heyitsmaye
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Past projects? Similar concepts?
During specialism, I have explored the concept of healing by sharing my experience in hospital due to having frequent asthma attacks in the Radio project. I found the medium of sound very effective when telling my experience as there are so many sounds relating to the hospital and sickness in general. There is also the unmistakable inhaler sound that is very specific to asthma. I wish to build upon this project during FMP by interviewing my parents not only because I cannot recall most of what happened, but also gives an insight into what it was like from their perspective.
Although I had difficulty with it at first, I wish to utilise stop motion animation in my FMP because it creates the more character and materiality than digital animation. I feel like digital animation would suit the more impersonal areas, where as the materiality is needed to create more personal details.
I wish to also somehow incorporate rubber stamping as again, it’s material nature would lend itself quite well in the subject.
For some reason, I had never bothered to research the history of my little blue inhaler, and I can’t believe how many models there have been.
From steam tents to cigarettes, from coffee to formulas that contain 3.5% cocaine, treatments and asthmatic equipment has come such a long way.
My dad once told me that back when he was a kid, the area where he grew up did not fully understand the cause of asthma, and believed that he was faking his attacks. He told me that his doctor would tell him that asthma was caused by ‘stale air’ in the lungs and that he needed to get rid of the air by lying to the side and patting the side of his ribs.
Music seems to be intrinsic to humans. Go to any culture in the world and you will find some form of it. Music is almost like a language, which can be understood by anyone.
When listening to music, the rhythm, melody, and beat will put your brain wave patterns into a better state. Music increases dopamine production, as well as serotonin.
Music also creates new connections on the brain due to the complexity of it. Music cab and will leave an impression on the brain. Especially music with words, as because of the pattern of wording, it can influence thinking patterns.
I think music puts the brain into a unique state, and can be considered exercise for the brain. Listening to music frequently can create complex patterns in the brain, leading to creative thinking.
In this episode of middle ground by Jubilee, loved ones and addicts.
Before watching this, I saw addiction as a selfish, solitary disease, however after watching it made me realise that it effects the ones around you just as much, arguably even more than the person battling with the addiction.
As someone who has no experience with either side, I found the fact that they all agreed with the statement ‘cutting ties with a loved one with addiction is ok.’ the most surprising because for some reason I have always thought that having some sort of support system was the most important thing in any healing process. However now I am realising how naïve that sounds. As said in the video, in some scenarios, cutting ties is necessary when the relationship becomes draining and toxic, and it also serves as a sort of wake up call to the addict. But what if this doesn’t work and it just further isolates the individual to the point where they fall deeper into their addiction.
It’s funny to think that back in the middle ages, having surgery was likened to going to the barber for a hair cut.
This was because surgeons were seen as lower class, whereas physicians usually served those in the court and in castles.
I found this strange because now you wouldn’t see a surgeon operating at the hair dressers, as they are now regarded as very important people in the medical world.
Barber surgeons did not have to study at universities, whereas physicians were accredited and licenced.
Through this, medicine played a role in the separation of upper and lower classes in the middle ages as only the upper class were ‘worthy’ of licenced medical services.
Healing: Introduction and intentions
The area subject ‘Healing’ intrigues me as it is something that every live being must go through, whether it be emotionally, mentally or physically. Healing can be regarded in many ways for example the process of returning back to a healthy state in a relationship or physically healing.
Healing in a medical sense has seen such a rapid progression in the last decade, due to so many pivotal inventions, such as recombinant DNA. This discovery not only helped to massively project the development of medicine that is used today, but also helped to solve crimes that were either left cold years ago due to lack of evidence, or free those who served jail time for a crime they did not commit.
Furthermore, the history of medicine intrigue me as it shows how far healing has come and could also inspire future methods. It is also interesting how the philosophy of a certain region at a particular point in time influenced their medical practices. For instance in the middle ages; a time of limited scientific understanding and when people placed their hopes and faith in the supernatural, came up with gory treatments such as whipping themselves in order to earn God’s forgiveness.
I would like to further research more alternative practices of medicine and compare this with modern medicine. Although it is what is most commonly used, modern medicine may not be the best route to recovery, due to the amount of side effects that are displayed. It could also be argued that most modern treatments are just quick and easy short term cures that force you to keep buying from the same supply. From the knowledge I have gathered of those in my family who have invested in Chinese medicine, although the results are not immediate they are long term due to each dose being altered according to the changes in your daily metabolic state.
