A Conversation with Susan Mazer, PhD.
Not long after developing the tools of guided imagery meditation and Selective Awareness (mindfulness), I discovered how much more powerful they were when skillfully wedded to beautiful music and nature sounds. Not long after that, I met Susan Mazer, and we performed together, blending the uniquely beautiful sound of her harp with my voice. The results were spectacular!” – Emmett Miller
Dr. Mazer has a doctoral degree in Human and Organizational development as well a Master of Arts in Musicology, and has come a long way since that time 30 years ago. She has produced a huge library of beautiful nature images and soothing music that is available to every patient in more than 700 hospitals. Check it out when you are next in a hospital – it is the CARE Channel. She has gained professional recognition for her work demonstrating the need to counteract the noise in hospital and other healing environments.
In this warm and personal discussion, you will get to know the woman herself and her concepts of how music can shift the sense of time and place to enable patients to claim their identity in the healing process, overcoming helplessness, and speeding recovery. She will reveal why she sees the environment as a primary tool in the healing process, and quotes Florence Nightingale’s observations on this point. If you or those you love become ill, it would be good to understand this oft-neglected tool of healing.
And, especially, you will experience Dr. Mazer’s transcendent harp solo and together with some guided imagery with Dr. Miller – their first collaboration in more than 30 years. You’re going to love this episode!
Dr. Miller can be heard on Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network.
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