A Personal Experience of Unfolding Self Through Singing

Authors

  • Douglas Schneider, M.D.

Abstract

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is linked to the Unconscious, a relationship which has been therapeutically addressed with autogenic training, sometimes leading to transcendent experiences. The ANS is also involved in stored traumatic experiences and must be addressed for the release of stored trauma. Bodily storage of trauma can also involve the vocal apparatus. This report briefly describes a pedagogy of singing that involves the ANS and that lead this writer into an unexpected transcendent experience of self.
KEYWORDS: Autonomic, nervous system, vocal, singing

Author Biography

Douglas Schneider, M.D.

CORRESPONDENCE:

Douglas Schneider, M.D. • 5 Shipway Pi. • Charlestown, MA 02129-4301

References

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Lichtenberger Institute of Singing and Instrumental Music. Director: Martin Landzettel. Landgraf-Georg-Strasse 2, 0-64405 Fischbachtal, Germany.

Elmer Green, The Ozawkie Book ofthe Dead, Part 3 (The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, 2001).

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Vol. 16 No. 3 (2005)

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