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How it All Began
In the late 1980’s, I was studying Shiatsu as
well as a number of other holistic modalities and kept seeing
how our bodies related to music. I began writing music that
worked with the heart rate, brain wave patterns and the endocrine
system.
I found it fascinating. I was composing personal songs
for people and they would tell me how the music helped their
stress level or condition. Each song was so different and
unique. The music defied everything I had ever learned in
my musical training. I can honestly say that if I hadn’t
been open to what the body was telling me, this music would
never have been written. I was connecting musical dots to
a musical body. I was beginning to see the oneness and uniqueness
at the same time in everything. I was moving into a whole
new world. The unending musical story. I was in awe. I couldn’t
stop researching or writing this music.
Then, one day as I was walking my wonderful dog, Rufus, (part
Arctic wolf, part husky); I thought about writing music that
would help more than one person at a time.
I was becoming more knowledgeable in my understanding of the
body and how music could heal. My walks with Rufus brought
forth incredible revelations, especially after she had a 7-minute
death in 1991 because of an unfortunate run-in with a porcupine,
a van and a vet doing his best to save her by operating on
her. He didn’t know that she was a holistic dog and
gave her too much anesthesia.
I began transferring this information into music. At first
it was music to help people. I learned through studying Dr.
Royal Rife and Dr. Patricia Kerr's work, that certain frequencies,
notes and colours would benefit different parts of the body
and that our bodies would entrain to rhythm patterns. I then
began putting music together using scientific and mathematical
patterns. Some of my music involves the Fibonacci Golden Mean
Rule, tempo's that would start slowing the heart rate down,
and musical notes that would activate certain parts of the
body, brain wave patterns, the integration of the left and
right brain, the mind, and emotions.
My journey
began with Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease). New
doors began to open. When I played Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease)
for the first time, the rhythm patterns were so unusual to
me that my body got pulled to one side and to my surprise,
I actually got pulled off the piano bench and landed on the
floor. I haven’t heard of this happening to anyone else
but I do have a warning written on the label DO NOT
PLAY WHILE DRIVING.
Rufi had a wonderful vet, Dr. Sharon Kopinak who was really
interested in the music I was writing. With every song I wrote,
I would ask Dr. Kopinak to play it for the animals and see
how they would respond to it.
She discovered that Pet Ease
would calm her animals down during a thunderstorm. It also
quieted them in kennels. Transcension calmed down animals
that were
aggressive and didn't really want her there. Within about
10 minutes or so, the animal and the owner were passed out
on the couch and she was able to work with the animal.
The anxiety and fear that the animal felt had dissipated into
gentleness. The owner was surprised. Dr. Kopinak then started
to give the tapes out to her clients and I started receiving
some amazing letters and phone calls about how the tapes were
working with their animals.
In the1990’s, I was teaching Grade 4 and 5, in a private
school. I was teaching a number of students with learning
challenges and A.D.D., A.D.H.D. I decided to play Infinite
Joy (aka Pet Ease)
quietly in the classroom while my students were working and
see how they would respond to it. To my surprise, when I played
the music, the class would settle down. The students would
focus and concentrate on the task at hand.
Psychologists would come into
my classroom to test and evaluate my students. They were amazed
that these students were so settled as they told me that music
disrupts them. I would say, “Do these students seem
bothered by this music?” They were all bewildered and
so was I but it worked and that was all that mattered to me.
Another interesting thing happened.
If the music stopped or I wasn’t playing it, I would
hear the students humming the music to themselves. You would
think they would get tired of it. I would ask if they wanted
the music back on and they would say yes. I couldn’t
figure it out. But I didn’t question it too much because
I was grateful that it was working.
The
Scientific Research
One day, I received a phone call from a representative
of the National Research Council of Canada. They had heard
about me through other sources and wanted to sponsor a 6 -
month study on the music Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease).
I was nervous about this but I was also very excited by the
prospect of it all. I ended up having the music tested at
Brock University in The Neurology Department in St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada on 200 people. Some were University students,
some over 50, some with head injuries, some with Alzheimer’s.
I sent Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease) down with
a variety of other styles of music e.g. classical, jazz, rock,
white noise and even a rendition of Infinite Joy (aka
Pet Ease) in which I put the rhythm pattern into
a rhythm our body is used to. I also changed the key Halfway
through this research project; the researcher asked if I could
write music for head-injured. This was when Infinite
Mind 1 and 2 (aka Training Freedom 1 and 2) were
created.
This research resulted in a 28-page summary.
Here is an overview of the Scientific Results:
Research by The Neurology Department at Brock University
sponsored by The National Research Council of Canada
The Results of Infinite Joy and Infinite Mind
in Our Learning Process:
Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease) has been
researched at Brock University through the Cognitive Research
Laboratory in a very thorough 6 month study using the elderly,
head-injured, University students & school aged children.
The results 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 (aka Training Freedom) 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 & listening to Infinite Joy.
How and Why Infinite Joy Works:
When Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease) is being played, our beta
and 4th stage delta brain waves are equally activated. This
activation continues for nearly 12 hours after. According
to the neurologist’s research, in 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, felling
overwhelmed and stressed out, difficulty on focusing on the
task at hand, and a slowness to heal.
When Infinite Joy (aka Pet Ease), in
the waking or sleeping process, is being played, both patterns
of beta (our conscious mind) and 4th stage delta (our deepest
sleep) are being equally
activated which results in focusing and concentrating, as
well as healing.
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