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PASSPORT TO A GOOD COLLEGE
Eric Wharton′s story
”I can′t concentrate. I am distracted by everything around me when I try to study”. Sounds familiar? In many colleges and universities around the world this is a common theme. Around 40% of teenagers suffer from mild or severe depression. This can contribute to problems at school. Is there any hope for them?
Eric was distracted.
Eric Wharton, a former pupil of The Leys School Cambridge was one of those students who found it difficult to concentrate on his studies. It would take him up to three days to write a 2000 word essay! He was distracted and prone to procrastination. Wandering around his home, watching television, calling his friends and snacking diverted him from his books. If he eventually managed to focus on his assignments, it wasn′t for long periods of time. Even for the subjects that he enjoyed, for example psychology and history. His problems seemed to worsen when he moved from Canada to England to study, two years ago.
His help arrived in a form of a CD.
The Leys School was demanding. It was very stressful for him. The school day was long and when final exams came around, his problems with concentration were exacerbated. He turned to his favorite music but it didn′t help for long. After five minutes of study and listening, his mind began to drift. He decided to try something new. He came across ′Silence of Peace′, composed by John Levine. The information on the packaging read that other listeners reported benefits in concentration levels. Curious, Eric bought the CD. At home he listened to ′Silence of Peace′ while he studied. The minutes turned in to hours and Eric was truly amazed by the results.

15 hours are better than 2!
”Before using ′Silence of Peace′ I could only work for a maximum of two hours,” said Eric, ”But the first time I used it with my work, I worked from 11 in the morning till 2 the next morning”. During this time he studied History, Physics and English coursework, and was able to do all that he had to without falling behind. A substantial improvement was shown in his grades. Eric′s B grades turned into As. His marks went up an entire grade! He claims it is because of John Levine′s ′Silence of Peace′. His academic achievements have guaranteed him entrance into the top state college in the country, Hills Road Sixth Form College. Now anytime he needs to concentrate he turns to his ′Silence of Peace′ and his more recently purchased ′Silence of Heart′.

Eric′s future as a psychologist looks bright.
What does he say to other students who suffer from similar problems? ”Buy the Silence of Peace CD. It′s working for me. It helps me a lot. Listen to it to aid concentration and increase your productivity levels”.

THE BEST TOOL TO CONCENTRATE DURING STUDY
Daniel story
Daniel is the 10-year-old son of Katerina and Ken and attends a local primary school.He came to England with his parents from the Ukraine. He is full of energy, a very active child, who likes playing outside games. He swims and he used to be good at basketball. Due to the cultural and school change, and the younger starting age of children in school in the UK, he has had to give up basketball and focus on his studies. He is very competitive and takes part in everything possible going on at his school, which is great for increased social interaction and building new friendships, but adds more pressure in his busy life.

At home, Katerina has to sometimes repeat requests perhaps as many as three to four times, for Daniel to do mundane things, such as washing his hands before he sits down to do his homework. In that respect he is similar to many boys his age. He really finds it difficult to sit down and study because he simply hates this period of inertia and would much prefer to be outside playing with other children. Whenever he studies, Katerina needs to be with him all that time, because he can′t concentrate on tasks. He tries to find any excuse to give up. Katerina is also trying to teach him to write Russian. Russian letters are difficult to write and cause him a lot of trouble. After one or two sentences he gets frustrated and becomes very tired, although during that time he could have completed much, much more. He simply can′t concentrate sufficiently. Katerina has sacrificed her choir, of which she was a keen member, in order to continue working with her son.

Katerina decided that she needed to find something to help her son to cope with his concentration problems. ′My little Sea Shell′ was a gift for Daniel′s sister and had stopped Samantha from crying at night, calming her down. So she bought ′Silence of Peace′. Reading the back of the sleeve, she noticed that among the things that this CD has been reported to fight were concentration problems. After her earlier successes with Samantha′s different situation, she believed that it might also be beneficial for Daniel, to help him with his studies. It was certainly worth a try.
She put ′Silence of Peace′ on one day while Daniel was struggling to study as usual and within the first few minutes there wasn′t any difference in his behaviour. He seemed to not be concentrating at all, but looking around, asking for a glass of water - all the usual excuses. But gradually after fifteen to twenty minutes he became more and more focused on his tasks. He stopped showing signs of distraction and began to work diligently on his homework, even sitting at his desk for a staggering two hours without complaining and so he managed to complete all his homework exercises. Katerina was ecstatic. From that moment whenever Daniel studied or did his homework, Alphamusic was always with him. He did the exercises from the first to the last sentence without any interruptions. ”There is also more free time for me,” says Katerina, ”I don′t have to stand by him as much as I previously always had to do, because he is now far less easily distracted and can focus on the task in hand. I don′t need to look after him to make sure he finishes everything, and he can be left alone and trusted to do all his homework”. Katerina now can cook dinner without worrying about her son. ”I can still see him but I am not sitting next to him and trying to tell him what to do. He is doing it by himself,” says Katerina. It seems that when the music is played, Daniel doesn′t even notice, because he sometimes asks his mother if the music was on while he was studying. It is so much in the background that he loses conscious awareness that it is playing.

