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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Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. THE OF TAO . MUSIC Sound Psychology Using Music to Change Your Life mpo עית G JOHN M. ORTIZ , PH.D. THE TAO OF MUSIC. Front Cover.
Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. THE OF TAO . MUSIC Sound Psychology Using Music to Change Your Life mpo עית G JOHN M. ORTIZ , PH.D. THE TAO OF MUSIC. Front Cover.
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Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. PART THREE : SOCIAL ISSUES 16. Improving Communication 17. Companionship . . . 18. Relationship Issues 19. Romantic Intimacy 20. Motivating the Mind .. 21. How to Listen ...
Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. PART THREE : SOCIAL ISSUES 16. Improving Communication 17. Companionship . . . 18. Relationship Issues 19. Romantic Intimacy 20. Motivating the Mind .. 21. How to Listen ...
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Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. Chanting . Toning Appendix C : Special Topics Choosing One's Music The Spiral Sojourn . Your Special Place Inner Guide .. Bibliography Index .... About the Author 345 349 ...
Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. Chanting . Toning Appendix C : Special Topics Choosing One's Music The Spiral Sojourn . Your Special Place Inner Guide .. Bibliography Index .... About the Author 345 349 ...
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Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. today , I have not been able to find a book that effectively combines the techniques , ideas , and approaches that have yielded such positive results in my professional ...
Sound Psychology - Using Music to Change Your Life John M Ortiz. today , I have not been able to find a book that effectively combines the techniques , ideas , and approaches that have yielded such positive results in my professional ...
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... sound , to help improve our lives ; • Using well - known approaches , such as toning , chanting , and affirma- tions in psychomusical formats ; • Raising moment to moment awareness to common sounds to make these work for and with us ...
... sound , to help improve our lives ; • Using well - known approaches , such as toning , chanting , and affirma- tions in psychomusical formats ; • Raising moment to moment awareness to common sounds to make these work for and with us ...
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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