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Healing with Music

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6 Wonderful Effects of Listening to Music During Pregnancy

Benefits of Music for Babies and Mothers During Pregnancy

Music during pregnancy is an important topic. What you listen to while pregnant can, in fact, impact your baby (and you) in several important ways. Our guest post today is from Curtis Dean of Sage Music School: Music is known to have a lot of benefits to people. It can help you relax, sooth your negative emotions and even make you feel better. But did you know that there are special be[...]

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Working With PolyChrome (Desert) Jasper – My Results

How to Work with Polychrome Jasper

I've been working with different crystals each week to see if they bring me any "opportunities," documenting my results here. So far I've done Blue Apatite, Blue Kyanite, and now Polychrome Jasper (I like the name "Desert Jasper" way more so that's what I'm calling it from here on. So far, this has been the most effective crystal in this process! Here is my diary of what happened that[...]

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Working with Blue Kyanite to Improve Psychic Abilities & Bring Opportunities

I'm putting these "diary posts" on my blog because on my YouTube channel, I started a project to see if crystals do anything. My first post is here and is about Blue Apatite. My goal: To see if crystals bring me opportunities, specifically in music and/or my blog. This is week two, so let's see where I'm at! Working with Blue Kyanite Here is my first video where I discussed my p[...]

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How Therapy Can Help Musicians With Mental Health

How musicians can use therapy to improve their art

Today's guest post is by Better Help, an online therapy platform I myself have used. Although this is a sponsored post, I would not endorse something I don't believe in or haven't tried myself. Everyone needs therapy, but musicians especially might need help with this. Musicians are feelers. If you are in the music industry and you’re expressing yourself through this medium, you’r[...]

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7 Important Self-Care Tips for Struggling Songwriters and Musicians

Self care tips for Creatives

As a basic white millennial bitch, "self-care" to me means painting my nails while watching Harlots on Hulu. But let's peel away the commercialism and focus on self-care, specifically for those of us in the music industry. I'm going to try all of these and I encourage you to do the same! Let's care for ourselves and each other! Self Care for Musicians If you're reading this,[...]

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10 Ways Music Education Stimulates a Child’s Brain

Music Education Benefits

My guest post today is by Ronald Ross (author bio below). Hope you enjoy! Many educational experts agree that introducing music education in schools and at home have great results in the development stages of children. Music is a universal language and is also beneficial in a child's education. Listening to music uses our entire brain. Hence, playing an instrument, learning to read[...]

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How to Help Your Creative Child Survive High School and College

Important Tips to Help Creative Children in School

I was born a sensitive, INFJ, artistic weirdo. I didn’t play with dolls, I had a bag of plastic trumpets that I pretended to play (no one ever bought me a real trumpet, but it was probably for the best given how annoying I was with the fake ones). Elementary school was a blur. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and that kind of engulfed most of my k-5 years. Middle school was an abs[...]

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How Crystal Therapy Helped Me Become a Better Singer

How Crystal Therapy Can Make You a Better Singer

This is a final update to my crystals project! I was going to update each entry, but I thought this would be a nice, concise way to wrap things up. If you're new to this series, I started by interviewing a crystals expert on how crystal therapy might help me as a singer. I then spent a month working with four different crystals each week: Turquoise, Blue Topaz, Citrine and Tiger's Eye.[...]