I first became intrigued in wanting to further research healing after discovering Dr Emoto’s studies on how emotions influence the molecular structure of crystalized water molecules, proving the existence of human vibrational energy. Although some may believe this to be pseudoscience and that his studies conclude to nothing of importance, I believe that his studies at the least promote the idea of self-healing through manifesting positive energy towards yourself. I also found the dismissiveness of western articles writing about Dr Emoto’s theory interesting, as it reveals how despite not fully understanding the science and dedication behind his studies, they were so quick to label his findings as ‘pseudoscience’ as it did not corelate with the western ideology of science. During FMP I intend to further learn about Dr Emoto’s through reading his books ‘Hidden messages in water’ and ‘The true power of water’ as well as collecting research from other sources in order to come to my own conclusion in regards to the subject.
I also intend to gather information about the therapeutic benefits of music. Throughout the ages music has been a presence in the healing world from Native American throat singing to now being used to provide emotional and behavioural benefits to those with Alzheimer’s disease and types of dementia. This is possible due to the key receptors in the brain which are linked to music, are located to a different area of the brain effected by the disease. It has also been researched that listening to music improves the immune system by promoting the development of the antibody, immunoglobulin A which kills unhealthy or defective cells.
Mental and emotional healing after experiencing grief, a rough relationship, a traumatic experience or addiction is so personal, therefore it is important to research this in a way that respects the individual’s story and their route to recovery. At this point, I am not sure how to approach this subject as I don’t want to generalise an individual’s experience or make them feel invalidated.
I can certainly relate to the medicinal aspect of healing having spent half of my childhood in hospital. However despite me being the one lying on the hospital bed, I honestly didn’t have care in the world because I didn’t fully understand what was happening, whereas my parents and family did and now I know that seeing me like that was probably scarier than for them than it was for me at the time. In every healing, there is always a type of support system that aids in the individual’s recovery, for me it was the nurses and my family, for others it may be different.
· Native American healing traditions vary by tribe
· Health is “an expression of the spirit and a continual process of staying strong spiritually, mentally and physically”
· Herbs used by Native Americans used in modern medicine today
· Made syringes from hollow bones
· Before mid 1800s European doctors did not have any anaesthetics but many tribes did, so their surgeries were more humane
Music I commute to
Idles - Ultra Mono album, and never fight a man with a perm
motionless in white: thoughts and prayers, broadcasting from beyond the grave, brand new numb, rats, soft, untouchable, not my type, 570, reincarnate,
Nothing but thieves: I was just a kid, amsterdam, number 13, unperson, is everybody going crazy, ban the music, phobia, brother
Pvris: heaven, what’s wrong, gimme a minute, stay gold, old wounds, loveless, use me, things are better
pulp: disco 200, common people
Royal blood: lights off, hook line and sinker, ten tonne skeleton, trouble’s coming
drake: the motto
logic: homicide, soul food II, gang related, under pressure
Sondre Lerche: serenading in the Trenches
the 1975: love it if we made it, loving someone, somebody else, girls, love me
Music for taking a chill walk
honey waits - Keilan Creech
Turn the skies of blue on - Fionn Regan
A boy and his rose - Sean Heathchliff
Young folks - city of the sun
La lune- billie marten
oceans - tigers in the sky
Obstacles - Syd Matters
Jelly donut - katie kuffel
I will follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie
who knows who cares - local natives
veer - ara
big yellow taxi cab - joni mitchel
Music I enjoy listening to when studying:
Daughter: winter: new ways, numbers, human, winter, smother, still, lifeforms, no care, youth
Aurora: churchyard, dancing on the moon, daydreamer, the river, apple tree, the seed, mothership, gentle earthquake, queendom
local natives: masters, count, mother emanuel, ellie alice. cafe amerillo, when a i gonna lose you
Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
attack on titan soundtrack
Fleetwood Mac: landslide, dreams, the chain, storms
Tame Impala: the less i know the better, half full glass of wine
An analysis of how words and emotion affect the molecular crystalized structure of water
Also shows the structure of polluted water after being blessed and how it is similar to the structure of water exposed to positive energy, but before it was similar to the structure of that of water exposed to negative energy