Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250055776 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Waking the Spirit", which tells the story of how he became a medical musician, is his first book. Schulman is the founder and artistic director of the Abaca String Band since 1991. ANDREW SCHULMAN has just started a residency in the Critical Care department at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Andrew Schulman lives
In Waking the Spirit, you'll learn the astonishing stories of the people he’s met along the wayboth patients and doctorsand see the incredible role music can play in a modern hospital setting.In his new work as a professional musician, Andrew has met with experts in music, neuroscience, and medicine. Against the oddswith the help of musiche survived: A medical miracle.Once fully recovered, Andrew resolved to dedicate his life to bringing music to critically ill patients in the same ICU where music helped save his life. This moving and inspiring book tells the tale of a man pulled from the brink of death by music who, in turn, uses music as medicine to help heal others. Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional guitarist, had a close brush with death on the night of July 16, 2009. An Oliver Sacks Foundation Best Book of the Year selection, Finalist for the Books for a Better Lif
Along the way, Schulman posits that the relationship between the pain we feel and the songs and compositions we love has its roots in a tender, transcendent form of symbiosis." - Meghan Daum, The New York Times Book Review"Waking the Spirit is an inspiring story that teaches many important spiritual lessons, but the principal one is that to give thanks, you have to give. As a classical guitarist and composer I have witnessed music's power to heal, but nothing as dramatic as what the author, facing death, has been able to reveal.” - Liona Boyd, author of In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music "In the grand tradition of Oliver Sacks'Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Schulman cannily narrates stories of the ways that music can bring healing not only to the broken spirit but also to the broken body." -- No Depression, Journal of Roots Music"
"The amazing power of music strikes again!" according to Greg S.. Disclaimer: I have been friends with Andrew for a long time. We lost touch about 12 years ago and then we reconnected on Facebook in late 2009 - just months after Andrew had surfaced from his medical crisis, as I would later discover. It was business as usual discussing music, dogs, guitar, life, etc., until I read read posts by Andrew discussing the details of the crisis. Needless to say, I had no idea that this had happened and was . An amazing story of a professional musician and a near-death experience. Peter Argondizza Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul is an amazing story of a professional musician who, after experiencing a near-death experience, literally returns 'to life' and playing music by the healing power of music. Moved by this transformative experience, the author tells how he, was compelled to return later to ICU to heal others through performing live music at patients' bedsides. Supported by scientific i. A Journey Well Worth Following Carole Waking the Spirit is simply wonderful! It’s the perfect antidote to today’s depressing political scene, is full of hope, and inspirational. Andrew Schulman is a professional guitarist who finds himself in an induced coma in the SICU at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, the most desperately ill patient in the unit. As each hour elapses, he worsens and is given almost no chance of survival…until his wife reaches into