Category Archives: Relaxation Suggestions
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…
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…
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…
Podcast Waves clouds and all that Jazz
Podcast – Waves clouds and all that Jazz. Welcome to Episode 5 of our Calming Music Weekly Podcast series. In this episode we discuss the relationship the ancient Inuit (Eskimo) people had with their music and their deliberate attempts at relaxation and meditation, in what must have been a very stressful and harsh existence. Click…
Nice Non-Denominational Holiday
I’m Dreaming of a Nice Non-Denominational Holiday A few nights ago I was at a local Amateur Theatre – Nuworks – which my oldest daughter has been involved with. She was in a recent show that was put on by Nuworks and with any luck she will be involved in more productions next year. They…
The Art Of Stillness
The Art Of Stillness TED.com is a very inspiring place to hang out. Full of interesting and thought provoking speakers, there is something for everyone to learn from. In this TED Talk, Pico Iyer discusses serveral of the ideas mentioned here at Calming Music Weekly. He talks about the concepts of being still, of taking the…
Less Holiday Stress More Holiday Turkey
Less Holiday Stress, More Holiday Turkey. It’s that time of year again… you can feel it in the air, on the street, in the car, on the road and certainly in the shopping centres and malls. “Making a List” – yep, done. Frantically rush to finish the multiple projects at work that absolutely MUST BE…
Calming Music for Anxiety
Calming Music for Anxiety, Panic and Stress Soundcloud is a wonderful place. Soundcloud, in my opinion is to audio as Youtube is to video. The other day I was just having a play with Soundcloud and I made what I suspect will be a very relaxing and calming discovery. Jon Brooks appears to be a musician…
Podcast Yoga Music and Darth Vader
Podcast – Yoga Music and Darth Vader Here is another podcast in our relaxation suggestions series. We discuss the hand in glove relationship between the physical and mental aspects of yoga combined with the mental imagery and internalisation of the music that often accompanies it. And Darth Vader. Click the PLAY button to listen. To hear…
Medical Miracle found in Music
Medical Miracle found in Music OK – I need to make this very clear right up front. I am NOT a Doctor. Nor have I had any medical training whatsoever. In fact, the only experience with medicine I’ve had is once I dislocated my toe when I mis-judged the kitchen doorway and I had to…
