Self-Care Concerts
Self-Care Concerts is a program of music and meditation designed to enhance the wellness aspects that listening to live music can offer you and your team. There is a wealth of scientific evidence that listening to live music can lower your heart rate, boost your immune system, reduce symptoms of depression, improve your sleep and cognitive skills, replace cortisol with dopamine, and activate all areas of your brain. This guided experience of music and meditation will take place over the course of an hour, and the music will include pieces by Bach, Hagen, Grieg, Massenet, Mozart, and others.
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In a review by Prof. Daniel J. Levitin of McGill University’s Psychology Department, listening to music was found to improve the body’s immune system function, reduce levels of cortisol (the stress hormone), and was even found to be more effective than prescription drugs in reducing anxiety prior to surgery.
“Music and the Brain:” University of Central Florida’s class and research.
Pediatrics: The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants
Wired: How Does Music Affect Your Brain? Every Imaginable Way
Music reduces pain and increases functional mobility in fibromyalgia.
Music and Health by Harvard Medical School