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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.

Improve Mental Health Environments

Improve Mental Health Environments

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

Improve Music Listening Skills

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

Music as Performance Enhancing Medicine

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...

Overcoming PTSD

Overcoming PTSD

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

Mood Control in a Changing World

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...

Are You Trapped?

Are You Trapped?

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 emotional regulation is practiced regularly, emotional fluidity causes...

National Conference Features Music 4 Life

National Conference Features Music 4 Life

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...

Music Therapy to Reclaim Your Life

Music Therapy to Reclaim Your Life

How does music power up your life – before, during or after trauma? Could this be you talking? Music is my therapist … I can’t imagine life without my music. Imagine … right now thousands of American troops are being deployed into conflict in the Middle East, without...