eating chocolate, drinking champagne, or experiencing the high of an additive drug.
Passive musical involvement can reduce the release of stress hormones

Natural internal muscle relaxers, mood stabilizers, pain relievers stimulate the motor skills control centers causing changes on the autonomic nervous system The human brain activity engages music neurochemically, functionally, hormonally, and physiologically while listening to or creating music. Music, still in the form of electrical impulse, moves down the spinal cord causing changes on the autonomic nervous system. entrain rhythmic patterns of the circulatory, respiratory and systems stimulate and alter the very cells within your body increases brain cell development Brains apparently have a rule about togetherness, which is something like “Cells that are active together become more closely connected”. This can lead to more cells being “recruited” to the task, so that the brain area that processes information becomes larger. One “astounding” implication is that a person can “grow”, i.e., increase brain regions by musical practice, shaping your own brain according to what you do.

In your spirit-

stimulates the emotions

change your “state of mind

Want to know more? Please visit the Center for Music Medicine and investigate for yourself the science and art of healing music.

Vibrational Therapy Being Used for Autistic Children with Great Success

2008-11-20T05:57:00.000-08:00

Recently, healing music ceremonies have been on network television news because scientists have determined that they really do provide healing. The segment I watched on healing music ceremonies talked about how the therapy is making life better for autistic children, by settling them down, focusing their attentions so that they can relax, and learn new behaviors, skills, and ideas. The healing music ceremonies are gifts for them to help them learn to live in a normal world, where eventually they will be able to contribute to not only their well being, but live some semblance of a normal life. Vibrational therapy is a natural way to heal conditions, so much better than using drugs or psychopharmaceuticals to change behaviors. And it's a lifelong healing ceremony, as well. No one suffers any adverse side effects from the special music that comprise the healing music ceremonies.

People who are facing serious illness who want to augment their traditional allopathic therapies should consider vibrational therapy as an adjunct therapy. Often the treatments for serious disease like cancer completely debilitate the body, but with the support of vibrational therapy, much good can come of pursuing these natural, alternative treatments.

You May Resonate With This!!

2007-07-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

I feel such a sense of gratitude to the powerful energies at work for Good in our conscious experience right now. It is an amazing time to be alive and a celestial privilege to witness that which is transpiring before our eyes.
It is truly a time to dream (and manifest) a new dream, a new paradigm, a new way to be, an expression of the One that sees, feels, understands and acts from that connectedness.

Part of the richness in my life is that I get to co-create, weekly, an experience of musical meditation for a community of like-minded people who gather to celebrate and acknowledge their inter-connectedness. By co-create, I mean there is The Creator, an expression of the creator that functions as conduit (Me), and other expressions of the Creator that choose to co-create the experience for themselves also.

This music is born from within this collective energy, coupled with my free will intent and desire that this music help and heal people and our beloved planet. (Another expression of the One) My music is not rehearsed but simply flows from the Creative, in which we’re always immersed, through me, to render itself as an unspoken musical message of It’s Love.

If these musical meditations are of service to you, I want you to have them. If you know someone whose health may benefit from this music I want them to have this music too.
I am offering, free of any charge, to send these meditations to you on a periodic basis.
If you would be kind enough to send me your email address I will email you with a web link that will allow you to download the MP3 file like the one below from the July 22, 2007 meditation.
http://www.mediafire.com/?f9zgxt3syfd

As these meditations run about 20 minutes their file size is rather large (17-20 Mb) so DSL or High Speed is recommended.

Please enjoy, be well and let me hear from you.

David Tralle
http://www.centerformusicmedicine.org/
www.myspace.com/centerformusicmedicine

New Music Meditation. Hear it now!

2007-07-16T12:22:00.000-07:00

Dearest Friends – It is with gratitude for our connection and you’re encouraging words and support that we continue to create a new vision for our world and ourselves.
Thank you.

In that light of love and connection it is in my heart to share, with each of you, yesterdays (July 15, 2007) Musical Meditation. My hope is that you experience a resonance with the music and find its intent of peace and healing within the carrier wave of these vibrations.

My desire is that you will create for yourself the conditions in your life that would allow you 20 minutes to sit, rest and journey through your thoughts and emotions, surrounded by these unspoken words of music. I know this; you deserve it!

Please enjoy the ride.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4tdsqzq9nj1

Blessings to each of you,
David
www.centerformusicmedicine.org
www.myspace.com/centerformusicmedicine

There's Music Out There...Everywhere!

2007-03-17T15:12:00.000-07:00

I was sitting here working on the Center for Music Medicine web site, finding my internal frequencies lowering as emotive reactions of frustration began to manifest through the cause/effect of this not-quite-yet tweaked laptop. It's a long story for another time.
Anyway I found myself suddenly hearing the exterior sounds of close-by and distant birds, children playing a few doors down, a distant helicopter hovering over the interstate and a myriad of other distinguishable disturbance waves affecting my reality perceptions. What really got me were the close-by birds.
I have to tell you that it is an absolutely beautiful, warm and sunny day in West Sac. They're not even spraying us today. So..here I am listening to the birds and feeling drowsy and I'm whisked away by the music of the moment into a distant past memory of childhood naps.
What a good idea! So as I acknowledged the emotion of and chose not to participate in a feeling of frustration and instead turned and heard the moments music I relinquished into a supine posture and steeped myself into the childhood memory. It sounded exactly like I remembered it sounding when I was five. I had a nice nap too.
I hope you are well, in sunny weather and will stop and hear the music

David Tralle
Healing Music Artist
Center for Music Medicine