Light Up Like A Pinball Machine
When the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma is performing, do you think he’s thinking about what he’s doing up there on stage? I’ll answer shortly.
“Nothing activates as many areas of the brain as music,” researcher Donald A. Hodges recently told an audience at the University of Miami.
He said this while looking up at a screen showing scans of the brain during musical activity. Both hemispheres were lit up ‘like a pinball machine.’
What makes the big difference. According to Hodges - a rich environment - activating those brain cells with music and creative projects. He found that “The brain: Use it or lose it… Music changes the brain.”
He believes that, like mathematics, music is a necessary way of understanding the universe.
How else to explain that, when Yo-Yo Ma is playing his cello in concert, there is almost No activity in the part of his brain where conscious thought takes place. The guy is basically unconscious while he’s performing. Or, as I would say, superconscious.
Since all the thought to learn the music took place earlier, if Yo-Yo were to think now - while performing - he’d be making errors in judgment. By thinking he would come out of his meditative state which would impede his playing. You see, great musicians simply perform, much like a highly trained athlete.
I know this from watching my husband Clayton perform. He enters an altered state of consciousness that is so riveting to watch and listen to, you can’t help but share the experience with him. It’s absolutely magnetic.
Hodges also confirmed that “musicians are small-muscle athletes.” And here’s where it gets really exciting. Not just the performer benefits, as I was alluding above.
The listener too is having the area of the brain that controls motion stimulated. That’s why it’s actually unnatural to sit still during concerts.
Also, since your spinal chord reacts immediately to rhythm, your whole body gets stimulated by the music you’re listening too. Just like the food you eat reaches every part of your body, so does music. Only music reaches every part of you -instantaneously.
It’s becoming more difficult by the day to ignore the proof about the power of sounds. If you haven’t experienced the Positive effects yet, it’s high time to get your copy of The Secret Power of Words and Music and feel your mind and body regenerating now.
Warm Regards,
Tania Gabrielle French
“Nothing activates as many areas of the brain as music,” researcher Donald A. Hodges recently told an audience at the University of Miami.
He said this while looking up at a screen showing scans of the brain during musical activity. Both hemispheres were lit up ‘like a pinball machine.’
What makes the big difference. According to Hodges - a rich environment - activating those brain cells with music and creative projects. He found that “The brain: Use it or lose it… Music changes the brain.”
He believes that, like mathematics, music is a necessary way of understanding the universe.
How else to explain that, when Yo-Yo Ma is playing his cello in concert, there is almost No activity in the part of his brain where conscious thought takes place. The guy is basically unconscious while he’s performing. Or, as I would say, superconscious.
Since all the thought to learn the music took place earlier, if Yo-Yo were to think now - while performing - he’d be making errors in judgment. By thinking he would come out of his meditative state which would impede his playing. You see, great musicians simply perform, much like a highly trained athlete.
I know this from watching my husband Clayton perform. He enters an altered state of consciousness that is so riveting to watch and listen to, you can’t help but share the experience with him. It’s absolutely magnetic.
Hodges also confirmed that “musicians are small-muscle athletes.” And here’s where it gets really exciting. Not just the performer benefits, as I was alluding above.
The listener too is having the area of the brain that controls motion stimulated. That’s why it’s actually unnatural to sit still during concerts.
Also, since your spinal chord reacts immediately to rhythm, your whole body gets stimulated by the music you’re listening too. Just like the food you eat reaches every part of your body, so does music. Only music reaches every part of you -instantaneously.
It’s becoming more difficult by the day to ignore the proof about the power of sounds. If you haven’t experienced the Positive effects yet, it’s high time to get your copy of The Secret Power of Words and Music and feel your mind and body regenerating now.
Warm Regards,
Tania Gabrielle French
posted by Tania Gabrielle at 10:41 AM
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