Life
Lifestyle & Entertainment
| Soothing Sounds |
|
Songwriters and composers often base great works on the idea of mending a broken heart and according to recent medical research, they could be onto something. Today, medical practitioners and patients all over the world, use music in their anxiety and pain management programs. Music is now being used to enhance the atmosphere in health resorts, clinics and even hospitals such as the Royal Melbourne. The hospitals’ manager of Events Arts, Debra Adamidis, says musicians perform in the hospital’s corridors and wards every week. “Live music takes patients out of that scary mind-set and improves the quality of their experience in hospital,” Adamidis says. Australian composer and musician John Levine says certain types of music help lower our stress levels, get a grip on things and manage our condition in a calm, focused state of mind. “Clients undergoing chemotherapy and who are experiencing fear, anxiety and discomfort from the treatment regime have used music as a calmative. It has allowed the patients to feel better able to cope with the side effects.
Classical Music You may have heard of the ‘Mozart Effect’ before. It is based on the theory that classical music increases our brain activity to such an extent that it improves our performance, whether it be studying for an exam, or a busy day in the office. The relaxation brought on by a calming concerto was shown to relieve stress, which in turn, can help in cases of heart disease and stroke. Shedding the kilos can also be made easier by putting on some relaxing music when sitting down for your evening meal. Eating whilst listening to Mozart will improve your metabolism and food digestion. Clinical studies show people take about three mouthfuls a minute when soothing music plays, versus at least four mouthfuls when there are no tunes in the background On the other hand, eating while listening to rock music will make you eat faster. As a result you swallow bigger bits of food making it harder for your stomach to digest the food. And that, inevitably, leads to extra weight.
Rock/pop Music It’s no secret that exercising improves your mood, but add some up tempo music to your work out and one particular study has linked the pair with an increase in mental performance. Charles Emery, is the study's lead author and a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. "Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system, and these changes may have a direct effect on cognitive ability,” he says. Music is often used at the gym to get you pumped up for your exercise regime. Music therapist, Stephanie Thompson, says music can be used to motivate people to keep going on the cross trainer. “If you look around any gym, it’s easy to notice when someone is listening to a song they like, or one which has a fast and strong pulse. They immediately start to work harder and the speed at which they are working becomes synchronised with the tempo of the song,” she explains. Up tempo music works by narrowing our attention, which as a consequence, diverts our attention away from the sensations of fatigue when we’re sweating it out. It also alters our arousal levels and can therefore be used as a form of stimulant prior to competition or as a sedative to calm over-anxious athletes. Rock music on the other hand, has been found to make people angry, or uptight. Of course it depends on the individual, but if you’re looking for mental and physical benefits, it could be wise to limit your listening to rock or heavy metal music.
Music is the medicine of the mind Listening to music can rev you up or calm you down, depending on the rhythm and tempo. But certain sounds have particularly strong effects on our emotions and brain. Learn to choose music, not only for your listening enjoyment, but to improve your well-being. Music is often an untapped source or motivation and inspiration, and can deliver a stack of health benefits. Happy listening!
|
Music. You can’t escape it – it’s everywhere. But what most of us don’t realise, is music can have a very powerful influence on our emotions, moods and behaviour. Tamra Mercieca explains.
Tamra Mercieca is from the company Getting Naked and specialises in helping you find your inner beauty, energy, health and balance. If you'd like to know more visit Bay's Kitchen - Molly's mouth-watering mu…
SWEET POTATO BROWNIES These are the perfect guilt-free treat to get you through you sweet c...
22 May 2013 Recipes
Leonie Mills-Jack and Jill Restaurant
Sausage Rolls Makes 10 large sausage rolls. 400gms fine sausage mince 200gms lean chicken mince 200gms lean pork mince 1 large onion very finely diced 4 eggs...
16 May 2013 Recipes
Trojans, Malware and Adware
For today, we'll discuss the insidious nature of this type of annoying and sometimes damaging code that plagues the majority of PC users at some-time or anot...
10 May 2013 Technology
Smartphone care and damage prevention
Most of us regard ourselves as savvy users of technology when it comes to operating our smart phones. Whether your flavour is Apple, Android or Windows based...
10 May 2013 Technology
Leonie Mills Recipe
Bay FM Recipe Osso Bucco with soft polenta Serves 6 2.5 kg veal or beef shin cut into thick slices ½ cup plain flour 2 onions diced 2 carrots diced 3 sti...
