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Elizabeth Miles

"The power of music is as vast and as personal as every individual who tunes in. I'm passionate about sharing music's potential with the right mix of expertise, empathy, and taking that extra step into people's daily lives."

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"Ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Miles offers an at times scientific but still user-friendly sound system for treating what ails you. Listen up."

-Self

"A nice collection of resources by Los Angeles radio personality and ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Miles."

-Los Angeles Times

"A fascinating new book."

-Dallas Morning News

"Miles carefully encapsulates the modern scientific research concerning the power of music."

-NAPRA ReView

 

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THE BOOK 

In 1993, experimenters at the University of California Irvine established that Mozart makes people smarter with a study in which listening to his piano sonata improved IQ by an average of nine points. TUNE YOUR BRAIN®: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood (Berkley Books; October 1997; $12.00), by ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Miles, goes far beyond the so-called “Mozart effect” by tapping the latest research in neurology, psychology, and medicine to create a system for using favorite music to achieve seven different states of mind, body, and mood.  (The 1997 edition is out of print; a new edition is forthcoming from iUniverse in 2005.)

Tune Your Brain is the first science-backed self-help guide to using all styles of music—Gregorian chant, hip hop, Indian ragas, rock and roll, Moroccan trance music and more—to manage the brain, body, and emotions. Wake up. Go to sleep. Brainstorm. Concentrate. Remember. Socialize. Exercise. Beat stress. Heal. Gear up for a presentation. Wind down for intimacy. Control overeating and substance use. Filled with practical applications for everyday use, Tune Your Brain unites brain-body science with the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures to access the musical tools needed to optimize performance in all areas of life. No technical knowledge or mind-altering substance is required—just a CD player and a pair of open ears.

Tune Your Brain is the book with the tools, techniques, and over 500 recommended recordings that make it fun and easy to:

  • ENERGIZE with the Rolling Stones: Wake up, prepare for performance, recharge, exercise, get cheap and legal thrills.

  • RELAX with Nat King Cole: Manage stress and anxiety, go to sleep, gain patience and people skills, control panic attacks, meditate, eat more slowly, stay cool in the car.

  • FOCUS with Mozart: Enhance IQ, facilitate memory and learning, concentrate, beat mental fatigue, prolong your attention span.

  • HEAL with Ravi Shankar: Overcome pain, recover from illness or injury, stimulate the immune system, ease medical procedures, speed recovery from surgery.

  • UPLIFT with James Brown: Break bad moods, treat depression, escape from negative thought patterns, fight overeating, boost confidence.

  • CLEANSE with Metallica: Vent feelings and frustrations to manage aggression, release repressed anger, face grief, and handle problem relationships.

  • CREATE with John Coltrane: Promote whole-brain thinking, solve problems, tap the subconscious, brainstorm, forge new neural connections, incubate ideas, increase your emotional intelligence.

From doing higher math to having better sex, Tune Your Brain helps transform any CD collection into a resource for personal well-being.

TUNE YOUR BRAIN®: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood by Elizabeth Miles; Berkley Books 1997/iUniverse 2005; ISBN 0595370373.

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THE CD SERIES

Deutsche Grammophon, the world's leading classical music label, and ethnomusicologist/author Elizabeth Miles join forces on the innovative CD series TUNE YOUR BRAIN®: Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood to put the power of music into the ears of listeners everywhere.

In 1996, Elizabeth Miles wrote to Deutsche Grammophon label chief Albert Imperato about her upcoming book, and a new kind of classical music recording was born. Miles' groundbreaking work Tune Your Brain®: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body and Mood (Berkley Books 1997) explains the benefits of music to the mind and body as proven through neurological and medical research. To bring the book to life, Miles delved into DG's famous vaults to create a musical companion—the first-ever DG compilation to target its masterworks to achieving optimal performance and health.

Braintuning made an international splash. The media has embraced Elizabeth's expert ability to dig beneath the surface of the so-called "Mozart effect" and make music's specific powers easily available through her book and CDs. The best-selling Tune Your Brain series has topped Billboard's Classical Midline Chart over the past four years and continues to improve listeners’ lives with nine titles out and more on the way. With people everywhere eager to discover natural ways to achieve more and enjoy better health and energy, Tune Your Brain is today's way to listen.

Tune Your Brain®: Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood  

Take a trip through your seven states of mind, body, and mood!

