RESEARCH
There has
been a lot of positive research on how music enhances the
memory and the learning process. Researchers have discovered
how music can reduce stress and how it
can change brainwave patterns. New discoveries are being
made all the time.
Why
does music have this profound effect on us?
The reason
is because we are music and each of us walks to our own
tune and rhythm. Let’s compare some of the different
aspects of the music to our bodies, minds, emotions, soul
and spirit.
In music,
we have various components that composers use to create
music. Our body also has similar components that create
us.
Music needs
notes, tones, and a melody. Our body is made up of an endocrine
system around which the frequency of certain notes and colours
help us to stay healthy and balanced. So we each have our
own tune or frequency that we vibrate with. In the 1920’s,
Dr. Royal Rife did extensive research in the area of frequencies
and disease.
Music
has rhythm – a beat or a pulse. Musicians
call this tempo. Our body’s beat is our heart that
keeps our blood flowing correctly. Our heart beat speeds
up when we become excited, when we run or exercise just
the same as the beat in music becomes faster as the tempo
is increased. Our heart slows down when we rest and sleep
just as the music when the tempo decreases.
Our brainwaves
work on a rhythmic pattern as well.
Brainwaves are categorized in 4 categories :
Beta - (13- 40 cycles per second),
Alpha - (8-13 cycles per second)
Theta - (4-7 cycles per second)
Delta - (1/2 - 4 cycles per second)
I started
studying and researching the effects of music which optimize
our body, emotions and brain wave patterns in 1986 and I
began writing music using this information.
In the early
‘90’s, I wrote music for my Grade 4 and 5 class
which predominately were A.D.D., A.D.H.D. and Learning Challenged
students. I realized that these students were my creative
right brainers. For a lot of them their challenge was focus
and concentration. Art, Music, Phys. Ed, and anything creative
was a lot easier than reading, spelling, grammar and math.
A lot of teachers and parents were having trouble understanding
that these students needed to move around to learn. The
constant fidgeting and outbursts would drive others to distraction.
So I wrote
Infinite Joy. It calmed the classroom down. The students
were focusing and concentrating. They were getting down
to the task at hand. They were completing their work. I
was amazed. So were other adults. So was The National Research
Council of Canada.
The National
Research Council of Canada, supported a seven month intensive
research project with The Neurology Department at Brock
University in the Cognitive Research Laboratory to study
the effects of Infinite Joy with the elderly, brain injured,
students with learning difficulties and university students.
This study
resulted in writing Infinite Mind Vol 1 & Vol
2
(known
as Infinite Mind 1 and 2 for animals) for the brain-injured
but it ended up doing much more.
The
Results of Infinite Joy and Training Freedom in Our Learning
Process:
Infinite Joy definitely showed that in the elderly, head-injured
and in children, there was a remarkable improvement in cognition
activities (i.e. focus, attention and concentration). The
results for Infinite Mind showed that in the elderly, head-injured
and students, there was a remarkable improvement in the
Memory activities (i.e. Implicit Memory- unaware retrieval
and Explicit Memory-deliberate recollection). The head-injured
response became predictable in every case. The EEG showed
an increase in specific brain wave activity, (while this
music was playing, before and after learning), which did
not show up using other music. These changes in the brain
wave patterns are not only due to learning, but they also
reflect changes in the EEG as a function of the interaction
between learning and listening to Infinite Joy.
How and Why Infinite
Joy Works:
When Infinite Joy is being played, our beta (conscious mind)
and 4th stage delta (our deepest sleep) brain waves are
equally activated. According to the neurologists research,
in the 4th stage delta, protein is assimilated which helps
the learning take place. If we are over 50(depending on
our biological clock), stressed or in ill-health, the tendency
is not to move into that 4th stage delta sleep. The results
are forgetfulness, feeling overwhelmed and stressed out,
difficulty in focusing on the task at hand, and a slowness
to heal.
When Infinite Joy, in the waking or sleeping process, is
being played, both patterns of beta mind and 4th stage delta
are being equally activated which results in focusing and
concentrating, as well as healing.
At the same
time, my vet was playing the music and found that it helped
settle her animals in the kennel during a thunder storm.
The music calmed the animals and their owners when they
came to her clinic. The music did much more as you will
see when you read the testimonies.
Infinite
Joy has been renamed Pet Ease for the animals.
The formulas and patterns are the same but the ocean sounds
in the background have been removed as alot of animals fear
the ocean.
