by Russill Paul
Medical research now validates immense physiological benefits from chanting: lowered blood pressure, stabilized heart rate, improved Circulation and the production of endorphins, which are the body’s natural painkillers and mood enhancers. Music, too, is wonderfully therapeutic and employed in a wide range of applications today, including the treatment of Alzheimer’s, sleep disorders and Autism. The therapeutic use of music is a tradition that can be traced back to Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. Medical science also validates the benefits of Meditation in supporting healing processes that are preventive as well as curative.
Now, when you take the tremendous appeal of Yoga and the growing millions of practitioners across America, and you combine all these approaches (chanting + therapeutic music + Meditation + Yoga), you get The Yoga of Sound, (New World Library, May 2006), a holistic and evolutionary approach that addresses several unhealthy conditions of modern living and offers a “sound solution” to its problems.
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