I want to share some of my reasons for sponsoring New Tang Dynasty Television抯 (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular. Of course, I am Chinese, and the Chinese New Year is part of my tradition and heritage. I love the colorful costumes, beautiful music and dance depicting ancient myths and legends. It reminds me of stories from my childhood. In addition, the cause, the people involved and the performances themselves have touched me profoundly, they have a healing effect in more than one sense.
Most people in the West don抰 know that traditional Chinese culture has really been destroyed by the communist regime. What people nowadays get in China is very shallow as it has been stripped of all its deeper inner meaning and is laden with communist party culture. So while there are other Chinese New Year Galas, I find that only NTDTV has been able to recreate a New Year celebration that is truly authentic, and at the same time has a charming multicultural flavor. It is performed in dozens of cities around the world, and people everywhere enjoy it tremendously. It contributes to greater harmony and understanding between people and cultures.
Right now Chinese society is in the process of a great transformation as millions of Chinese have quit from the communist party during the past 24 months. China is facing the abolishment of communism and a return to its rich cultural heritage. I believe that the annual NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular is promoting the spreading of traditional Chinese culture globally and helps speed up the rebirth of traditional values in Mainland China.
Another reason why I sponsor this event is because there is a spiritually uplifting energy in these wonderful music performances. It is actually a healing energy. I am a doctor of Oriental Medicine and also have a western degree in Neuroscience. I practice vibrational energy medicine as my profession, and I am very sensitive to healing vibrations. The pure energy produced during these shows is very powerful. During the entire show, I find my mind, body and soul are deeply resonating with the music waves. I realized that this is not just a show for entertainment, it goes way beyond ordinary art performances.
In my practice I am seeing increasing numbers of people suffering from different kinds of mental and physical problems. I believe they are a result of our fast-moving, competitive, materialistic, and stressful lifestyle which causes imbalances in the autonomic nervous systems and blocking mental, physical and emotional energy pathways. Many people, including teenagers, listen to noisy, meaningless and mind-disturbing music, which I feel are also contributing to psychological problems including ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, and more. Many studies indicate that mental stress and negative emotions can cause physical diseases. This is already a common reality today.
One of the treatment modalities in my practice is sound therapy. It involves a complex process of playing certain sounds and frequencies to a patient and monitoring their brain activity to determine what is most harmonious and beneficial in changing their condition. Many patients, including stroke victims, have responded extremely well and recovered from a variety of serious problems using sound therapy.
From my many years of working with sound and music I can tell what kinds of sound and music promote healing and well-being. I found that the NTDTV performances have such an effect. I have shared the DVD of last year抯 show with many friends and patients as well.
I plan to close my office on January 9th and take my family to the Los Angeles show at the Kodak Theater. I hope you can see it at a theater near your home. Enjoy the Chinese New Year at its best and have a healing experience! http://shows.ntdtv.com
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Story Idea: Good Vibrations - "Hang" Musician discovers power of Vibrational Harmonics
ReplyDeleteDear James,
I was very intrigued by your post about the "Gift of Healing". I would like to submit a complimentary follow up information / article to support your piece. I am happy to send you a finished story to your specifications or simply, my abstract for you to include in your own article.
I have been working with Matt Venuti, a San Francisco-based composer and musician. He's a talented multi-instrumentalist who has for the past few years focused on one of the first genuinely new acoustic instruments of the 21st century. Known as the Hang (meaning "hand" in Swiss, the language of the Hang's 2001 creators), it looks almost like a retro flying saucer and its melodic voice is expressed through touch. It produces beautiful music and has healing, soul-soothing energy.
Music therapy has proven useful in alleviating pain associated with overworked muscles and joints, cancer and sports injuries among other ailments. According to the American Music Therapy Association, music therapy "can be designed to promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation." Several studies have demonstrated that listening to pleasing music can reduce pain and anxiety and improve physiological parameters (such as blood pressure, immunity and levels of mood-boosting endorphins) in patients following surgery or in other clinical settings. Because stress hormones can suppress our immune response, it's hardly surprising that relaxing music boosts our body's ability to protect itself from disease.
"The body is held together by sound-the presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune."
- Dr. Deepak Chopra
Matt Venuti understands the healing power of "vibrational harmonics", and how the Hang has a soothing, relieving adjunct. When Matt performs live, his audiences are mesmerized (link to his Hangsoul YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/hangsoul). He says the Hang music seems to soothe and calm people and has been a large part of his own healing process over the past year since he lost his beloved wife to cancer.
May I provide an abstract or finished piece, photos, or arrange a conversation with Matt either through email questions or by phone? I can also provide photos of Matt and/or his most recently released CD, Hangisphere.
Many thanks,
Angela James, Media Owls for Matt Venuti
angela@mediaowls.com