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Amazing stuff:
The Mozart Effect.
"The vocal nourishment that the mother provides to her child is just as important to the child's development as milk."
- Alfred Tomatis M.D.
"Weighing just over one-and-a-half pounds, Krissy was born prematurely in a Chicago hospital with a life-threatening condition. Doctors put her on total life support. Other than an occasional pat on the head, the only positive stimulation she received was from constant infusions of Mozart that her mother
begged nurses to pipe into the neo natal unit. Doctors did not think Krissy would live; her mother believes that music saved her daughter's life.
Krissy could not sit up at age one and did not walk until she was two. Her motor skills were poor, and she was anxious, introverted and uncommunicative. Despite all this, at age three she tested far ahead of her years in abstract reasoning. One evening her parents took Krissy to a short chamber music concert. For days afterward, Krissy played with an empty tube from a paper towel roll, which she placed under her neck and 'bowed' with a chopstick. Enchanted, her mother enri\olled Krissy in Suzuki violin lessons with Vicki Vorrieter in Chicago, and the four-year-old girl could immediately reproduce from memory pieces several levels beyondher physical ability. Over the next two years, her strength and co-ordination on the instrument began to catch up with her mental capacity. With the support and encouragement of her parents, teachers, and fellow students, who were trained to perform in a group spirit, Krissy stopped wringing her hands in fear and began to socialize. Through a combination of pluck and grace, the little girl who was born weighing less than her violin could now express herself - and be whole.
Peace, Profit and Multiple Orgasms
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