Essential Musical Intelligence

Music fills our lives. From TV commercials to the car radio, we rarely live one single day without hearing a song. But what if you could consciously use music to foster self-awareness, creativity, and, ultimately, deep healing of the body, mind, and spirit? Through her clinical practice and research, Dr. Louise Montello has discovered what she calls Essential Musical Intelligence - our innate ability to use music and sound to bypass the defenses of the conscious mind and move directly into the emotional/soul centers where true healing can occur. This groundbreaking book draws from the wisdom of Eastern philosophies and guides us through a systematic musical journey where we learn a series of clinically proven EMI exercises to balance and harmonize all five levels of consciousness – the body, breath/energy, mind, imagination/intellect, and the realm of bliss - leading to deep and lasting change. The book is full of case histories and personal anecdotes that speak of the wondrous results of integrating EMI into people's lives. Essential Musical Intelligence is a powerful new system of self-healing which is deeply intuitive, creative, spiritually arousing, and fun - encouraging us to find and sing the song of the soul daily as we enjoy ever increasing states of health, creativity and well-being.

304 pages

About the author: Louise Carus is a Jungian analyst who grew up in La Salle, Illinois and studied anthropology and psychology at the University of Chicago. Her first job was at the Orthogeneic School at the University of Chicago. She then joined the American Friends Service Committee as a relief worker in Germany. Later she studied and graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich while teaching English at the Swiss Teachers’ Training College. She lived in the Zürich area from 1957 to 1976. With filmmaker Mark Whitney, she filmed children’s psychological reactions to the atomic bomb in Zürich, Moscow, and Hiroshima. Through this experience she became interested in rites of passage for youth and mid-life age groups. This led to editing two books on various aspects of this subject. Betwixt and Betweendeals with various rites of passage in history and in different cultures. Crossroads,her second book, focuses on contemporary aspects of adolescent transitions. Louise lives in a small town about 100 miles from Chicago, but travels extensively in researching her book material. Each summer she enjoys the Vision Quest camps that she helped to develop. Held on a remote wilderness island in Lake Temagami, Ontario, the camps provide courses in passages for both girls and adults.