Music Kaleidoscope for Health and Healing

Music Kaleidoscope for Health and Healing

By Lorie Pulliam, Bella Coola Canada 🇨🇦

Neuroscience is my trade and music is my scientific vibe. Music when associated with the chemistry of the brain is like a kaleidoscope of vibration for me. Pulsing, overlapping with the number of beats that are in”tune” to my heart beating. Music creates a change to my mood and pours into my neutron base of memory and the need to feel safe, peaceful and content.

Music, like nature does not care about my actual stressors. Music meets me where I am at. Music serves me, either listening, breathing, singing or dancing to it’s low and high notes. It is about the HERTZ for me.

A playlist that dissects my intelligence always starts with 432 Hertz of Pachelbel inD Minor. This pushes away my work day and allows me space to let go of all the noise. It evokes a memory of walking with my father, arm and arm just to be given away to my partner for life in marriage.

I move on to the sound of Lady Antebellum for my cerebellum, singing a track called Ocean. A powerful song with lyrics that remind me not to give up hope in the face of adversity. It calms me knowing that if things were bad I could step into this song and turn inward. The song has it all from piano to harmony, the angelic and melodic voice of a true artist. If I need to cry I do.

Then the deeper relaxation comes as I travel in my mind from an Beta brain wave to an Alpha. In a few short moments I will only hear the music of Enya with the beautiful song called Time. I think this song reminds me that I can take time, have time to be calm, be myself. I protect my thoughts now and time stands still. This timeless song has been enjoyed by over 174 million people, so it is serious healing.

My final phase comes from a chant. The first time I played this I felt some overwhelming anxiousness as it was an entirely new world. Now hearing these deep and guttural songs I feel all tension in my body gone. The vibration of base tones makes me feel a powerful pull to my breathing. Heart rate drops another 15 beats or more in seconds. I go somewhere. I migrate to Tibetan Monks singing from Wild Films India.

My musical wind down is always about training my mind to feel my heart. Knowing the last thing I say before bed is: “I have done all I can do today”. I have earned my rest and I will sleep soundly with no past or future. I am here now, feeling gratitude to face the next day strong and refreshed.

My BEATS headphones 🎧 go on and my old favourites come to me, a reflection of my baby boomer age. These will go to my subconscious mind as I rest in the Delta pathway of sweet dreams. Musical journey of artistry and love as I sleep.

Joanie MITCHELL * SIMON and GARFUNKEL* Joan BAES* James TAYLOR*

Israel KAMAKAWIWO’OLE * John LENNON * David BOWIE * Janis IAN

It goes on an on… Nightie-night.