The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your LifeLike millions of other people, when you're feeling blue, you might listen to music to reflect your feelings, or to cheer you up. Dr. Ortiz has focuses on this basic impulse and created an effective, systematic way to deal with life's vagaries. He offers Musical Menus of carefully selected songs and melodies, reflective of specific emotional states that you can use to progress from identifying your pain to healing it. He provides creative exercises, koans (mediative questions), anecdotes, and case histories that reveal the transformative power of music. Dr. Ortiz uses behavioral, cognitive, and affective psychological techniques incorporated with toning, chanting, affirmations, and visualization to help you deal with issues such as chronic pain, lack of self-esteem, depression, anger and more. You can use music to change your life, and Dr. Ortiz shows you how! |
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... Natural Release Exercise 38. Toning While Making Love .. Exercise 39. Toning During a Stroll . 269 300 334 . 340 346 350 351 351 Exercise 40. The Spiral Sojourn 362 Exercise 41. Accessing Your Inner Guide .. 373 Musical Menus Musical ...
... Natural Release Exercise 38. Toning While Making Love .. Exercise 39. Toning During a Stroll . 269 300 334 . 340 346 350 351 351 Exercise 40. The Spiral Sojourn 362 Exercise 41. Accessing Your Inner Guide .. 373 Musical Menus Musical ...
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... natural abilities as a musician to help peo- ple " tune in " to their inner resources and achieve harmony in their lives . Over the years , I have also witnessed how complementing my clinical work and personal life - style with ...
... natural abilities as a musician to help peo- ple " tune in " to their inner resources and achieve harmony in their lives . Over the years , I have also witnessed how complementing my clinical work and personal life - style with ...
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... natural , positive , and pro - active ptin- ciples , and be presented in a straightforward and simple manner . Finally , I realized that I needed to write the book I was looking for . BEFORE THERE CAN BE SOUND THERE MUST BE VIBRATION ...
... natural , positive , and pro - active ptin- ciples , and be presented in a straightforward and simple manner . Finally , I realized that I needed to write the book I was looking for . BEFORE THERE CAN BE SOUND THERE MUST BE VIBRATION ...
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... natural simplicity . Flowing with nature . " Being , " rather than " ttying . " While many authors have attempted to define or describe the Tao for Western readers , the primary consensus appears to be that it cannot be aptly described ...
... natural simplicity . Flowing with nature . " Being , " rather than " ttying . " While many authors have attempted to define or describe the Tao for Western readers , the primary consensus appears to be that it cannot be aptly described ...
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... natural melody . It was soft music , containing , as well , all the discords of nature . And that was right , for nature is not only harmonious ; she is also dreadfully contradictoty and chaotic . The music was that way , too : an out ...
... natural melody . It was soft music , containing , as well , all the discords of nature . And that was right , for nature is not only harmonious ; she is also dreadfully contradictoty and chaotic . The music was that way , too : an out ...
Contents
Depressed Moods | 3 |
Pain | 29 |
SelfEsteem | 37 |
Stress | 51 |
Anger | 61 |
Sleeplessness | 77 |
Control | 87 |
Relaxation | 93 |
Being Versus Trying to Be | 261 |
Clearing the Mind | 267 |
Rhythmic Synchronicity | 275 |
Psychological Noise and Masking | 281 |
Contextual Cuing | 287 |
Acoustic Memory | 291 |
Expectations | 293 |
Whys | 303 |
Memory Recall | 105 |
Time Management | 111 |
Grief and Loss | 119 |
GrowthChange | 125 |
Procrastination | 133 |
Aging | 141 |
Physical Exercise and Music | 151 |
Improving Communication | 165 |
Companionship | 173 |
Relationship Issues | 177 |
Romantic Intimacy | 183 |
Motivating the Mind | 201 |
How To Listen Educating the Ear | 213 |
Centering Silence | 223 |
Creativity | 233 |
HeAr and Now | 243 |
Letting Go | 249 |
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The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology : Using Music to Change Your Life John M. Ortiz No preview available - 1997 |
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