| [FNAME] | | | | A music therapy instructor from Yale University tells a |
| Researchers throughout the world are reporting | | | | breakthrough story about Jerry, a 26-year-old man |
| intriguing new ways about how sound vibration heals | | | | who wouldn't speak, whose mental age was between |
| the body, mind, spirit and the environment. The words | | | | 2 and 8 and who threw extremely self-destructive |
| people choose to speak and the music people listen to | | | | tantrums. Jerry was so transformed by music therapy |
| have profound power to decrease pain, draw people | | | | that he was able to free himself from his "autistic |
| out of emotional and mental isolation and even clear | | | | mold" and create a way to support himself in the |
| polluted water. And scientists are discovering that | | | | world. What'd he do? |
| certain deep space sounds are amazingly similar to the | | | | Pairing up with a graphic designer, Jerry launches a |
| sounds of dolphins, Tibetan bowls and human choirs. | | | | profitable greeting card company. Jerry writes many |
| Why Is this Important to You? | | | | of the messages and helps design the cards. Aptly, |
| Because you can use music, song, vibration and words | | | | they name the company "Flew the Coop." |
| to dramatically affect your own health and the | | | | Trippy Space Sounds |
| well-being of other people. The impact, potential and | | | | What do the sounds of dolphins, human choirs and |
| mystery of the healing power of sound is | | | | Tibetan bowls* have in common? The sounds they |
| demonstrated in the following heart-warming true | | | | make are uncannily similar to tones found in outer |
| stories. | | | | space. |
| Wake Up and Dance, Little Suzy | | | | While examining the recordings of spacecrafts |
| Do you remember the movie "Awakenings?" Based | | | | Voyager I and II at the California Institute for Human |
| on a true story, the film features the work of | | | | Science, scientists discover that sounds produced by |
| neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks with Parkinson's disease | | | | the rings of Uranus are virtually identical to those |
| patients. Many of these patients whose bodies had | | | | produced by Tibetan bowls. Sounds emitted by the |
| been immobile for decades from the effects of | | | | planet Jupiter strongly compare to the high-pitched |
| Parkinson's began groovin' to the sounds of music. | | | | cries of dolphins. And sounds from the smallest moon |
| Patients who had not left their wheelchairs for years, | | | | of Uranus resemble vocal choirs. |
| got up and began dancing to certain types of music. | | | | Researchers believe that this similarity is no |
| After the success of these patients, Sacks, teamed | | | | coincidence. The cosmic vibrations of dolphins, bowls |
| up with the music director from the Institute for | | | | and choirs are currently being used to stimulate |
| Physical and Neurologic Function and has been using | | | | alignment and healing at the cellular level. |
| music as therapy with miraculous results. According to | | | | "Tibetan bowls" are used in The Dream Workshops to |
| the music director, patients who can't walk "bound out | | | | assist people to relax plus the bowl's vibration gently |
| of their chairs and start dancing as long as the music is | | | | helps "break up" old patterns of behavior that are no |
| present. For people who have motor problems, music | | | | longer useful or healthy. |
| acts as a catalyst." | | | | Rockabye Baby |
| Potent Prayer Power | | | | Hospitals report that newborns who are sung or |
| When a Buddhist priest prayed for an hour over the | | | | spoken to on a regular basis go home 3-5 days earlier |
| polluted water in a lake behind a dam in Japan, the | | | | and weigh more than babies who aren't exposed to |
| crystalline structure of the water changed from | | | | specific periods of adult speech or song. 50% of |
| malformed and distorted to one of immense beauty | | | | women who listen to music during childbirth don't need |
| and power. The lake was transformed into a healthy | | | | anesthesia. |
| source of pure water. A distinctly visible aura | | | | We are only hearing the first few bars in the |
| appeared around the water crystals in photographs. | | | | symphony of healing that awaits humanity as we open |
| Autistic Man "Flew the Coop" | | | | to the dynamic harmonious effects of sound. |