This video excerpt, featuring Henry
from ALIVE INSIDE, offers a beautiful, inspiring example of the
healing, normalizing power of MUSIC!
Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a nursing home. To his and the staff’s surprise many residents suffering from memory loss seem to “awaken” when they are able to listen to music from their past. ... more
Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a nursing home. To his and the staff’s surprise many residents suffering from memory loss seem to “awaken” when they are able to listen to music from their past. ... more
It reminds me of the ongoing discussion
about keeping/dropping music classes and activities in our schools.
Maybe this report of Henry, one of riper years, will help make the
case for continuing to have music available to those of greener
years.
The following thoughts were shared
regarding ALIVE INSIDE:
[Music is] the quickening art ~Kant (quoted by Dr. Sacks)
Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience. It speaks to us in a different language and arouses every emotion. It connects us all, it is a force that ignites our souls...Telling a story of hope and beauty, [ALIVE INSIDE] follows Dan as he discovers the power music has to “awaken” minds most others consider dormant and deteriorating. ~ximotionmedia.com
[Music] gives me feeling of love .. I feel a band of love, of dreams. ...The Lord came to me - made me a holy man - I'm a holy man so He gave me these sounds... ~Henry
[Music] restored [Henry] to himself ...[he] reacquired his identity ...[Music helps] animate, organize and bring a sense of identity back to people... ~Dr. Oliver Sacks
No project I have ever worked on has changed me as much as this story. It is my hope that this film awakens people's hearts and helps make it possible to bring music to those in nursing homes, people who don't even know how deeply they need music's gifts. ~Michael Rossato-Bennet, filmmaker
The reason this video captured my
interest is because of my experience of music and study of music's
spiritual nature. Just as a dormant mind is not Henry, discord is not
music. Health and music operate according to applied laws of Science
and science. Laws of science and of Science must be obeyed consistently and applied radically
in order for the expected outcome of music or Health to be realized.
To conclude, here is the opening quotation in context:
...discords of corporeal sense must yield to the harmony of spiritual sense, even as the science of music corrects false tones and gives sweet concord to sound...__________
Music is the rhythm of head and heart. Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine. ~Mary Baker Eddy
LINKS:
Post is from G+: +the SCIENCE ofHEALTH
Link to G+ Post: Music and Memory
YouTube channel: MusicandMemory1
Twitter: @AliveInsideFilm
Project: http://www.musicandmemory.org/
NOTE: ALIVE INSIDE is a production of Ximotion Media,
dedicated to expanding the well-being of us all.
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