But music therapy is a systematic and organized therapy and there are training courses to this end. Off the top of my head I would say that perhaps music would be useful to relieve stress or to put you in a better frame of mind, taking your mind off your problems; certainly it does that for me. Music therapy can do that and much more apparently: it promotes wellness, eases pain, helps in expression of feelings, enhances memory, helps improve communication skills and also helps in healing or physical rehabilitation. It can also, like the picture indicates, help relieve stress in newborns and help them stay healthy.

Now I would imagine that in case of music therapy what is one man’s meat may well be another man’s poison. By that I mean, that while one person find sound of a gurgling stream wonderful and stress relieving, I for one would actually find it stressful because I would keep thinking “Water’s being wasted somewhere, how do I stop that!”
I would also imagine that there are cultural connotations to music. For instance while a Chinese person may find Chinese music wonderful and uplifting, a person like me who has no knowledge or familiarity with Chinese music would have a fairly indifferent reaction to it thereby negating any therapeutic value of the music.

It is therefore that music therapy is highly individual oriented. It can include activities such as singing, listening, playing instruments, composition, moving to music, and music and imagery exercises. So, music therapy is developed on the basis on the subjects’ individual weaknesses and strengths, keeping in mind the effect that the music will have on that particular individual.

Music therapy also has general applications; like music is said to relive pain during dental procedures so a lot of dentists play music. Often certain work environments have music playing because it is seen to reduce stress while working. Music frequently accompanies meditation and yoga and it always accompanies aerobic and other exercises because it motivates you in your goal of mental and physical fitness.

If you are really interested in the idea of music therapy and would like to incorporate it in your everyday life, take a look here ; there are some interesting pointers about how you can use music to relive stress or when you need stimulation etc. Perhaps music therapy is not quite as odd as I originally thought. Your thoughts?

I think I need to take a break desperately, where I am just chilling out at the beach side on a hammock and reading all my favorite authors. Huh….Sound wonderful.

Dreams. Happens to all of us. Some of us enjoy them, some don’t mind them and then there are the few who are troubled by dreams. What are dreams saying to us? Are they saying anything at all? Is it a figment of imagination …? It has been a topic of debate and research for centuries now.

There are many perspectives one can take; that dreams are an exaggeration of emotion, pure imagination, a new perspective, future forecasts among many more. Now what would you think of the aforementioned? Would you agree that any one or two of the mentioned define what dreams are? Truth really is they are all true. As true as the fact one human being is unique to another. They work very differently for one person than the next hence there has been no single theory on what dreams interpretation. Lets look at why.

Dreams are a manifestation of our thoughts. That said, what thoughts we mull upon generally get looked at in greater colour and detail in our dreams. Fears exaggerated, joy personified and confusion amplified. Many times when we wake up with an uncanny feeling that a certain incident is going to occur it is normally a logical conclusion reached by your intellect which knows all aspects of the scenario. Like till you logically realised 2+2 = 4. Something you might have been mulling over your mind resolves for you by looking at different perspective or estimates a different outcome to a familiar event. Which is why many times or most of the times what we dream doesn’t come true, it only creates possible outcomes to a known scenario. It’s like you can or cannot die tomorrow. Choose one, both are true and valid possibilities.

It very important to understand that how one goes to bed or wakes up. It can affect things quite thoroughly. A few suggestions to that are: Don’t take anxiety into bed with you, if you are anxious don’t go straight to bed, especially if you aren’t sleepy. When anxious exhaust yourself, go for a long jog, or hit the gym and then sleep. While waking up it is vital that one doesn’t jump out of bed hastily and bolt to the bathroom. Once you wake up take a moment, sit on the side, breathe, let your body metabolism and your mind come up to normal then start your day. People who follow this have had wonders happen just by going-to and getting-up from sleep properly.

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There has been a lot of change in the trends of women’s lingerie which I have seen lately. The products have become more bright, colorful and bold. It is no longer seen as a product to be hidden, more and more designers are only lingerie designers. So what are you gals over there waiting for…..it’s time to change the lingerie wardrobe.

Thomas Beatie was born a woman (Tracy), then he Tran-gendered into a man by having reconstructive surgery to remove the breasts and taking testosterone hormone injections to grow facial hair and develop other male characteristics. OK so far, familiar enough story: Tran-gendering from one to another sex is getting less shocking and more common. But Thomas chose to keep the reproductive organs he was born with (I don’t know about the genitalia and was somewhat queasy to find out about that, so I didn’t). So since his wife Nancy (I think she was born a woman) could not bear children Thomas decided to go ahead and get pregnant by artificial insemination and is now expecting to give birth to his daughter soon. Here is a clip of him featured on Oprah:

This is apparently not the only instance of a man being pregnant; Mr. Lee Mingwei is also another famous pregnant man, who has elicited the following extreme reactions: One woman is quoted as having said: “This is against God. Mr. Lee is a sick man. Repent now before it’s too late. You sick, sick people. God will pay you back for this evil you have created. REPENT! REPENT!” another woman, herself pregnant was quoted as having said, “Go, Mr. Lee! All my prayers and best wishes to you. I’m so happy for you and your baby. I am six months pregnant myself, and I completely understand how excited you are to be going through this amazing process. Have a happy and healthy pregnancy.”

