How does music make you feel? Inspired? Happy? Contemplative? Whatever the feeling, it is based on emotion. Music has an impact on our mood, our memory, performance and wellbeing. Who hasn’t found it easier to run a little further, or work a little faster to keep up...
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise... Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise... Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
How singing can change the brain: Tania de Jong at TEDx Melbourne.
I first met Tania de Jong at a conference in Sydney a couple of years ago. I was impressed not just by her beautiful soprano singing voice, but in addition, her warmth and compassion for others.As a follow up from Mental Health Week it seems appropriate to continue to...
Should we listen to music at work?
It depends.If you are in customer service and a customer is unable to get your attention because you are lost in the music belting out from your earphones, then no.But if you are in a work environment where other extraneous noise, such as the guy in the next cubicle...
Music lifts our mood and performance
Over the last few months I have spent a considerable amount of time in writing mode, putting together new material for workshops, writing a new book, and keeping up with my blog. All of which require me to sit at my desk in front of my computer.Now my brain works best...
How early music lessons builds stronger brains
There appears there is a payoff for all those music lessons you and your family may have had to endure when you were a child. A study recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that learning to play a musical instrument before the age of seven has a...
Why walking to the beat can help your brain.
Have you ever noticed that people in gyms or running around the park, often work out while listening to music? And no, it's not just because it's boring pounding away by yourself. Having a beat to walk or run to, makes it easier to keep on going at a steady pace....