07 May 2013 Recipes
Bays Kitchen Ricotta Stuffed Zucchini Flo…
serves four 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rin...
01 May 2013 Recipes
Daniel Brehaut from The Black Bull Tapas …
Banana Crumble Ingredients · 150g (1 cup) plain flour · 100g (1/2 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar · 100g chilled ...
26 Apr 2013 Recipes
Our Top Immune Herbs to Prevent Winter Il…
There’s been a lot of noise in the media in recent weeks about the “deadly flu” hitting Australia... and it’s about this time every year that we see similar ...
20 Apr 2013 Mary Petherick - Wellbeing
Happy Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate and pamper our Mum. It’s about acknowledging and appreciating how nurturing, caring, loving, empowering an...
20 Apr 2013 Mary Petherick - Wellbeing
Depression
Life is too short not to be happy… but unfortunately anxiety and depression inhibit many to fully enjoy life’s pleasures. Those who experience these neurobio...
20 Apr 2013 Mary Petherick - Wellbeing
Bombshell: Ford to close Geelong & Broadm…
BayFM can confirm that Ford Australia is about to announce the end of its manufacturing operations in Australia, with the loss of thousands of jobs.
23 May 2013
Dodgy cars caught in cop crack down
Thousands of cars have been pulled over across Geelong and the Surf Coast during an operation focusing on unroadworthy vehicles.
23 May 2013
Survey targets V/Line failings
Geelong train users will get to have their say on V-Line's performance and the quality of facilities at local stations.
23 May 2013
Jade Augustine - Solid foods and babies
Geelong Supermum, Jade Augustine, was chatting with The Morning Crew about 6 month old baby Jack and the process of trying solid foods. Was she successful?...
22 May 2013
Lee Kernaghan - Costa Hall Saturday 25th …
The Morning Crew caught with an Aussie country superstar, Lee Kernaghan, and chatted about his 'Beautiful...
22 May 2013
The Voice - Michael Stangel
The Morning Crew caught up with the last Geelong performer on Channel 9's The Voice, Michael Stangel. They wanted to who has made friends with, and also ho...
21 May 2013
Craig Meddings Weird Science
Today Craig Meddings was chatting about a device that plugs into the bottom of a smart phone and produces a scent ...
20 May 2013
Rug up for a great weekend ahead!
Well this cooler weekend ahead promises to deliver great options in fulfilling your leisure time, just make sure you take your woolly jacket and an umbrella...
16 May 2013
Here we come Weekend!!!!
Gosh the weeks fly and here we go heading straight into winter with a few summer days thrown in! Let’s make the most of those this weekend as next week is p...
10 May 2013
Trojans, Malware and Adware
For today, we'll discuss the insidious nature of this type of annoying and sometimes damaging code that plagues the majority of PC users at some-time or anot...
10 May 2013
Smartphone care and damage prevention
Most of us regard ourselves as savvy users of technology when it comes to operating our smart phones. Whether your flavour is Apple, Android or Windows based...
10 May 2013
4 reasons to finally dump your dumb-phone
The smartphone as we know it is about 5 years old now, and while people have moved in droves, there are still many who sport a phone like the one shown abov...
09 Apr 2013
Facebook set to change timeline
From 5AM tomorrow your Facebook news feed will change. Industry insiders say that the news feed will feature seperate feeds for different things like imag...
07 Mar 2013
Cauliflower – The Ultimate Comfort …
Cauliflower makes me think of winter comfort food, but few gardeners realise that NOW is the time to plant it for the best ...
09 Apr 2013
It's Great To Be Corny
Believe it or not, corn is actually originated from a South American grass species called Teosinte. ...
01 Mar 2013
Going completely bananas!
Wild weather in Australia's north has once again shown how vulnerable our food system can be. With most of ou...
26 Feb 2013
Dealing with leaf curl so your summ…
A bad dose of leaf curl can render your peach and nectarine trees fruitless. FRUITLESS I TELLS YA! Also known a...