Another man is quite envious of the concept of a pregnant man and is quoted as having said, “I’ve dreamed about this my entire life. Sign me up! I think I’d be a fantastic father in every way possible. And now I can participate in literally every step of my child’s life … from the embryo on up!”

As of now though, there does not appear to be anyway that a man, who was born a man, can have children, so it is not as if we can as yet decide which one from among a conventional husband and wife can choose to have a baby.

While this is fairly shocking and somewhat unsettling simply because of the unfamiliarity of the concept for me, what Thomas says in that Oprah video gave me pause for thought: “its not a male or female desire to have a child, it is a human desire”. That it is, and for what it is worth, I wish these men a safe and healthy pregnancy and birthing.

In think that the main benefit of a holiday is being able to take a break from a daily routine, from structure, from the sameness that days can assume. With nothing in particular that has to be got done you can please yourself; seeing the sights is an option but not a must. I personally feel that you must not try and pack too much into a holiday or you lose out on the essence of a holiday, which is relaxation and spending quality time with the family.

If you try and do too much of this and that and the other thing as well, then it becomes too busy and then it’s a bit like work really. One day we may decide to do nothing except hang around and read or just lie around the hotel lounging in the pool or playing a game of some sort! If you are paying for a good hotel, be sure to make good use of its facilities! What is the point of paying for a good hotel if you were too rushed to enjoy the lovely pool or gym or other amenities.

It is never worth it to ‘do’ everything on the usual tourist itinerary; if it means jostling with too many crowds I say give it a miss! Instead concentrate on the unusual or that which is off the beaten track; I find that it is often far more rewarding! If there is a choice between a garden and a shopping mall, may I suggest the former over the latter?
If say you have a week off, plan to visit one or at the most two places in that time. I personally prefer to drive our own car to wherever it is that we decide to go. Both because I love to drive and also because it gives you the flexibility of stopping anywhere, for whatever amount of time, to take a detour, so stop to take in the sights, and basically just please yourself.

I firmly believe that the journey is as important as the destination, so take time to enjoy that as well. We saw some unexpected waterfalls in the hills and with no one to please but ourselves, we were able to take the time to stop and admire the scene and take pictures to our heart’s content! If there is a scenic route, take it, even if it is longer. We actually did that, and drove thru a game sanctuary, so driving thru the thick forest; we were rewarded by the sight of quite a few wild animals who were admittedly rather blasé about tourists.
Any interesting holiday ideas or stories that anyone would like to share?

This one I first read over at the gin blog, and that got me thinking about honor killings: “17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stabbed to death last month by her father for becoming infatuated with a British soldier serving in southern Iraq.” The father, reportedly stamped on, suffocated and stabbed his daughter. Not only is he unrepentant about his heinous act, he is still a free man and was supposedly congratulated by the police for his act instead of being arrested! Then a few years ago, a Pakistani father killed his daughter for marrying against his wishes; the father then proceeded to kill his other three daughters aged 12, 8 and 4 so that they may not dishonor him and his family by doing the same as their sister!

Apparently honor killings claim some 5000 lives a year according to a UN report and honor killings apply mostly to the women in the poorer countries where they are the most impoverished and the least empowered.

Now this one seems to be one that appears all too often in the Western Media, rather than honor killings, it is serial or other psychopathic killings: “a 15-year-old girl wearing her school uniform was found in the lift of Matheson Lang House on Baylis Road in Lambeth with at least 10 knife wounds to her front, neck and back.”

Another malaise the seems to stalk western society, perhaps because of breakup of the traditional family structure and the lack of support that is therefore available to young mothers, is characterized by this horrifying headline: Mother of Quadruplets charged with beating! “She was arrested on fourteen counts of child abuse. One son was hospitalized in a near-vegetative state. The other three children suffered skull fractures and broken bones. They were placed in foster care.” Apparently she was a single mother, who already had a six year old suffering from Downs when the quads were born.

Are these horrifying stories signs of a sick society or are they just aberrations that will help you and I check our own behavior and perhaps make us strive to be better people? Your thoughts?

They are simply awesome. These places look no less than a five star hotel. The property is beautiful; it looks so peaceful, and full of life. They are ideal places for a drug addict person to come out of his habit and enjoy the real life and be one with nature. There is so much more to life then to just destroy it with a puff of smoke.

If my post could help even 1 drug addict person to leave drugs and start life all over again, I would feel myself blessed.

Life is beautiful; it shouldn’t be wasted like this……….