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Summary: Using music as a source of healing
Review: Throughout "Essential Musical Intelligence" author Louise Montello builds her case that we are all connected to music when we come into this world and it is through losing that connection that we become ill and disconnected to our spiritual self. Reestablishing that connection can be a source of wholeness and health. She builds her case that even when we are born babies soothe themselves with sounds, melody, and rhythm. Then as toddlers we make up songs and hum tunes. As we get older at some point many of us lose that connection with our innerselves. That is where this book comes in. How do we reconnect with the musical part of ourselves? How do we use that connectedness to make our lives better? Louise Montello provides specific techniques to reestablish that link. Based on Eastern chakra philosophies, she provides ways to increase your self-awareness, to touch your creative side, to bring healing and wholeness to your body and spirit. The proof of the success of the system is contained in several cased histories and personal testimonies. This book falls squarely within the realm of alternative health and for those who are comfortable with the ideas of chakras it will prove to be an interesting and highly beneficial read. For those who are not comfortable with Eastern Philosophies she does an excellent job of explaining the reasons behind EMI and is very convincing. It is when she moves to therapeutic techniques that it moves to the Eastern philosophies. However, it appears that the chakra philosophy is used more as a vehicle to explain why the therapies work than as a required part of the therapy. If a therapy works it doesn't matter to most people why it works as long as it does. A valid form of centering and therapy it should prove useful to just about anyone. A recommended read.
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