04 Jan 2013
Our Top Immune Herbs to Prevent Winter Il…
There’s been a lot of noise in the media in recent weeks about the “deadly flu” hitting Australia... and it’s about this time every year that we...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 20 Apr 2013
Happy Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate and pamper our Mum. It’s about acknowledging and appreciating how nurturing, caring, loving, ...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 20 Apr 2013
Depression
Life is too short not to be happy… but unfortunately anxiety and depression inhibit many to fully enjoy life’s pleasures. Those who experience t...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 20 Apr 2013
Stress Buster
Ghandi once said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed” And if we truly desire to live a healthy and happy life we need to make a re...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 20 Apr 2013
PMS
There is still not a great deal of understanding of the causes of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) but a staggering 150 symptoms have been identified...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 19 Apr 2013
Mood Changes and Menopause
About one in ten women experience depression, anxiety or feelings of inadequacy around menopause (Trickey, 1998). Whether the cause of this is d...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 18 Mar 2013
Power Surges
For many healthy women menopause is a smooth and easy transition with very few adverse symptoms. However the transition to menopause, known as p...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 12 Mar 2013
Menopause… a Time of Change
Menopause is a time of change. And making it a time of positive change is not just pot-luck! There is now plenty of evidence to suggest that pre...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 06 Mar 2013
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
If you are unfortunate enough to suffer from IBS you are not alone. It is estimated that 1 in 5 Australians will suffer from the condition at so...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 18 Feb 2013
Feeling Bloated?
Do you often feel bloated after meals, or suffer from flatulence, belching or indigestion? Bloating is a sign that your digestion is not working...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 13 Feb 2013
Magnesium on the Menu
In our ‘Back on Track’ program we include magnesium as an essential supplement - and here’s why... 1. Magnesium is needed for our body to produc...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 29 Jan 2013
Getting Back On Track
Are You Ready to Reach your Potential in 2013? Well Here’s the thing... …if you keep on doing the same things, you can only expect the same r...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 21 Jan 2013
Break the Habit
The great thing about Christmas and New Year in the Southern Hemisphere is that it falls in summer. And summer for a lot of us means holidays, s...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 16 Jan 2013
Take Time to Feast, Reflect & Relax
A Time to Feast The Christmas season is a traditional time for feasting and I believe it is very important to preserve and practise our cultura...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 24 Dec 2012
Obesity is growing
According to a report released last month by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) the rates of obesity in Australia have increa...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 12 Dec 2012
Weight Loss
The Second 3 Drivers that may Impede Weight Loss 4. The Impact of Stress on Fat Loss Cortisol is a hormone which is normally present in the body...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 04 Dec 2012
The Love Sandwich... how to relate better…
People LOVE compliments. They like to know you value them and see their strengths as much as you notice their weaknesses. So why not tell th...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Curiosi-tea... opening your mind to more.
Imagine if you no longer had expectations and instead went into every ghost ride, every sexual experience, every conversation with a complete...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Be careful of wearing the welcome sign, o…
So you know how to say ‘No’ (inadvertently as it may be), you’re simply saying ‘No’ to the wrong person. Sometimes putting yourself first can...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Kiss and make up? How to grow from lover’…
Take the approach of wanting to ‘understand’ where your lover is coming from; what caused them to act in that way? Be curious as opposed to an...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Good friendships put the colour in your c…
Simply being your friendly, loving self is the first step. Next, you need to leave the house. New friends are unlikely to come knockin’ at you...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
‘Down-time’ the key to weight loss? Yes… …
Because most of us decide to keep chasing the lion, these stress hormones trigger the body into burning calories from carbs and lean muscle in...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Shopping for a lover.. online? Go on. Try…
Well the same goes for meeting Mr. or Mrs. Right. Date a few, find out what attributes you value in a partner, then don’t settle for less. In...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Health scares. Getting to the root cause …
This is how our body communicates to us. So instead of getting frustrated next time you catch a cold, get sick with a virus or hurt your back...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 29 Nov 2012
Weight Loss vs Fat Loss
When thinking about implementing any kind of weight management program, a distinction must be made between fat loss and weight loss. Many low-fa...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 27 Nov 2012
The caped crusaders of the fruit bowl: Tu…
BLUEBERRIES: Blueberries have been shown to not only reverse memory less, but shrink cancerous tumours and prevent the development and growth...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 22 Nov 2012
Transformation… the first piece of the pu…
Around 500BC, the Greek philosopher and founder of modern medicine, Hippocrates, first hinted at the notion of lifestyle medicine. He warned us...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 20 Nov 2012
Possibilities are endless.. really! Are y…
This is the key to developing our potential. The more we step out of our comfort zone and make new decisions, the more the muscle mass in our ...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 15 Nov 2012
2012 Healthy Trends for Weight Loss
In the past couple of years mention the word “svelte” or “leptin green coffee”, “high protein diets like Dukan or Atkins ” and you’ll have anyon...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 13 Nov 2012
The Mind-Body-Soul Connection
At Mammoth Health we’re about more than just addressing illness with supplements and diet. We are also about living our lives to their full pote...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 06 Nov 2012
How Positive Are You?
