Music & Emotions: Can Music Really Make You a Happier Person?
How many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?Music affects us all. But only in recent times have scientists sought to explain and quantify the way music impacts us at an emotional level.

BP Oil Spill Has You Stressed Out? Try Some Music Therapy!
Teacher, author and composer Edward Weiss has novel way to combat emotional pressure

Tuning the Music Therapist
Music so strongly evokes emotional responses that it is being more frequently employed in the context of psychotherapy as a powerful healing modality. As a novice in this field I inquired at a recent conference on music therapy as to how this tool effects healing in clients with emotional disorders.

Making a Difference -- One Family, One Home, One Day at a Time
Helping others achieve a better life is the goal of Joanie Winberb of the Happy Wednesday Foundation. Through her inspirational works and her work for the Habitat for Humanity and Children's Hospital in Boston, she is showing others she can make a difference.