Dance to Learn!

[cricket]

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From

Toddlers Today

Your Developing Child

When a baby is born, she absorbs everything through her senses, which include sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. A baby’s social and emotional skills are developed as a father rocks him and sings a lullaby – the baby sees his father’s eyes and smile, hears the music, smells his daddy’s breath, feels the secure arms wrapped around him and moves with the rhythm of the song.

Singing and rocking your child makes the baby feel safe and encourages the parent-child bond to grow strong. Music also helps develop a baby’s perception of his physical domain. Feeling rhythm through activities like swaying, dancing, tapping and clapping helps them to learn how their bodies are organized, to learn to balance and gain muscle control, and to sequence movements.

Exposure to music has many benefits for a child’s development long after the days of infancy have passed. Scientific studies show that music helps children develop logic abilities. We know that a sense of internal rhythm is very important for learning to read (ask Dr. Seuss!). We also know that children must learn to listen, focus and pay attention. For example, kids who can pick out the words in a song as part of “auditory stream” have gained a very important skill.

Music allows children to explore sounds with their voices and to use instruments as tools, helping them to understand melodic direction, tempo and rhythmic patterns. Learning to sing develops language, articulation, diction and expression. As the earliest form of nonverbal communication, music encourages movement as an outward manifestation of inner perceptions and thoughts.

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Internal rhythm, as well as dancing, is core to the very foundations of learning.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

I thought perhaps folks would enjoy knowing more about the effects of music and movement. This is taken from God Gave the Song http://www.leonardsweet.com/sweetened/Editions/3-7-8-9/part5.htm :

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Every encounter with another person is a dance.  Part of interpersonal relationships is learning the different steps and rhythms of people.   When two people feel each others' beat, they learn when to lead, when to follow, and when to stand there and enjoy the music.  A mature soul has learned to read the energy fields of others.  Some people give off low vibrations; others are high wattage people.  Some people suck energy out of you; others plug you in to the energies of the universe.

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Soldiers throughout history have known about sympathetic vibrations, as have certain opera singers like Caruso and jazz musicians like Ella Fitzgerald.   Before soldiers cross a bridge, what do they do?  They break step.  Why?   Because their candence gives off a frequency, a sound.  If their marching song matches the frequency of the bridge, then there is achieved a technical state called "resonance," and when resonance is reached there is a tremendous explosion of energy -- an something's got to give.  And it isn't going to be the song.  So whether that bridge is built of stone or steel, that song bombs that bridge and blows it up.

You don't think vibrations have power?

What collapsed the Tacoma bridge?  The wind created a double oscillation that matched the frequency of the bridge and  it came crashing down.

What is keeping the Hancock Building in Boston from tumbling down?   Two floors at the top are dedicated to "mass tuning" the building.73

What killed the technician who first tested one of the French engineer Gavraud discoveries?  The whistle used by French and English police, when you put a pea in it, produced sub-audio frequencies.  Gavraud experimented with a six-foot version of the whistle powered by compressed air, and the internal organs of his assitant were blown to smithereens.74

Why is it forbidden to sing "Louis, Louie" at a Clemson football game?  Because the stadium began to crumble, and university officials discovered it wasn't because of defective architectural design, or inferior construction work or materials.  It was because that song "Louie, Louie" gave off frequencies which matched perfectly the frequency of the stadium.  A song was literally destroying the stadium.  And when opposing teams found that out . . .

What power source will be running your refrigerator in the near future?   Music.  Sound power is the next step in clean energy.  Scientists are already sending sound waves through special containers and obtaining clean power through a process called "RMS" (Resonant Macrosonic Synthesis).

What accompanied the ark as it was brought to Jerusalem? (II Sam. 6:15)   When Joshua ordered that trumpet blast, what do you think he was doing?  What ended the Israelites' 40-year sojourn in the desert and crumbled the walls of Jericho?

What will make the dead to rise?  When Jesus descends from the heavens, how will we know?  At the curtain of history, which God has been "upholding . . . by the word of His power" (NKJV), Jesus returns to earth with a great shout and song: "Hallelujah! The Lord Our God, the Almighty, reigns."

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