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Medicine and Health Sciences

SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad

Capstone Collection

2017

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Music, Healing, And Conflict: Balancing Science And Intuition, Marisa K. Massery Jan 2017

Music, Healing, And Conflict: Balancing Science And Intuition, Marisa K. Massery

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Music move us personally and with more meaning than any other medium in the world. In the past few decades, modern advances in neuroscience have proved via neuroimaging that musical processing involves almost every region of the brain, a task that no other stimulus can achieve. Science can show what is happening in our brain, but humans have intuitively known and utilized music for healing purposes since the beginning of humanity. This research examines the dynamics of continued scientific advancement in light of Non-Western ways of knowing. The study is an attempt to shorten the distance between music, healing and …


Reiki And Healing Touch: Implications For Trauma Healing, Cynthia Ford Jan 2017

Reiki And Healing Touch: Implications For Trauma Healing, Cynthia Ford

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This research explores implications for trauma healing through the energy therapies Reiki and Healing Touch. This is explored through the perspectives of women living in Tacoma, Washington who receive Reiki and/or Healing Touch and are also practitioners of Reiki and/or Healing Touch. In recent decades trauma healing has proved to be a holistic endeavor, and as the practice of energy therapies such as Reiki and Healing Touch are becoming more mainstream and even accepted in the medical community, these therapies boast a myriad of physical and psychological benefits that include trauma healing. A phenomenological approach is taken to explore this …