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by Russill Paul<\/em><\/p>\n Medical research now validates immense physiological benefits from chanting: lowered blood pressure, stabilized heart rate, improved\u00a0Circulation<\/a>\u00a0and the production of endorphins, which are the body\u2019s natural painkillers and mood enhancers. Music, too, is wonderfully therapeutic and employed in a wide range of applications today, including the treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s, sleep disorders and\u00a0Autism<\/a>. The therapeutic use of music is a tradition that can be traced back to Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. Medical science also validates the benefits of\u00a0Meditation<\/a>\u00a0in supporting healing processes that are preventive as well as curative.<\/p>\n Now, when you take the tremendous appeal of\u00a0Yoga<\/a>\u00a0and the growing millions of practitioners across America, and you combine all these approaches (chanting + therapeutic music +\u00a0Meditation<\/a>\u00a0+\u00a0Yoga<\/a>), you get The\u00a0Yoga<\/a>\u00a0of Sound, (New World Library, May 2006), a holistic and evolutionary approach that addresses several unhealthy conditions of modern living and offers a \u201csound solution\u201d to its problems.<\/p>\n