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  • Why Music? It Helps with Math, Reading, & Happiness

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    Guest post: Estela Aragon is a professional classical trumpeter currently residing in the city of Columbia, South Carolina. She is the founder and owner of the innovative MusicFit Academy, which offers private music lessons intertwined with physical well-being. Aragon was an active trumpeter in the Tampa Bay area in Florida, often performing as the principal trumpeter of the Tampa Bay Symphony, as a soloist and with numerous ensembles.
    Aragon has seven years of experience teaching the trumpet to young players. She was a brass instructor with focus on trumpet at Don Banks Music in Tampa, FL, and shortly after started her own small studio, the TrumpetFit Studio. Her students often advance in chair placements at their own schools and win auditions into county and state honor bands.
    Estela Aragon received her B.M from the University of Tampa and a M.M in Trumpet Performance from the University of South Carolina School of Music. She formerly studied with Aric Brian (professor of trumpet at the University of Tampa and active freelance musician), followed by studies with James Ackley (former Principal of the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra and internationally acclaimed solo artist) and world renowned trumpeter Allen Vizutti.
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    Greetings musical minds! I've got a cool subject today, one which I luckily stumbled upon in my program of a play called "Inventing Van Gogh" last night. I have been wanting to write a short blog about this many times but never got around to it. So let's get to it.

    Why is music the best extra-curricular activity parents can get their kids involved in? Is it a coincidence that the greatest minds of all time like Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein, Issac Newton and Bill Gates among others were musicians? I think not. Music is scientifically proven to improve mathematical skills. In an info graphic that can be seen here: http://dailyinfographic.com/music-lessons-make-you-smarter-infographic, we can see that "in a study of 96 children ages 5-7, those who received 7 months of supplementary music and arts classes earned HIGHER MATHEMATICS SCORES than those with the schools' typical music and arts training." Math is not the only benefit, reading skills are also proven to be better. After all, music is yet another language us musicians speak! In the same info graphic as above we see another study "with over 500,000 high school students" that proved "a strong correlation between music instruction and HIGHER READING TEST SCORES."
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    This is not all, music kids have higher IQ's and score higher in standardized tests such as the SAT. Music has a profound impact in brain activity. According to an article in INSIDE Magazine, "studies over time showed that the brain changes shape as the result of exposure to music: that discovery was mind-bending." In an even better example of the power of music, "researchers pitted music against anti-anxiety drugs in pre-operation patients, and they discovered that the patients who listened to music had lower cortisol levels (the hormone secreted to deal with stress) than the group who took medication." A cool little thing I learned last night: sad music makes the brain release prolactin, the hormonal tranquilizer found in mother's milk, making sad music a NATURAL TRANQUILIZER. -INSIDE Magazine. SO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? BECOME A PART OF SOMETHING THAT'S NOT ONLY FUN AND SELF-FULFILLING, BUT A PART OF AN ACTIVITY THAT ACTUALLY MAKES YOU SMARTER. Please visit: www.musicfitacademy.com.

  • Being Organized – It’s Mental!

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    Author Bio: Fran Lytle is a Behaviorist, Author and Entrepreneur.  Her most recent endeavor is SEAN (www.SeanHelpsYou.com) — 5 online tools to help you get, and stay, organized.  Fran can be reached at fran@brandchamps.com.

    There’s a lot more to being organized than just having a clean home, classroom or office. True organization is a mental state — a way of thinking.

    Being organized requires figuring out who you really are. This isn’t an easy question to ask. It’s easier to just try to sort the things on your desk, or rearrange a closet. Asking “Who am I?” can be scary because many people are afraid to admit who they really are.  But if you aren’t willing to have that conversation with yourself, how can you get to a point where you can get organized?

    Sorting stuff and moving it around in your office or home is easy compared to actually becoming an organized person. Becoming an organized person means doing deep reflection and then making the stuff you have align with who you are. Usually that means getting rid of stuff.

    Remember the late George Carlin’s “Stuff” comedy routine?  It’s a rant about “stuff,” which includes this gem . . . A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ySI8yxZ97I

    Getting rid of stuff is hard. We tend to put a great deal of our identity into what we own. That’s why it’s so important to really figure out who you are — separate your identity from the stuff you own.  Human nature makes us extremely attached to our stuff. The whole point here is to keep the stuff that’s important and learn to let go of the stuff that isn’t.

    But all of that will be impossible, unless you’re able to really be honest with yourself about who you are and what really matters in your life. Without doing that, you aren’t going to be able to really be organized.

    After you’ve done your soul searching, organize in your own way.  We’re all a little different in the way we arrange our lives. We have different ways of understanding. We all have different patterns in the way we perceive the world and the way we act. So, do what works for you!

    We all have tons of stress in our lives, and let’s face it, most of us are not happy about it. Being better organized can help relieve stress and make you happier overall, simply because you won’t waste time and energy constantly searching for things that are buried under a disorganized mound of stuff.

    Fran Lytle is a Behaviorist, Author and Entrepreneur.  Her most recent endeavor is SEAN (www.SeanHelpsYou.com)  – 5 online tools to help you get, and stay, organized.