Have you noticed we tend to spend a lot of time focusing on our weaknesses, forever striving to turn a weakness into a strength and often becomi...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 22 Oct 2012
LOVER'S QUARRELS
Relationships, when going well, give us an undeniable zest of life – topping us up with strength, ambition and an unshakable belief in our most ...
Wellbeing - Tamra 2013 | 18 Oct 2012
Liver Detox
These past couple of weeks we have been discussing how to detox safely and effectively… and discovered it’s not as simple as taking a liver for...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 15 Oct 2012
DOORMAT SYNDROME
Be careful of wearing the welcome sign, or you may end up being a doormat. Relationship Therapist, Tamra Mercieca, says you don't have to keep ...
Tamra Mercieca - Wellbeing | 15 Oct 2012
Detoxing… gotta get the gut right first!
When most people think “detox” they think liver. And the liver is an important detoxifying organ but most people (and products) only focus on th...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 08 Oct 2012
CURIOSI-TEA
Albert Eistein once said: ‘I have no special talents. I’m only passionately curious.’ Relationships Therapist Tamra Mercieca talks about how be...
Tamra Mercieca - Wellbeing | 05 Oct 2012
Ginger Offers Chemotherapy Relief
It was reported in The Age (16/5/09) that a study has found Ginger reduced, by 40 per cent, the sick feeling of cancer patients taking chemothe...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 01 Oct 2012
Take Control
Channel 9 news recently reported (16/4/12) that each year 80,000 Australians will get the flu. 15,000 of these flu victims will end up in hospi...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 01 Oct 2012
Krill Oil or Fish Oil
With all the marketing noise out there it’s difficult to know whether we should be taking Fish Oil or Krill Oil. Let’s have a look at the two… ...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 01 Oct 2012
It’s Time To Detox & Cleanse
I don’t know about you but this morning I could smell the promise of Spring in the air. And Spring is traditionally the time for renewal, new...
Mary Petherick - Wellbeing | 01 Oct 2012
New house designs, requirements & tips.
Homes By Chapman, Penny Chapman Designing your home, one of the most important steps before you build. Listen to Penny has she gives us tips on everything ...
How an agent negotiates
Dylan Taggert, Buxton Dylan goes through on how to negotiate, very interesting on how agents actually negotiate for you, this is a must listen if you want ...
Should you advertise your property in January?
Shaun Gilbert Realestate.com.au Shaun takes us through on why you should continue to advertise your property in January if you are going to sell Lis...
Steps involved in building a new home.
Homes By Chapman, Steve Chapman Steve Chapman takes us through the steps on what you should do once you have purchased your block and are ready to build, t...
Listen to Win The Voice, The Final …
Listen out all this week on The Morning Crew to win a copy of The Voice, The Final 32 double album. All thanks to Universal...
13 May 2013
WIN WRECK IT RALPH ON DVD AND BLUE …
Listen to the BayFM Morning Crew all this week to win your own copy of the Disney animation Wreck It Ralph on either DVD or ...
07 May 2013
Kokoda For Kids- Make A Difference!
Do you want to change a life? What about having your own life changing experience? Donate now to Kids Plus as Part of BayFM’...
08 Apr 2013
2012 Voice finalist on the Catch Up
Mark & Paula with 2012 Voice finalist Ben Hazelwood. 2012 The Voice finalist Ben Hazelwood dropped in for a chat...
21 May 2013
93.9 BayFM
Level 3, 83 Moorabool Street
Geelong, VIC 3220
reception@bayfm.com.au
Phone: (03) 5229 2939 Studio: (03) 5229 9939
A part of the 100% Australian family-owned Grant Broadcasters network. ABN: 65 000 667 470