Physically and emotionally, music moves us. I have never learnt to dance and the odd attempts to do so have fizzled out dismally. But I don’t really care. These days, if I feel like moving to the music, I just…
This inspiring article from the New York Times brilliantly captures how progressive hospitals in NYC have embraced both Music Therapy and Music Healing as a vital component of care and cure for patients and staff. __________________________________ The Healing Power of…
The Masters of Heavy Rock was the title of a bedroom wall poster taking pride of place in my brother’s bedroom ©1975. It featured, arguably the greatest rock Gods of all, Led Zeppelin. They were, however, just part of a…
Try being a musical human right now… Click this link and experience our simple, accessible web-based MindHarp. Open it in a separate window, switch off your email, social media and other potential distractions. Let’s go on a musical journey… If…
As book of the week Radio 4 is featuring Michael Spitzer’s newly published ‘The Musical Human’. Michael is a Musicologist, Beethoven expert and Professor from the University of Liverpool. When I heard him interviewed a couple of weeks ago, it…
As ever, the extraordinary power of engaging with music, never ceases to surprise us and one story from March moved us deeply. We have found that, within a couple of weeks of starting our MindHarp training course for practitioners (https://mindharp.world/courses),…
A thought Almost all people intuitively understand that music/sound is a ‘kinda magic’. Few understand that this is really true. Science has more and more research on the enormous influence sound and vibration has on ‘everything’ and more relevantly for us, on…
When we created the MindHarp the dream was to create a musical tool that would allow anyone to engage with musical sound. Simply put; we believe that the more people who actively on a more or less regular basis, engage…
We all love music, maybe through music we can all learn to love one another. Music is neutral, especially instrumental music. Lyrics added to music are one of the bridges that connect music to the other art forms. Lyrics give…
The Context: 850,000 people are living with dementia in the UK at present. This is set to rise to 1 million in 2025 The annual cost of dementia to the nation is £26.3bn which is a higher health and social…