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Integrating Harp Therapy in Health Care Systems

While my harp therapy teacher's mission is to have a "harp player in every hospital and hospice by 2020," my vision includes: [...]

Integrating Harp Therapy in Health Care SystemsTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:10:22-06:00

Playing the Harp at the Nurse’s Station

Sometimes when I have my harp in the hospital, I have an opportunity to play at the nurse’s station. They love it! [...]

Playing the Harp at the Nurse’s StationTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:10:23-06:00

Music and Mystery

The Western model of medicine is based on research and medical technology. This is positive and gives us a certain baseline of [...]

Music and MysteryTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:10:23-06:00

Never Take Someone’s Hope Away…

On a recent trip to the hospital, I was preparing to take my harp into an elderly woman’s room when her nurse [...]

Never Take Someone’s Hope Away…Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:10:23-06:00

A Special Review!

The Daily OM shared this beautiful review about my "Blessings to You" CD with its 1 million+ customers. I am deeply touched [...]

A Special Review!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:10:24-06:00

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“David took a harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”

1 Samuel 16:23

“Seek out a wise player on a harp: and it shall come to pass…that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well.”

I Samuel 16:16

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“The human being is essentially sound, vibrations, and melody.…”

Holger Kalweit

“Surrounded by the right sounds, we all can be invigorated, energized, and balanced. It has been demonstrated clinically that music adds to our general health and well-being.”

John Diamond

“I am Music….Even before life began upon this earth, I was here—in the winds and the waves….And when Man came, I at once became the most delicate, most subtle, and most powerful medium for the expression of Man’s emotions….For I speak to all men, in a language that all understand….I am the food of love. I have taught men gentleness and peace. I comfort the lonely. I am a necessary luxury to all men.”

Anonymous

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”

Charlie Parker

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

Charles Kingsley

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“Through vibration, harmony, tone, melody and meaning, music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.”

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“The more we cultivate great music in our lives, the greater will be our attunement to unlimited sources of the Creator’s power and direction.”

Hal A. Lingerman

“Art is more than important—it is central to how we see ourselves, what we believe about ourselves, and how we present ourselves to each other.”

Bill Ivey

“Music is God’s best gift to [humans], the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven.”

Charles W. Landon

“Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“…the time is fast approaching when Man will select his music with the same intelligent care and knowledge he now uses to select his food. When that time comes, music will become a principal source of healing for many individual and social ills, and human evolution will be tremendously accelerated.”

Corinne Helene

“Music is an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Music speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.”