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The Power of Sound: How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive, and Healthy Life
Discover firsthand in this book/CD set the powerful effects sound has on you and learn to customize your own soundscape for a better quality of life.
• Sound pioneer Joshua Leeds shows how to use music to reduce stress, enhance learning, improve performance, and address conditions as diverse as dyslexia and depression.
• Includes accompanying CD featuring musical examples designed to induce specific mental states such as relaxation, receptivity, concentration, and creativity.
• Includes detailed guides for musicians and healthcare professionals
What we hear--and how we process it--has a far greater impact on our daily living than we realize. From the womb to the moment we die we are inescapably surrounded by sound, and what we hear can either energize or deplete our nervous systems. It is no exaggeration to say that what goes into our ears can harm us or heal us.
In The Power of Sound Joshua Leeds explores the importance of healthy auditory function. He investigates how noise- or stress-induced auditory dysfunction may result in difficulties in learning, communication, and social interactions, and he explains new techniques designed to invigorate auditory skills. The accompanying CD of psychoacoustically refined classical music provides immediate examples of the benefits of music explained in the book. Readers can experience the effects of a variety of sounds and begin the life-enhancing design of their own soundscapes.
• Sound pioneer Joshua Leeds shows how to use music to reduce stress, enhance learning, improve performance, and address conditions as diverse as dyslexia and depression.
• Includes accompanying CD featuring musical examples designed to induce specific mental states such as relaxation, receptivity, concentration, and creativity.
• Includes detailed guides for musicians and healthcare professionals
What we hear--and how we process it--has a far greater impact on our daily living than we realize. From the womb to the moment we die we are inescapably surrounded by sound, and what we hear can either energize or deplete our nervous systems. It is no exaggeration to say that what goes into our ears can harm us or heal us.
In The Power of Sound Joshua Leeds explores the importance of healthy auditory function. He investigates how noise- or stress-induced auditory dysfunction may result in difficulties in learning, communication, and social interactions, and he explains new techniques designed to invigorate auditory skills. The accompanying CD of psychoacoustically refined classical music provides immediate examples of the benefits of music explained in the book. Readers can experience the effects of a variety of sounds and begin the life-enhancing design of their own soundscapes.
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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January 4, 2012
This is the second book I read for Sound and Music Healing class. It really opened up even more avenues and ways to explore the profound effects of sound and music on the human (and animal!) body.
A perfect accompaniment to the class, as what I walked away with was a wonderful reference to the concepts of sound and music through biology, neurology, chemistry and personal experiences.
What a world of possibilities! I read this first on the kindle so I could blaze through it before the class, then bought the physical book for ease of reference -- and for the CD, which gives examples in action.
I have yet to go back and listen to the CD, but expect even more enlightening experience. I am looking forward to creating soundtracks of my own to use my knowledge of different types of music not covered on the CD (I am more versed in genres other than classical)with what I've learned in the book.
A perfect accompaniment to the class, as what I walked away with was a wonderful reference to the concepts of sound and music through biology, neurology, chemistry and personal experiences.
What a world of possibilities! I read this first on the kindle so I could blaze through it before the class, then bought the physical book for ease of reference -- and for the CD, which gives examples in action.
I have yet to go back and listen to the CD, but expect even more enlightening experience. I am looking forward to creating soundtracks of my own to use my knowledge of different types of music not covered on the CD (I am more versed in genres other than classical)with what I've learned in the book.
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