What Doctors Don't Tell YouOne in four people is affected by mental illness at some stage. While minor mental "unwellness" often remains unrecognised and untreated, severe illnesses are often treated inappropriately with po ...
Christine Stevens MSW MT-BC"Sound" is within the very definition of health. According to Webster's Dictionary, health is "being sound in mind and body." Other terms, such as being at a "higher vibration" and being "in tune" point towards the role of music in wellness. The...
The Community Drum Circle, in the context of how we are using it within our non-professional hand drumming culture, is the most basic and simple use of the drum and rhythm. It is the use of a rhythm based event as a tool for unity. A community drum...
Barry Bittman MDIt's time we as a society establish a new perspective for recreational music-making, not as a frill, but as an integral tool for the maintenance and preservation of our health and well-being. In "Got Rhythm? the second of a 2-part series on...
Are you musical? In "Got Rhythm? the first of a 2-part series on recreational music-making" Barry Bittman, M.D. relates how most people shy away from even volunteering a response to this question...at least initially. Yet when given the chance to...
Deep within the essence of who we are there's a sound, a vibration, an emanation that expresses life from every cell. As a physician focused on integrative medicine within the traditional healthcare setting Dr. Barry Bittman in "Deep Within:...
