Music4Life Founder & CEO Judith Pinkerton was the first recipient of the Aflac ACM Lifting Lives Honor (2018) and has been in the news for decades about her Music Medicine and music therapy programs positive healing effects for countless people.
Music to Enhance Sleep Sleep depravation is a prevalent problem which negatively impacts our well being. Because music can have a positive effect on physical, psychological and emotional states, it is being successfully used to improve the quality of sleep. The...
Improve Mental Health Environments Have you ever played music in the background while you were studying? If so, you probably do so to help you focus. Many can find themselves using music in this way, particularly utilizing classical music. In fact, I’m sure you’ve...
Improve Music Listening Skills Did you know there is a difference in the way you listen to music that can be more therapeutic? When you differentiates between passive and active listening you begin developing music listening skills that can improve emotional...
Music as Performance Enhancing Medicine In a 2012 review of the research, Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University in London, one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of exercise music, wrote that one could think of music as “a type of legal...
The art of resiliency is symbolized in the Chinese proverb: “The bamboo that bends is stronger thanthe oak that resists.” Even though the bamboo’s tensile strength resembles steel, and its toughness is similar to oak, bamboo is highly elastic and desired...
Mood Control in a Changing World How can music listening behaviors be problematic? When looking at music listening habits among adolescents, the study “Music-listening habits with MP3 player in a group of adolescents: a descriptive survey” revealed that the...
Music Powers Potential: Good, Bad and Ugly How does music power up your life? I can’t imagine life without music. I love my music: it describes my life exactly. I can’t live without my headphones! If I don’t listen to my music I go into rage. Music is on all night...
Are You Trapped? Are you trapped in unsettledness and don’t know it? The biggest problem today is out of control, repressed or suppressed moods. The solution: emotion regulation. When emotion regulation is practiced regularly, emotional fluidity causes...
Music for Mental Fitness: Mood Control How does music control your moods? Aggressive music calms me down. EDM makes me happy. Music is my therapist because the song understands me. I’m reminded of what I don’t want to do in the lyrics. Music connects me to loved...
Music 4 Life® [M4L] is excited to be the only music therapist-owned business amongst giants in the industry in the virtual 2021 American Music Therapy Conference Exhibit Hall. Discover what M4L’s latest buzz is all about October 14-17, 2021. M4L Founder Judith...
