Stress Busters

Stress Busters Stress. It’s all around us. A small amount of stress in some circumstances can actually be a good thing – it can be what fuels us in “fight or flight” situations. Most of the time, however, stress is not a good thing. It can cause physical and mental harm to our minds and…

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Podcast Stress Free Students

Podcast Stress Free Students Welcome to Episode 6 of our Calming Music Weekly Podcast series. In this episode we discuss how to help your child / student with their stresses and worries. Click the PLAY button to listen. To hear more of our podcasts, visit   https://soundcloud.com/calming-music-podcast   or  https://calmingmusicweekly.com/category/podcasts/ Please share this podcast by clicking on the social…

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Nervous ? Moi ?

Nervous ? Moi ? Sitting in the reception area of a non-descript building in an non-descript area of an inner city suburb, my daughter is nervous. Or at least, she is pretending to be. She is not freaking out, not going crazy and not pulling all her hair out…. She is simply just a little…

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Teaching Your Child About Music

Teaching Your Child About Music Are you a Home School parent and teacher ? Or perhaps you might be a parent who simply wants to teach your child about music ? Music soothes the soul and calms the savage beast. This applies to children as well ! Music education and appreciation is VERY important. It…

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Calming Jazz Music

Best Calming Jazz Music Calming music can take on may forms. It can span many genres. Here at Calming Music Weekly, we love all kinds of music – especially if it calms the mind and soothes the soul. So, in the interests of expanding our definition of “calming music” to follow are six examples of…

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Healing Powers of Calming Music

As part of our Guest Posts series, please welcome to our blog Steve Rees. In case you are unaware, Steve plays the most calming and relaxing Harp known to human kind.  His music stills the mind, soothes the soul, relaxes the body – and it sounds great too.  We are also very lucky to have Steve as one of…

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Stress Free Students

Stress Free Students Around the world, students everywhere are dusting off their school shoes, checking to see if their school uniforms still fit and getting ready for the new school year. Summer holidays in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter Break in the Northern Hemisphere has come to an end. Groans from bedrooms around the world…

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If Julia Roberts can, so can we.

If Julia Roberts can, so can we. A number of years ago, Julia Roberts played the lead role in a movie called “Eat, Pray, Love”. It was a great movie (and a great book by Elizabeth Gilbert before that) about a woman who was unhappy with her life and decided quit her job to follow…

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Interview with Jeff Gold

Interview with Jeff Gold A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of stumbling across the website of Jeff Gold. After a few minutes I realised I had found a VERY fine musician indeed.  So much so, that I spent far too much time listening to the various examples of his wonderfully calming music…

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Video 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down Part 3

Video – 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down and Fire Up – Part 3. Continued from Part 2, which in turn was continued from Part 1. The final video in our series, I am discussing the ways in which music can help us to calm down and fire up. Keep your ears…

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