by talesin 59 Replies latest jw friends
This is another from Isao Tomita and another from Debussy, surely one of the most beautiful songs ever written or heard on our planet. This version sounds as though it has come to us from the stars themselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iXLMEi4Kp0&feature=related
for you, Heath ....
lol, simul-post !!
love you!
you are my sista, from another mista! just saying, sweet thang .............. :)))
I love that song from Michael, thank you.
Isao in his studio. What a treat:
I have this CD and listening to it by candle light and using aromatherapy helps, too. I like to apply Badger Sleep Balm, too:
Dan Gibson's Solitudes Nature Sound Collection:
Thunderstorms in the Wilderness
Talesin,
There is no Snoop Dog, it's Snoop Lion now. He changed his name and genre. He's doing raggae now.
I don't go for anecdotal evidence. I want to see peer-reviewed, double-blind experiments! But there's good news; music therapy, or meditation does have a proven effect.
A couple years ago I attended a Chronic Disease Self-Management course developed by Stanford University. Most of the course was spent on teaching us to trouble-shoot, try something new, and re-evaluate on a regular basis. This takes all the emotion and angst out of the equation, and helped us concentrate on productive solutions.
We were given a meditation tape as a sort of graduation gift at the end of the course. Now, my chronic condition doesn't have anything to do with pain, but I am getting older and I am experiencing chronic pain now and again. I've been caught at work without an anelgesic in sight. I found a you-tube equivalent of that meditation technique, and plugged it in while I worked.
Five Minute Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain Management.mp4
It adapts a buddist technique, I believe, where the site, texture, and depth of the pain is acknowledged, but then is set aside.
I swear it helps.
I don't go for anecdotal evidence. I want to see peer-reviewed, double-blind experiments! But there's good news; music therapy, or meditation does have a proven effect.
It's also very helpful and encouraging when people you know personally have benefited from music and can tell you in what ways. We all know chocolate is soothing and calming. Science has backed it up, but we could have told them that anyway.
I've said my whole life that music and laughter have saved me. It turns out there is science research on the chemical level to back that up.
When I prepared for my son's Jesse's birth, we were encouraged to use music to help ease some of the discomfort of labor.
I am leery of anecdotal evidence when people reject conventional therapies in favour of a trend. For instance, there's a pig farmer here in Alberta who has found a vitamin cure for Bipolar Disorder. The idea of dozens of Bipolar patients going off their meds gives me the shudders.
This is a bit of a personal topic for me... I'm 30 - I've had a combination of chronich - neuropathic and chronic / actue pain for most of my life due to severe - burns as a kid - but the last 10 or so years has been the worse. I went from being a fairly active person to someone who isn't able to walk more than a couple hundred metres at a time, let alone playing sport of any kind. Anyway - I've always listened to a lot of music and can believe that there is some theraputic benefits. Some music - especially if played too loudly can seriously make me a lot more aware of my pain at times, and other music may sometimes help to soothe a bit, I spose.
However - I have to say that it gets on my nerves a little bit when people get on their high horse about pain medication. Yes, obviously a life without medication is better - but hey - a life without pain is better yet - and that is not with in reach for many people. Over the years - I have been VERY open minded in trying to find an alternative to god-awful pain meds - such as: clinical psychology and hypnotysm, acupuncture, massage (I still get regular massage - it hel[ps, but isn't a cure), alcohol (doesn't help), weed (does help, but for me no better than being on any other med), irridology, physio, and however many other alternative therapies that I can't even remember the name of.
At the end of it all - I'm still in pain, and still have to take medication if I want to hold down a job. I could stop taking it - however I wouldn't be able to work and the only way to handle the pain would be to stay in - probably in bed most of the day. This would surely kill me quicker.
So here I am, now 30, been seeing my current pain clinic for 2 years now. The bottom line is - I probably want to have kids one day within the next few years, but this isi totally out of the question. I can't be pregnant on the meds for a start - and even if they said it was safe I wouldn't - and I am going to struggle with being 15kg heavier pregnant, let alone lack of sleep and getting up for night feeds when the baby comes. I now have to consider having my foot amputated, learning about prosthetics etc. and learning to re-walk, which is scary - but exciting if it means my pain is dramatically reduced... Then again - there's the risk of phantom pain, so I could lose my foot, have most of the pain anyway and still need to take drugs to control the nerves.
Or should I just stop worrying about it and go an put on some nice music...??? ;)
