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'Wide ranging, backed by science and research, informative and easy
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Artis, The Sleep Council When was the last time you had a proper
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The Origins of Musicality
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive,
appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a
predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us
can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and
consider ourselves "unmusical." This volume offers
interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive,
appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology,
neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology,
and other fields consider what music is for and why every human
culture has it; whether musicality is a uniquely human capacity;
and what biological and cognitive mechanisms underlie it.
Contributors outline a research program in musicality, and discuss
issues in studying the evolution of music; consider principles,
constraints, and theories of origins; review musicality from
cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain perspectives;
discuss the computational modeling of animal song and creativity;
and offer a historical context for the study of musicality. The
volume aims to identify the basic neurocognitive mechanisms that
constitute musicality (and effective ways to study these in human
and nonhuman animals) and to develop a method for analyzing musical
phenotypes that point to the biological basis of musicality.
Contributors Jorge L. Armony, Judith Becker, Simon E. Fisher, W.
Tecumseh Fitch, Bruno Gingras, Jessica Grahn, Yuko Hattori, Marisa
Hoeschele, Henkjan Honing, David Huron, Dieuwke Hupkes, Yukiko
Kikuchi, Julia Kursell, Marie-Elaine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Bjoern
Merker, Iain Morley, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, Martin
Rohrmeier, Constance Scharff, Carel ten Cate, Laurel J. Trainor,
Sandra E. Trehub, Peter Tyack, Dominique Vuvan, Geraint Wiggins,
Willem Zuidema
What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How
does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The
simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the
sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that
we do. Examining representations of coma and brain injury across a
variety of texts, this book investigates common tropes and
linguistic devices used to portray the medical condition of coma,
giving rise to universal mythologies and misconceptions in the
public domain. Matthew Colbeck looks at how these texts represent,
or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives
of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through
writing groups he has run over the last 10 years. Discussing a
diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh,
Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film
and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The
Walking Dead, Colbeck provides an explanation for our fascination
with coma. With a proliferation of misleading stories of survival
in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential
impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its
victims.
Self Help? Self Hypnosis! explodes the myths surrounding
self-hypnosis, providing you with an explanation about how hypnosis
works and how to use it for your own personal therapy. Many books
spend all their time showing you how to get into trance and then
leave you with little help on what to do when you get there! This
book guides you through how to use different language, ideas and
stories to help change patterns and behaviours in your mind, it
goes far beyond the usual simple affirmations for change. It is
broken down into different sections to focus on areas of treatment,
to make it easy to use and there are some sample sessions to help
you understand how to create your own therapy. Zetta Thomelin has
an honours degree in English/History, she has worked in the media
and in the Third Sector, as CEO of CWAC. Zetta now works as a
Hypnotherapist, she runs a private practice in Deal and London, she
runs practitioner level training and CPD courses through her own
training school ratified by GHSC. Zetta is the Chair of The British
Association of Therapeutic Hypnotists (BAThH), she is the Editor of
BAThH's "Journal", she is a Director of the UK Confederation of
Hypnotherapy Organisations (UKCHO) and their Press Officer.
How can we deal with the rapidly increasing pace and complexity of
life, fear of terrorism and the threatening state of world affairs,
climate breakdown, the confusions of personal relationships-without
succumbing to stress, depression and illness? Halliday provides a
way to assimilate the shocks of life experiences, so that we might
live a more balanced life. The way to achieve this is through
reconnecting with the centre of our own being, our consciousness.
Halliday sets out not only the nature of this consciousness, but
also its relation to the world of phenomena, to the nature of
being, and in particular, to mankind. He begins by examining the
meaning of terms such as sentience, consciousness and awareness.
They are to some degree interchangeable and refer to, `That in and
by which we know what we know, and that we know.' If we ask
ourselves what this statement means, we can only say that, `We know
what we mean. Consciousness is its own evidence', and thus we
cannot indicate what we mean by one of these consciousness-related
words, `without appealing to that in us, which corresponds with
their significance, that is, to that in us which knows that it
knows'. Halliday sees a complex structure such as the brain, as `a
vehicle for the expression of the complex processes of an [already
existing] sentience'. He posits that the ultimate source and origin
of our being resides in an absolute field of sentience, and states
that the true nature of the self is `consciousness itself'. But, as
beings with physical bodies, we are tyrannised by the limitations
of our sense organs; by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance
of pain, by emotional charges in the records of our experiences, so
that we often behave in a reactive manner-as if we were no more
than animals with no free choice. But, if we remember the nature of
our true self, and our source in consciousness, we can free
ourselves from this enslavement and become human, that is, capable
of free choice and action.
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