Using the Tune Your Brain sampler recording and the braintuning techniques in the accompanying liner notes, listeners can easily learn to Relax with Gregorian chant, Focus with Mozart, Uplift with Handel, Create with Korngold, Cleanse with Holst, Heal with Schubert, and Energize with Wagner. Covering all seven states of mind, body, and mood, this release introduces beginning braintuners to the spectacular and specific powers of music.

Tune Your Brain® with Mozart: Focus  

Mozart makes you smarter in more ways than one.

This brain-boosting compilation is solely devoted to balancing mental energies for maximum intelligence. From raising IQ to music for reading, writing, and analysis and a sequence for multi-tasking and thinking on your feet, Tune Your Brain with Mozart: Focus can make the workday more productive, studying more effective—thinking more fun.

Tune Your Brain® with Mozart: Relax

Relax with Mozart—because in today's high-anxiety world, harmony is not optional.

The low, slow selections on this disc can regularize brain waves, stem stress hormone secretions, loosen tense muscles, and provide a proven break from life in the fast lane. With sequences for beating daily stress, deep relaxation, and sleep, this collection provides all the time-tested tools you need to Tune Your Brain to the frequency of peace.

Tune Your Brain® with Mozart: Energize 

Pump up the volume and plug into an all-natural energy source.

Calorie-free, nice to your nerves, and as exciting to your mind as it is to your body, Mozart's music can give you the energy edge you need to go farther and faster. The sound waves of Energizing music literally electrify the body and brain, and this disc sequences the master's most stimulating works to help you work out, wake up, recharge, prepare for peak performance, and achieve your greatest potential.

Tune Your Brain® with Beethoven: Uplift 

The strongest mood medicine you can get without a prescription.

Music can boost your mood biochemically, psychologically, and physically, and Beethoven is a master of this euphoric effect. Here, his most emotionally potent pieces are sequenced in Uplifting “ramps” to help you treat bad moods and the blues, liven up your love life, beat the food-mood connection, and get a blast of self-confidence simply by pushing play. Elation is within earshot!

Tune Your Brain® with Bach: Heal

Take your health into your own hands—and ears.

Decades of clinical evidence support music’s prescription-strength power to control pain, boost immunity, promote the healing process, and ease stressful events from childbirth to chemotherapy. Tune Your Brain with Bach: Heal applies the latest research to the transcendent music of Bach to create a nontoxic, noninvasive, and natural prescription for health.

Tune Your Brain® with Debussy: Create

Music to build a better mousetrap.

Good news for potential prodigies: This provocative collection is designed to tap the neurological connections that support the creative process. Matching the music of Debussy—Brainstormers, Imagers, Whole-Brainers, and Incubators—with Tune Your Brain techniques, the disk offers a full set of targeted creativity tools you can use every day. Tune Your Brain with Debussy when you want to build a better product, create an opus magnus, or come up with the million-dollar solution.

Tune Your Brain® with Tchaikovsky: Cleanse

The solution to soul pollution.

  Aristotle recommended music as catharsis to cleanse the soul, and contemporary neuroscience shows that music activates emotional centers in the brain that could help drain negativity away. These purifying tracks include Red-Hot pieces for fiery feelings, Blue tunes to give voice to sadness and grief, and Full Spectrum selections for a soul-stirring workout. Tune Your Brain with Tchaikovsky: Cleanse covers the range of human feeling to clean up your emotional environment.

Tune Your Brain® for Pregnancy and Childbirth: Listening for Two with Mozart and More

Music makes a bright start for baby and mom.

From month one to nine, Lamaze class to the hospital, the right soundtrack can ease pregnancy for mothers and give babies a head start on development. Here, listening for two is made easy and fun with the music of Mozart and more sequenced to meet the needs of this special time—managing mom's energy and exercise, supporting Lamaze training, and stimulating minds and bodies in the making. This is music to make the world's greatest miracle even sweeter.

Tune Your Brain® for Stress Relief: Shifting Gears with Chopin and Other Piano Greats

Listen more, stress less.

Stress is number one on most people's problem list, but with so many pressing priorities and no time for slowing down, stress can be hard to beat. Classical music is the solution—a smart way to take the edge off without losing your cutting edge. Tapping the extensive evidence for music's stress-relieving properties and top recordings of Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven, Bach and other masters of soothing solo piano, Miles creates a totally portable way to reduce the tension level of every listener.

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