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Showing posts with label mental. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Take action or wait

Whatever what come up in life, we always have the opportunities to act or wait. We always choose to fight, to succeed in realizing our dreams, goals or to let others run our lives and our destiny.

Why is it so difficult to act for our own good?
Often it is through lack of energy, lack of mental energy, lack of belief and because the doubt to missed shot is larger than the certainty of success. It is a sad statement, but unfortunately the sad reality for too many people.

Life seems littered with misfortune, because we perceive challenges as misfortunes. Few of us have received an education that we do see misfortunes as normal situations, as personal growth steps, as essential events for learning to trust ourselves and not let others and events direct our life.

As life is absolutely not fair, it is quite useless to compare to anyone on this earth, and on the occasions that you get to live a happy and peacefull life. You have your life and you must appreciate the fact that you still have opportunities to change what you dislike about your life. This is not always easy, I grant you, but it's almost always possible to do better, to put energy in it and believe in yourself, even in the most desperate situations.

How to act in all circumstances?
Nothing easier, drop your ego and get help immediately. Look for people, organizations and information to help you sort out your situation.

You think this explanation is simplistic! I can guarantee you one thing, from the moment you decide to really solve your difficult situation, regardless of the situation and that you will employ competent people, your chances of finding solutions will be increased tenfold.

As you are no longer alone in your world, the burden of your situation will diminish considerably. Therefore, you'll be less stressed and you will find a great deal of energy. Never forget the pain and anxiety (stress) are the two things that reduce your energy.

The impact of waiting
It is not difficult to understand if you let things settle itself, there is little chance of seeing the problem solve by itself. The more you ignore a situation, the worse the consequences will be not to try to resolve them.

Most situations that you will face in your life are not extreme tragedies like those that people have to live facing events that destroy everything they have and kill their relatives.

If you decide to wait before you turn on to solve your difficult situations, you may put yourself in situations that have consequences for several years, consequences still more difficult to resolve and sometimes irreversible ones.

Be your own savior
Do not wait until someone discovers that you are in a difficult situation and be your own savior. Be the person who takes things in hand and put in place a team of specialists, a trusted team to resolve the situation.

You understand what I mean, approach the situation as a project, an adventure in which you have a triggering role that allows your team to help you find the most effective way to overcome your situation positively while having learned that life is less complicated with a team.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The benefits of music

Music is not just there to be heard, it is much more than that. Music can move us, make us think of anecdotes and more. It would even virtues health. Studies have indeed shown that music acts instantly on our physical and mental well-being.

The Mozart effect, this study began in 1992 in the United States in the Central Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Learning and Memory at the University of Wisconsin. It showed that after ten minutes of listening to a piano sonata by Mozart, our potential for reasoning and concentration increases of 50% for a few moments. Since this experience, studies have succeeded.

Thanks to these studies, we discovered that the goods made from music are varied. For example, the music produces more endorphins, which are the "molecules of happiness." But this is not all, it regulates heartbeat and blood, stabilizes the physical endurance and increases it and it also restores language functions for a brain damaged. No need to take tranquilizers, listen to music.

Music affects our mood. Some sounds, tones and rhythms, especially the music of Mozart, Gregorian chant music and some jazz, some Latin pieces, folk and even rock, could in fact increase our intelligence, our creativity and miraculously heal our bodies. This remarkable phenomenon is called "Mozart effect".

Another benefit of music: it improves memory!
It can provide result not only by listening, but by practice it. This is the conclusion of several Chinese researchers. After following students who took piano lessons, they showed that these students had higher scores on cognitive tests. Their memory was more efficient, they learned words more easily and more restrained.

Furthermore, participation in musical activity improves self-discipline, dexterity, coordination, self-esteem, listening skills and creativity as well as personal expression in general.

Even doctors are discovering the benefits of music
The new trend in operating rooms, is to listen to music during operations, this practice has become quite popular in the United States and the United Kingdom. Some doctors believe that it relieves tension and studies have shown that this practice may also benefit to patients.

The anesthesiologist, Dr. Frank Gentile in the United States believes that music helps to make better surgeons. They work faster because they are in a better mood. The atmosphere in the operating room can work calmly and allows the team to feel better during operations.

The music helps patients relax
Research has even shown that patients who listened to music before and during surgery showed that they diminish their stress. Blood pressure normally increases during surgery, but listening to music helps to reduce the blood pressure.

The researchers found that the best results are obtained when the patient listen to music of their choice rather than music considered soothing. Thus, it seems that listening to relaxing music does not apply only to doctors, but also to patients.

What is music therapy?
Music therapy is a component of art therapy.

It is a judicious use of music as a basic therapeutic tool to restore, maintain or improve mental health, physical and emotional of a person.

It follows from the interaction between patient and music therapist. Speaking of music therapy is about communication.

The music therapist who works in the field of nonverbal, seeks to achieve the emotional sphere of the person, to open channels of communications, using sound stimuli, an emotional pleasant state, comforting or disturbing, enabling openness to self and others, can help fight against some pain, some discomfort.

Nowadays, music therapy is the subject of extensive scientific work that allowed to take place in many Centers Hospital as supplementary or therapeutic in itself.

In conclusion
No matter under what circumstances, the music has beneficial effects that really look deep within our emotions. Whether the effect is conscious or unconscious, the result is the same, the music gives us a unique wellness and healing.