This week’s Time Out New York features a story titled “Trebled Mind,” about Brain Music Therapy (BMT). As a life-long insomniac, music reporter Mike Wolf says he’s tried everything––save “those lame CDs of whale songs and Amazon rain forests”––so the idea of having his brain waves recorded and put to music wasn’t so weird. The therapy, he reports, was founded by Dr. Iakov I. Levine, a Russian doctor, in 1991 and is now dispensed by only one person in the U.S., Galina Mindlin in New York City. BMT records your brainwaves while you wear a mesh cap with electrodes, and then passes them “through a computer algorithm that composes the exact sequence of notes that promote both relaxation and activation (increased alertness and acuity) in that specific patient,” he writes.
Interests: Parenting (Jack 5yrs and Owen 3yrs), Human Growth and Development, Evolving Consciousness, Integral Life Practice, Coaching, Change Management, Creativity, and Freedom.
Inspiration: Witnessing my sons discovering the world and themselves, watching someone overcome all odds, listening to someone's deep dark secrets (and telling someone mine), a fully expressed performer, art, the rawness of humanity, and unconditional love.