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The Power of Sound: How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive, and Healthy Life
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.83
EAN: 9780892817689
ISBN: 0892817682
Label: Healing Arts Press
Manufacturer: Healing Arts Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2001-01
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Release Date: February 01, 2001
Studio: Healing Arts Press
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Editorial Review:Discover firsthand in this book/CD set the powerful effects sound has on you and learn to customize your own soundscape for a better quality of life.
• Sound pioneer Joshua Leeds shows how to use music to reduce stress, enhance learning, improve performance, and address conditions as diverse as dyslexia and depression.
• Includes accompanying CD featuring musical examples designed to induce specific mental states such as relaxation, receptivity, concentration, and creativity.
• Includes detailed guides for musicians and healthcare professionals
What we hear--and how we process it--has a far greater impact on our daily living than we realize. From the womb to the moment we die we are inescapably surrounded by sound, and what we hear can either energize or deplete our nervous systems. It is no exaggeration to say that what goes into our ears can harm us or heal us. In The Power of Sound Joshua Leeds explores the importance of healthy auditory function. He investigates how noise- or stress-induced auditory dysfunction may result in difficulties in learning, communication, and social interactions, and he explains new techniques designed to invigorate auditory skills. The accompanying CD of psychoacoustically refined classical music provides immediate examples of the benefits of music explained in the book. Readers can experience the effects of a variety of sounds and begin the life-enhancing design of their own soundscapes.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent!
Excellent overview of the new field of psychoacoustics. Well written and absorbing. Lots of resources included for further study/information/application.
Rating:  - Good 4 intro but bad for practical usage
it's a good bk and written with mission. It brings me some insight about what music can do. However, to be better in using this bk, you need to have some know-how on music, or you might find it a little difficult to understand. Anyway, it a gd bk !
Mike Yu
Rating: - The Power of Sound
Psychoacoustics is the study of how sound affects the human nervous system. One of the pioneer researchers in this exciting new field is Joshua Leeds, a composer, writer, and consultant. He has analyzed and compiled the studies and known data in The Power of Sound, his latest book.
His work is based on the premise that sound is a nutrient for the nervous system. Thus different sounds have varying effects on listeners. Although music is sound, not all sound is music. He discusses exactly ... Read More
Rating: - Are the sounds you live in healing or hurting?
Music is one of our most beloved art forms. It endures because of the way it makes us feel. The essence of music is sound. Current research tells us that music -- and all waveforms of sound -- can be a vital stimulant, a "nutrient" for the nervous system with the power to heal ... or harm.
In The Power of Sound: How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive and Healthy Life, researcher, music producer and author Joshua Leeds explores the value of sound and the ... Read More
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