Cognitive-Behavioral Neuroscientist, Medical Musician, Data Analytics, Mental Health, Aging Health, Precision Music Medicine, Consultant
Another medical musician must have in their knowledge base. It’s wonderful. This video begins with the fact that the heart maintains the “rhythm” of life. Indeed, musical pulse and rhythm directly affects and manipulates heart rate variability. This manipulation changes us. I always call rhythm the “flour in the cake”. I also tell medical musicians never, ever start a piece of music without establishing heart rate expectations in your listeners (or audience) without First establishing the pulse in your own mind that manifests in your music prescriptive delivery. Musical rhythm and pulse affects heart rate and changes it at a very subconscious level, but it’s very real and there’s a tremendous amount of research done on it. In any educational course in music medicine at least two semesters should include heart rate variability research. Understanding of this heart Structure and components and functionality, not to mention the output results of increases in dopamine, melatonin activity, inclinations response to offbeat rhythms, etc., etc. etc. is crucial to the development of a precision medical musician. End of story. Rhythm and heartbeat variability is the flour in the cake regarding Precision programming. Traditional Music therapy needs to be reborn in this regard. This practice must be standard application. Like a doctor washing their hands before they walk in to see a patient. What is the rhythm your patient needs and are you ready to deliver it? Rhythm and heart rate and music medicine is such a fundamental base knowledge. There’s no escaping it because it is the crux of how medicine works. This knowledge is fast and can have so many beautiful complexities, just as humans have so many beautiful potentials and complexities. All the other delights on top of course of melodic journeys, instrumental, timber and combinations, precious beauty of the human voice in delivering sound and textual messages. I am a seasoned professional master musician for many decades now, and have taken my journey into neuroscience, health, science mental science, and now data mining science in order to construct and deliver prescriptive music playlists on an individual level for patient health, trajectory, and to escort daily joys of purposeful living
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4moLinda Hayes Bennett, Ph.D. As a certified therapeutic clinical musician, I completely agree with you that understanding the importance of rhythm is fundamental when using music for medical purposes. Having a fundamental understanding of entrainment (when 2 or more independent rhythmic systems eventually match up) can also offer insight into how the external rhythms of music affect what I like to call the 3Bs - Breathing, Brainwaves and heartBeat - and how these internal rhythms entrain with each other. Yes, this is a bit oversimplified yet I find it helps to bring awareness to what is often an unconscious experience. Thank you for all the ways you continue to empower and inspire others with your experience and research!