Music is Medicine for the Body, Heart and Soul
Week of July 17, 2021
Harnessing the Regenerative Power of Music for Health and Wellness
Music is an incredibly powerful phenomenon that touches us in profound ways. For more and more people, music transcends being simply a form of entertainment to become much more: a resource for healing and a connection to the things that matter most during the critical passages in our lives. This way of harnessing the “universal language of emotion” can enhance and uplift our lives (and environments) in meaningful and healing ways. It can awaken joy, reduce stress, and create more humane ecosystems of compassion and empathy. These multi-sensory experiences can rebalance our hearts and minds, nourish our souls, and strengthen our capacity to be of service to others. When these music and sound experiences are created in the name of the love of life, you can harness these vibrationally intelligent modalities to co-create a world of unity where everyone wins.
Gary Malkin is a multiple Emmy award-winning composer, public speaker & arts and health expert who inspires the world to embrace music as a catalyst for greater emotional intelligence, heart-centered mindfulness and cross-cultural community building through his life-enhancing company, WisdomoftheWorld.com. His score for Thrive, the most watched documentary in history, received a Hollywood Music in Media award in 2013. His globally acclaimed palliative resource, Graceful Passages, co-created with award-winning filmmaker Michael Stillwater, is considered the most celebrated work of its kind, having supported over a million people worldwide to find acceptance for the end of life process. Gary has presented at UCSF Medical Center, Stanford Health, Houston Methodist, Google, Harvard’s Conference on Spirituality and Health, Scripps Clinic, among many others. After over 30 years of creating music for mainstream film and television, his work redefines music’s capacity to awaken compassion wellness into the fabric of our lives with more gratitude and Grace.