Essential Musical Intelligence

By Louise Montello

Book Overview

Music fills our lives. From TV commercials to the car radio, we rarely live one single day without hearing a song. But what if you could consciously use music to foster self-awareness, creativity, and, ultimately, deep healing of the body, mind, and spirit? Through her clinical practice and research, Dr. Louise Montello has discovered what she calls Essential Musical Intelligence - our innate ability to use music and sound to bypass the defenses of the conscious mind and move directly into the emotional/soul centers where true healing can occur. This groundbreaking book draws from the wisdom of Eastern philosophies and guides us through a systematic musical journey where we learn a series of clinically proven EMI exercises to balance and harmonize all five levels of consciousness - the body, breath/energy, mind, imagination/intellect, and the realm of bliss - leading to deep and lasting change. Essential Musical Intelligence is a powerful new system of self-healing which is deeply intuitive, creative, spiritually arousing, and fun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083560814X
• ISBN13: 9780835608145
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Sound Health

I have just begun Louise Montello's book and already have found it life changing. You begin to understand that if we all were connected to our own, natural Music Intelligence how much more centered, creative and happy our society would be. Creating vibrations within the body is health giving. Knowing what music is, how it affects us and what music to choose are important and empowering pieces of knowledge. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in health and happiness!

Using music as a source of healing

Throughout "Essential Musical Intelligence" author Louise Montello builds her case that we are all connected to music when we come into this world and it is through losing that connection that we become ill and disconnected to our spiritual self. Reestablishing that connection can be a source of wholeness and health. She builds her case that even when we are born babies soothe themselves with sounds, melody, and rhythm. Then as toddlers we make up songs and hum tunes. As we get older at some point many of us lose that connection with our innerselves. That is where this book comes in. How do we reconnect with the musical part of ourselves? How do we use that connectedness to make our lives better?Louise Montello provides specific techniques to reestablish that link. Based on Eastern chakra philosophies, she provides ways to increase your self-awareness, to touch your creative side, to bring healing and wholeness to your body and spirit. The proof of the success of the system is contained in several cased histories and personal testimonies. This book falls squarely within the realm of alternative health and for those who are comfortable with the ideas of chakras it will prove to be an interesting and highly beneficial read. For those who are not comfortable with Eastern Philosophies she does an excellent job of explaining the reasons behind EMI and is very convincing. It is when she moves to therapeutic techniques that it moves to the Eastern philosophies. However, it appears that the chakra philosophy is used more as a vehicle to explain why the therapies work than as a required part of the therapy. If a therapy works it doesn't matter to most people why it works as long as it does. A valid form of centering and therapy it should prove useful to just about anyone. A recommended read.