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Product DescriptionSound therapy has been found effective in treating a surprising range of health challenges including heart disease, arthritis, stress, emphysema, and more. On Self-Healing with Sound and Music, bestselling author and physician Dr. Andrew Weil teams up with sound therapist Kimba Arem to offer listeners a powerful new tool for healing on two CDs. About the AuthorDr. Andrew Weil, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and for 15 years was a research associate in enthnopharmacology at the Harvard Botanical Museum. As a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, he traveled extensively throughout the world collecting information about the medicinal properties of plants, altered states of consciousness, and healing. He is Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he practices natural and preventive medicine. Kimba Arem is a performer and recording artist, and has been a musician since age seven with classical training in piano and flute. She received a B.S. in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Arizona in 1993. While attending acupuncture graduate school studying Chinese Taoist Medicine, she was introduced to sound therapy. Since then she has developed her own unique practice, grown out of extensive subtle energy training in sound as medicine, herbology, Reiki (master level) and aromatherapy. Kimba also works with light and color, and has incorporated these diverse elements into her frequency therapy practice in Kauai, Hawaii. Her main instrument is the Australian didjeridu, but she also uses Native American flutes, four-chambered Celtic flute, Tibetan and crystal bowls, keyboards, tingshaws, tuning forks, a harp, vocal overtoning, and recites various therapeutic mantras from different cultures around the world. Kimba has released eight CDs and tours internationally, playing at conferences and at institutes around the world. She is the founding member of Heartherapy; an organization dedicated to educating and assisting the planet in gentle awakening through sound.On Self-Healing with Sound and Music double CD, bestselling author and physician Dr Andrew Weil teams up with sound therapist Kimba Arem to offer listeners a powerful new tool for healing.Sound therapy has been found effective in treating a surprising range of health challenges including heart disease, arthritis, stress, emphysema and more.On Self-Healing with Sound and Music CD One, Dr. Weil discusses the latest in medical research that demonstrates how music heals the body and mind, while Kimba Arem teaches breathing and vocalization techniques for harnessing this potential. CD Two gives listeners just the music: a complete sound journey into expanded states of consciousness optimized for healing. Through an integration of ambient beats, natural sounds, indigenous and classical instruments—and a state-of-the-art recording process called HolophonicTM technology that creates a three-dimensional healing space—listeners experience ‘prescription strength music’  with the power to influence every system of the body.Useful for relaxation, meditation, bodywork, or creative endeavors, Self-Healing with Sound and Music features didjeridoo, Native American and Celtic flutes, Tibetan and crystal bowls, keyboards and voice.Enjoy Self-Healing with Sound and Music double CD by Dr Andrew Weil and sound therapist Kimba AremREVIEWSMy favorite relaxation CD and I’ve tried many!I’ve borrowed many “relaxation” CDs from the public library to combat stress. This is one of the very few that I decided to buy. The first CD is mostly talk by the two authors, but I often play the second all-music CD at bedtime, at naptime, or to help me go back to sleep when I awaken too early or in the middle of the night.My favorite relaxation CD and I’ve tried many!I’ve borrowed many “relaxation” CDs from the public library to combat stress. This is one of the very few that I decided to buy. The first CD is mostly talk by the two authors, but I often play the second all-music CD at bedtime, at naptime, or to help me go back to sleep when I awaken too early or in the middle of the night.Great music for relaxation and meditationI hate New Age music if it uses a lot of synthesized sounds and tries to sound like it’s coming from outer space. I like music that is played on real instruments, and I don’t mind if it inocorporates sounds from nature, along with it. This music is very relaxing and very natural and real sounding. That is because it IS real. It uses various acoustic instruments which are played in a way that creates a very soft, relaxing environment which is conducive to meditation and relaxation. Unfortunately the music is only on Disc TWO. The first disc consists of Dr. Andrew Weil and the musician here (Kimba Arem) talking about sound therapy and the physics of sound, and meditation with Om type sounds, and so on. It’s interesting, but not terribly enlightening and you’ve probably heard it all before if you’ve read much new age therapy material. To me, this should only have been a single cd, the music cd. I think it was a way of Arem getting herself introduced to a wider audience, and Dr. Weil lending his “seal of approval” to this music and musician. Either way, at least they did come up with one really great music album, (which Weil has nothing to do with, other than to introduce it and endorse it), and this makes me want to hear more of Kimba Arem’s music.Soothing mind, soothing soul, opening heart.When you play this CD you first notice that is speaks to your mind. Then you notice that it speaks to your soul and while soothing both mind and spirit. But what comes next is the real treat; it opens your heart and you expand to ride the vibrations of sound that Kimba has created for you. And it does feel like she composes and plays just for you. This is a must-have CD crafted by two very gifted teachers.