Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives
“The authors of Healing at the Speed of Sound do an excellent job of providing readers with solid scientific evidence in easy-to-understand terms. In addition, they take that information and provide readers with suggestions of how to apply it in their lives, neighborhoods, and society. . . . so packed with useful information for daily life, it will most likely become a dog-eared, highlighted, notation-covered addition to your library—and a reference you’ll want to share with your family and friends.”
A bird chirps outside your window. A jackhammer pounds the pavement outside your office. A brook gently gurgles beside the path you walk each morning. Your teenager blasts his stereo in his room. Your cat purrs contentment as you pet her on your lap. Your spouse snores at night.
Whether we like it or not, sound is all around us. All day. Every day.
Many times we tune it out. Sometimes we can’t help but pay attention. At one moment it annoys us. At another it delights us.
Regardless of our awareness of the sound that enfolds our world, we are physiologically affected by it. And the authors of Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives have not only the scientific evidence to prove it, but advice on how to use it to our advantage.
The book is organized into logical sections, covering the times of day, as well as sound’s effect on early development, education, health, society, the aging process, and more. This makes it easy to refer back to the book, when you want to remember something you read the first time through. It also empowers people to read only those sections that are of particular interest to them.
A really cool feature of the book is its invitation to engage with the information outside the confines of the cover. The authors created pages on their website with complementary audio downloads and videos. Periodically, throughout the book, readers are given a link to one of these pages that is particularly relevant, and adds value, to what they have just read.
The authors of Healing at the Speed of Sound do an excellent job of providing readers with solid scientific evidence in easy-to-understand terms. In addition, they take that information and provide readers with suggestions of how to apply it in their lives, neighborhoods, and society.
There is also an appendix that lists organizations that can help readers find out even more information about sound and music and how they affect the mind, body, and spirit.
Healing at the Speed of Sound is an excellent resource for parents, parents-to-be, and educators. The information between the covers provides concrete, applicable advice that can help us all raise a better adjusted next generation.
Even if you don’t interact with children in your life, much of the information and advice in this book can help you live an improved, more peaceful life. It give suggestions for creating a “soundtrack for life,” helping you make conscious choices about what you listen to when you want to learn, relax, pump up or wind down.
Healing at the Speed of Sound is so packed with useful information for daily life, it will most likely become a dog-eared, highlighted, notation-covered addition to your library—and a reference you’ll want to share with your family and friends.