Category Archives: Calming Music Musings
8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down and Fire Up – Part 1
8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down and Fire Up – Part 1 Music has an incredible effect on people. It can make you laugh, cry, angry, happy, sad, joyful, worried, frightened, energetic, calm, at peace. It can make you want to dance, or want to sleep. Music can help you relax.…
Between Music and Medicine
Between Music and Medicine. I can become lost in TED.com . The incredibley intelligent, articulate and inspring people who share their thoughts and expertise is simple amazing. Here in this talk, Robert Gupta – a musician and a doctor – describes how he chose between music and medicine. He describes the ideas of music being able…
Waves clouds and all that Jazz.
Waves clouds and all that Jazz. The other day I was watching a YouTube video documentary about the ancient Inuit (Eskimo) people who lived somewhere in Northern Greenland more than 500 years ago. Recently an old grave has been discovered containing the perfectly preserved and naturally mummified bodies of 8 people – all female, including…
Nature Beauty Gratitude
Nature Beauty Gratitude Here is another inspriring TED talk worthy of your valuable time. In it, Louie Schwartzberg discusses the sheer beauty of nature and enhances his words with his amazing time lapse photography. Then he shows a very short film he has been working on – again with profound but simple narration behind his visually…
Relax Its Only Halloween
Relax – It’s Only Halloween. Boo !!! <insert mental image of a wicked laugh here, or press play> http://mobilegratuit.fr/sonneriemp3/Devil%20Laugh.mp3 Sorry if I frightened you. Here at Calming Music Weekly we are not usually in the business of scaring people. Apart from my rather lame jokes, we usually try to keep everyone on a nice, calm…
How to Breathe
How to Breathe As mentioned a few weeks ago, I recently discovered a wonderful blog called ZenHabits.net . Leo from ZenHabits.net has some fascinating posts about stress, calmness, wellbeing, maintaining a sense of self and seeing the world in a different way. Here is another post that Leo has written. ====================================================== Your day is getting hectic,…
Ten Mindful Minutes
Ten Mindful Minutes When was the last time you did nothing for ten minutes ? Ten minutes is not a long time…. can you imagine just sitting still and emptying your mind for that long ? For the un-initiated, TED.com is an amazing resource of very clever people talking about very inspiring things. Here is…
Sharing the News
Sharing the News This blogging concept is really interesting. From a technical point of view, there are approximately twenty three gazillion templates to use, once you have set up your hosting and domain name options. Each of these templates look good in their own way, some have bells, some have whistles, some have both, some…
River Ramblings
River Ramblings The sleepy little town of Jamieson is one of my most favourite places in all the world. I carry a mental picture of it in my mind – especially the view from my father-in-laws back balcony which looks out across to the hills over on the other side of the valley. This blog…
In Praise Of Slowness
For the uninitiated, TED is a website and movement that has videos of inspirational people, teachers, leaders and thoughtful individuals. These very intelligent people get up onto stages all over the world and give amazing talks. Here is one such talk at a TED conference that I thought I should share as it is very…
