Music for Wellness Book - Use Music to Improve your Wellbeing (Book/Olm)

Berklee- Music for Wellness Book - Use Music to Improve your Wellbeing 

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Has music ever made you smile, cry, maybe even fall in love? Learn the many ways that music affects your mind, body, and spirit, and can enhance your wellbeing. Dr. Suzanne Hanser reveals how music creates flow and fulfilment, whether you are a music lover, musician, or therapist. Recordings of original music and personal stories from around the world offer poignant examples of how you can use music in your wellness journey. When you really feel the music, you can learn a lot about yourself and see the light! 208 pages. 

Learn how listening to and creating music can help you:

• Understand and use some of the core concepts of music therapy to help alleviate your distress and be a healthier, more satisfied person.
• Explore your personal musical history and the emotions and insights that music evokes.
• Find relief from stress and manage your moods.
• Inspire your motivation and creativity.
• Explore your spirituality and expand your self- awareness.
• Become more resilient and improve your self-care skills.
• Benefit from meaningful stories and music offering insight into your own health and wellness.

“When it comes to the field of music therapy, Suzanne Hanser is a master—and the perfect guide for a journey about how we can use music in our everyday lives to calibrate our emotions and to support well-being and health.”

— Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

“Suzanne Hanser has been awakening me to the power of music to transform, to enlighten, and to call forth the better angels of our nature. Now, in her new book, she has brought together a lifetime of mastery in the field of music therapy so that her wisdom is available to all of us. The book reflects her expansive consciousness in every way: it is brilliantly interactive, filled with gorgeous, original music, and fantastically culturally diverse. This is not just a book, it is an experience. I highly recommend it for all human beings!”

— Stephen Cope, Bestselling author of many books, including The Great Work of Your Life, and Scholar Emeritus at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health

“Dr. Hanser elucidates the holistic view of wellness through comfort, motivation, energy, creativity, and spirit. This work of art transcends scholarship. This depth and fund of knowledge should be required reading for all practitioners of music and wellness, the music connoisseur or the novice ready to embark on a remarkable journey of music and our life’s soundscapes.”

— Joseph Schlesinger, MD, Professor of Critical Care Anaesthesiology & Music, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

“Pioneer music therapist Suzanne Hanser gifts us with a brilliant healing musical adventure. Music for Wellness: Feel the Music, See the Light is a powerful source of inspiration and information for anyone who enjoys music and wishes to discover how to more fully engage with music to influence their mood and health. Kudos and gratitude to Suzanne and the beautiful contributors for this nourishing balm for the body, mind, and spirit!”

— Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, Former President of the Mind & Life Institute and Past President of the Society for Integrative Oncology

About the Author:

Suzanne B. Hanser is chair emerita and professor of music therapy at Berklee College of Music. She is past president of the World Federation of Music Therapy and National Association for Music Therapy. Dr. Hanser is the recipient of a National Research Service Award from NIA, the Sage Publications Prize, and the American Music Therapy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Her research focuses on clinical outcomes of music therapy protocols in integrative medicine, specifically chronic illness, oncology, dementia, pain and palliative care, and cardiology. Dr. Hanser is composer of Michio’s Musings, an interactive musixploration on piano. A Contemplation Garden of Music is a compilation of her performances and music-facilitated meditations on Native American flute, piano, hand chimes, and therapeutic harp.