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There’s a familiar moment when a song does more than play in the room. Your breathing slows, posture unknots, and the jittery background noise of the day falls into line. Daniel Levitin’s new book, Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power, is a 300-page argument that this feeling is not a party trick. It is physiology. It is psychology. And, more and more, it is becoming clinical practice. Published last month to wide attention, the book stakes out a practical, evidence-first case for sound medicine as a companion to traditional care, while inviting ordinary listeners to use...

Have you ever wondered what is really happening in your brain when you sit down to meditate? You might think of meditation as simply “quieting the mind,” but beneath the surface, your brain is staging an intricate performance. Electrical rhythms shift, networks reorganize, and regions that normally chatter away begin to fall silent. You close your eyes. The world narrows. At first, the echoes of the day are still alive—thoughts of unanswered emails, conversations replayed, tasks half-finished. In these opening moments of meditation, your brain is still humming with beta brain waves (13–30 Hz). These frequencies are the signature of...

You’re twenty minutes into deep work. The world narrows, the cursor glides, thoughts line up. Then—ping. A notification splinters your attention. Half an hour later you catch yourself wandering the internet without purpose—scrolling, clicking, drifting—and wonder: where did that locked‑in feeling go? Focus is fragile, but it isn’t mysterious. Under the surface, your brain is running a rhythmic conversation between two dominant frequency bands: alpha (a calm, ready kind of awareness) and beta (an active, outward‑facing drive). The quality of that conversation—the balance between alpha and beta—decides whether you feel centered and clear, restless and scattered, or blissfully in the...

We all know the feeling: you sit down to concentrate, only to find your attention slipping away almost immediately. One moment you're ready to work, the next you're scrolling through your phone, looking at random stuff—frustrated, distracted, and unable to click into gear. In a world designed to hijack your attention, staying focused has become a rare skill. And the assault on our attention is only intensifying. While our minds naturally wander from within, the digital world around us compounds the challenge. With the rise of generative AI tools and a tidal wave of algorithmically tailored content, our mental bandwidth...