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Khon Kaen hospital uses piano therapy for psychotic patients

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Khon Kean Rajanakarindra Psychiatric Hospital in Thailand's northeastern province of Khon Kean offers psychotic patients piano lessons along with the usual range of treatments in order to help them build relationships with others for other types of treatment in the future.

Patients at the hospital usually gather and practice the instrument carefully. Despite the absence of musical backgrounds for most, they can play music by applying the “One-to-Five” technique, which converts the musical notes into the numbers 1 to 5. The technique, which is applicable for use on inexpensive keyboards, helps patients play the piano more easily in a short time and without pressure.

According to the hospital's expert nurse, Mallita Poonswad, playing the instrument gives positive results to patients suffering from various kinds of mental illness.

"The nature of these patients is that they're inert, don't really care about themselves and are usually lost in isolation," Mallita said. "But piano helps them concentrate better, as the sound of music helps their minds stay fixed on the notes or the numbers assigned to them."

Psychotic patients receiving musical treatment must volunteer to join this practice in groups of 6-12 persons. They must be able to communicate with others and their minds must be calm enough even though their general symptoms are chronic.

Treatment takes place three times a week, lasting an hour for each session. Sufferers are taught to use both hands to play the music, while applause and compliments are given to the patients to boost their morale, even if they are not expert performers. Each practice is recorded during the treatment in order to be evaluated musically for the patients' progress.

According to social worker Nuanlak Laohapan at Khon Kean Rajanakarindra Psychiatric Hospital, psychotic patients suffer from a disorder of their brain chemicals and of neurotransmitters.

"What we do helps the patients' brain with exercise together with medication. After four months of practicing the musical skills, patients will be stimulated more easily and their symptoms will improve when they're asked later to join other hospital activities," Nuanlak said.

She added that music positively affects brain relaxation and the playing therapy technique helps entertain the patients, make them happy and acquire their better self-esteem.

One patient in the hospital programme said, "If we play well and let our brains exercise, then we keep on playing and playing, and that makes us happy."

The “One-to-Five” technique is not difficult. Persons at any age can begin the practice. Music therapy can also be used to help cure other types of patient behaviours such as children with autism and ADHC (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), and with the elderly as well as persons with depressive disorders. (MCOT online news)

Vesak Day - The International Day The Lord Buddha's biography. How does it relate with Vesak Day? The Buddhists don't miss!!

The Sermon by the Most Ven. Phrarajbhavanavisudh (Dhammajayo Bhikkhu)

"Vesak Day – The International Day"

The appearance of the Lord Buddha is similar to the sun rises

and shines the light to all beings without any bias.

The Buddhist Communities light the Vesak Lanterns to worship

the Lord Buddha together on Vesak Day

Vesak Day is the day which we, the four Buddhist communities,

should persuade people to remind of the Lord Buddha and his perfection

pursuit since the first day until the last day. We should study

his Dhamma which is the light guiding their lives in the right way

and shining way to the heaven and Nirvana. Moreover, we should

come together to meditate to attain Dhammakaya which is the body

of enlightenment. We should find a chance to light the lantern and

circumambulate clockwise around the Buddhist pagoda to worship

the Lord Buddha. The outside is bright by the candle light; the inside

is bright by Dhamma light.

The Sermon by the Most Ven. Phrarajbhavanavisudh (Dhammajayo Bhikkhu)

Timetable on semester # 1

"Meditation Meditation for Beginners"

Meditation

Meditation for Beginners

Primitive Belief

It is likely that the proportion of suffering usually exceeds happiness.

People have to face a mixture of happiness and suffering throughout their lives. It is likely that the proportion of suffering usually exceeds happiness. In times of trouble, when we are prone to fear and worry about catastrophe, many of us search for physical and mental refuges that we hope can protect us from lurking dangers.

People have to face a mixture of happiness and suffering throughout their lives.

Since ancient times, many people have sought refuges by praying to sacred ones to fulfill their wishes. They believe that the sacred supernatural power entities in the nature such as mountains, trees, rivers, stars, the moon, the sun, or other deities can protect them from harm, poverty and sickness. In the present day, human society is going through a period of advance technology and materialism. In spite of this, there are still many superstitious people around. However wishful one’s thinking might be, trees, mountains, rivers and deities are a poor substitute for a refuge because they cannot completely protect us from the implicit suffering of life.

Young Childs

วัยเด็กจะมีพลังในการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ยอดเยี่ยม พวกเขาเรียนรู้ได้หลายๆ ภาษาตามที่คุณเปิดโอกาสให้เขาได้เรียนรู้

(Dr.Susan Curtiss, Professor of Linguistic, UCLA )

เด็กๆ ฉลาดกว่าที่คุณคิด! พวกเขาสามารถบวกเลขได้ ก่อนที่พวกเขาจะนับเลขได้ พวกเขาสามารถเข้าใจคำต่างๆ ได้เป็นร้อยคำ ก่อนที่พวกเขาจะพูดได้ และเมื่อ เขาอายุ 3 เดือน ความสามารถในการจำก็มีมากกว่าที่เราเคยคิดไว้มาก!

(Babies are smarter than you think – LIFE Magazine)

ESL Progress ~ Homophones / Japan / Phrases

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