30
May

Walking Meditation

If  you want to do a meditation but don’t think sitting is the best way to go about it, try this walking meditation. You can walk anywhere while you do it. Put out a yoga mat and just walk back and forth on this seemingly small space. Find a safe area like a hallway with …

29
May

Remember the Fallen – Memorial Day Music Video honoring those who sacrificed for our country

Memorial Day is a fun day at the beach or park. But it’s basis is to remember those men and women who gave so much, even their lives, to protect our country. This original music is dedicated to them with gratitude. My dad was a marine in WWII and I appreciate the sacrifices he and …

9
May

Hump Yoga – How to maintain mindfulness and focus amidst distractions

Do you do yoga? It’s a wonderful practice that can help you both physically and emotionally. Though I’ve co-written A Woman’s Book of Yoga about Kundalini yoga, I’m now learning a new form of yoga called mindful hatha yoga. {Click here to hear me narrate this post over a soundtrack of my original music}.   …

19
Apr

Lessons Learned From A Raisin

Most people like raisins. They pop a small handful into their mouth and enjoy them for a moment. Maybe pop in another small handful or repeat a few more times.   As part of a mindfulness course I’m taking, we did an exercise that created a different raisin experience. It required me to select one …

23
Dec

Daddy’s Coming Home for Christmas – Original Christmas Song

It’s the holidays and every year I think about the enlisted men and women that put themselves in harms way to protect our freedom. Most can’t be with their families for the holidays and when they can, it’s very special. That’s why I wrote this song called Daddy’s Coming Home for Christmas. I made a …

11
Mar

Sing Along With The Colonoscopy Song

You wouldn’t think the World Series and colonoscopy had anything to do with each other. But for me it did. When my doctor suggested I have a colonoscopy, I said I’d do it when the Red Sox won the World Series. At the time, they hadn’t done it in 86 years and I thought I …

4
Nov

Tchaikovsky used for Music and Medicine – Enjoy!

Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers: If you like Tchaikovsky you will really love this email sent to me by Sylvia Farb – just beautiful Forty students from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance took a classical approach to the flashmob as they flashwaltzed Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers at the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson …

16
Oct

Dr. Mache Gives Guest Speaker Lecture at Stanford

Today I was guest speaker at the Stanford University Department of Ob/Gyn on the subject of How To Reach, Teach and Motivate Patients in 2012. My goal was to teach doctors and medical students new ways to explain health information. Here’s what one of the Stanford medical students had to say about the need for …

17
Sep

Music And Alzheimer's Disease

I’ve noticed for a long time that patients with Alzheimer’s Disease seldom forget the music they love most, even though the memories of loved ones and major memories slip away. It’s also known that music is used to remember the alphabet and the state capitals. Now a new study from MIT on a new software …

24
Apr

Infertility: The Child Who Might Have Been

National Infertility Awareness Week begins today. It’s been 30 years since I performed the first in-vitro fertilization in Massachusetts, one of the first in the country. I wrote this poem then as a tribute to infertility patients and the invisible loss they experience.   Infertility: The Child Who Might Have Been   The simple union of …

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