Friday, April 1, 2011

This Little "Secret" Can Stimulate Your Child's Learning Ability A Hundredfold

Can you imagine a learning tool that synchronises your brain and allows learning to happen almost by itself? That speeds up learning and allows the concepts learnt to literally stick in your mind? A tool that is simple, easy to use and is available free online? What home schooling (or any other) parent wouldn't want to have it?

Well there is such a tool, and it's not a mind altering, hocus pocus scam either. This very wonderful and useful tool that will not only improve your child's learning ability a hundredfold but will also teach them music appreciation is...

Baroque music

Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which was created in the 1600's.

Baroque music is music created to a very specific rhythm. This rhythm brings the left and right hemispheres of your brain into perfect synchronisation. It changes your brainwaves from the Beta waves of ordinary consciousness to the heightened learning state of Alpha waves. When your brain is in the Alpha state it goes into a very light meditative state that is optimal for learning.

Learning under these conditions allows you to relax and literally imprints the information directly into your mind for easy retrieval.

Now many people get very wound up about words like, brainwaves, meditation and the like. However, there is nothing in the music that is harmful to you or your child, and Baroque music is in fact used in many universities around the world to stimulate learning within their classrooms.

As for brainwaves, well we all have them and any scientist would confirm that there is nothing scary about them. Brainwaves are simply the way our brains function.

I have successfully used Baroque music during my home school lessons with my son and have found it to be a very useful tool. So much so that we never have a lesson without it. With the help of this little tool my son, at the age of 4, learnt to count from 0 - 100 in less than 10 days, and at the same time learnt to read a children's book in under 30 days.

Six benefits of Baroque music when played during your child's lessons are:

1. It slows their brainwaves down to the Alpha brainwave level
2. It relaxes their body
3. It stills their mind
4. It opens their mind to learning
5. It keeps them (and you) calm
6. It harmonizes the left and right hemispheres of the brain

There are a number of classical pieces you can choose from that will be suitable for your home school classes.

You may choose from any of the following tracks:

Vivaldi
Largo from "Winter" from The Four Seasons
Largo from Concerto in D Major for guitar and string
Largo from Concerto in C Major for mandolin, strings and harpsichord

Johann Sebastian Bach
Air for the G-string
Largo from Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV1056
Largo from Harpsichord Concerto in C Major, BWV 97537

Telemann
Largo from Double Fantasia in G Major for harpsichord

Pachelbel
Canon in D

Albinioni
Adagio in G for strings

Caudioso
Largo from Concerto for mandolin and strings

As you can see, this is a wonderful learning tool that you can incorporate into your home school lessons. And not only does Baroque music help improve your child's concentration and opens their mind to learning, you are at the same time teaching your child about music appreciation and the different styles of music.



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