Category: Music
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Sing to lift your heart.
Our hearts are weighed down with the sorrow of life events and singing together builds unity and lifts our heart by releasing the weight of past sadness . Improve your listening The voice only contains what the ear can hear. Therefore, to improve the flexibility and richness of your voice, improve your listening. Hearing and…
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Nursery Rhymes and their Meaning
These seemingly childish rhymes have their roots based in historic fact. Many people have researched the origin of traditional nursery rhymes which have been part of children’s lives for hundreds of years and these familiar rhymes have existed for centuries. Nursery rhymes began to be printed in England as early as 1570. The verses…
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Bring My Daddy Back
In my previous blogs about my work with children, I have emphasised my belief that when children are given an opportunity to direct their play without adult control, they are more likely to tap into their own unique self-healing mechanism and direct their play in a way that would give them the healing they needed…
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Fairytales, Astrology and Enchantment in Relation to Child Directed Creative Play
This is an excerpt from an article written in collaboration with Sandra Lamb Kilburn, a medical astrologer whose work enhances applied clinical practice at the Living Memory Research Trust . The article explores astrological psychology and specific astrological chart indicators. A detailed case study of child directed creative play sessions demonstrates their application in a…
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Little Drummer Boy
Sam was eight years old with a diagnosis of Down’s syndrome. He attended a local primary school and received daily help from his support assistant within the classroom. Sam’s limited understanding of language, meant that he expressed himself using single words only i.e. names of familiar people, objects and actions. To help him communicate,…
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Energy Field Alignment : An Agent Of Change
This updated blog was first written in 2006 but so much has changed since then. Hopefully, in the current turmoil, my words will encourage you to reduce your own stress levels and discover your true purpose in life. In the 1990s, in search of an understanding of spirituality, I began my own healing journey. Healing…
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Richard’s Ash Wednesday Pilgrimage
Music touches our hearts when words fail. It allows healing to take place by altering the vibrational field within a room. It can reduce the debilitating effect of a potentially stressful environment and lessens the impact of colds and ear infections during the early months of language acquisition. This research is documented in the Sensory…
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Susie and Chopin
Susie, a woman in her forties had learning disabilities and had difficulty expressing herself. Her mother, with whom she had lived, had passed away two years earlier and since that time Susie had lived in a residential home with four other women she hadn’t previously known. Susie was referred to me because the care staff…
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Vocal Toning: Rainbow Chakra Tones
Toning is an ancient and powerful method of using the voice. The toning process energises the brain and stimulates and regenerates the central nervous system to activate the body’s own self-healing mechanism. Ancient cultures in both the northern and southern hemisphere understood the law of vibration and recognised sound as energy in motion, acknowledging that…
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A Musical Memory
Music has had a marked impact on the life of many of my clients with learning disabilities. I particularly remember one lady, who was referred to me because, although she was forty- four, she had never spoken. However, staff in her residential home believed that Jean understood most of what was said to her. One…