′THEY WERE FOLLOWING THE MUSIC AS IF IT WAS A CLASSICAL CONCERT′
Adult students with learning difficulties and mental health problems - their story
Working with difficult students demands patience and understanding. Being a special needs teacher you have to give all your heart to your dependant. The situation is very different and far more specialised than teaching students or people who don′t require that much attention. Teachers and classroom assistants have to find the right way to get students focused, interested and cooperative. They need an extraordinary amount of patience to achieve the slightest behaviour and learning response, but the rewards to teachers and students for each step forward is immeasurable.

Anne is an outreach worker and special needs teacher who works in lots of places with different groups of adults who suffer from learning difficulties, physical and mental disabilities and mental health problems. As a Community Education Tutor she provides various courses in the community for them; a job she has been doing for three years now and she has never regretted her decision to specialize in this area of work, and gets a great deal of pleasure from knowing she can make any small improvement together with these challenged and challenging students. Her students are all over eighteen years old. They suffer to varying degrees from autism, dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder, Down′s syndrome, visual speech and hearing problems, physical disabilities, emotional and behavioral problems.
Working with these students can be very stressful as they all require a lot of understanding, encouragement and patience to achieve their potential. ”The sessions are never predictable and you have to be prepared for any type of challenging behavior” explains Anne.
”I am always looking for resources to help in my classes”
It was a sunny afternoon, birds singing outside the room, and a warm fresh breeze was drifting through the windows where the students were being taught. An hour′s work with these students can be sometimes arduous, and everyone was ready to break from their studies the minute the session ends for the lunch break. Everyone was very noisy and agitated as usual, but this day was different, as Anne had prepared a surprise for her students. She asked them to pay attention to a new music CD which she started to play on the CD player after this noisy lunch break. She turned off the lights and all the students were sitting at their desks. They were listening to the music and stayed amazingly concentrated to the extent that the incredible noise from just a few minutes earlier disappeared completely. The adult students calmed down and some of them even slept. It was a big break through. Since that day this music has been played for them after the lunch time and is also sometimes played at the beginning of the classes themselves and the effects are always the same. Adult students are calm, relaxed and they find it easy to pay attention to what the teacher says.
What exactly caused this incredible effect?
A few weeks earlier, Anne bought a CD called ′Silence of Peace′ which had been reported to help people achieve the alpha state after few minutes of listening, which means they are concentrated, calmed down and more receptive to the learning environment. For Anne, when she bought it, it was just another piece of relaxation music. She wasn′t exactly enthusiastic about it, and bordered on the skeptical, but she decided to give John Levine′s Alphamusic a go. ”I am always looking for resources to help in my classes and the music is always very important to me” says Anne. Before she started using the ′Silence of Peace′ CD, she played her students classical music and although they showed signs of listening to the music, they were not calmed down by it, and if anything, they were very talkative and didn′t pay attention particularly well, but it was something different to the teacher′s voice to listen to. So the search for a better alternative had been progressing for some time until the moment Anne played ′Silence of Peace′ for her students.
Investigating to find a better learning environment
Anne had found what she was looking for her students lunch time activities, but could the CD be used to have similar effects at other times? John Levine′s suggestion to Anne, was to play ′Silence of Peace′ as background music, but she decided to do more than that. She turned off the lights in the room and asked students to listen to the Alphamusic while they were sitting in their desks and turned the music on loudly, so it made it look and sound rather like a concert. In fact they were following the music as if it was a classical concert!
After this, she turned on the lights again and started her teaching session, but to Anne′s surprise, with a markedly different response, because all the students were quiet and listening to her intently. ”Before that it was sometimes very hard for me to teach these students, requiring me to give a lot of myself to each of the learners so that it became very draining emotionally, and I often ended each day feeling unwell or with a headache. But since the day I started using John′s Alphamusic all my difficulties have disappeared”. After each repeated session of this kind, I felt rejuvenated and relaxed, whereas it had been very hard to achieve that kind of state previously” says Anne. She has already recommended Alphamusic to other tutors who also have very difficult groups with similar problems.

MUSIC THAT CREATES A PEACEFUL ATMOSPHERE AT HOME
The Parsons family story
The Parsons family own an amazing amount of Alphamusic CDs and they say they wouldn′t change any of them. Each CD has had a special part in their family life and does a world of good in their lives. When the family are having Sunday lunch together, the atmosphere is open and friendly; with no arguments, fights, or unpleasant words uttered in the heat of the moment to upset the ambience.
The eldest daughter, Anna (10), attends a very demanding public girls school as a day student and had been suffering from sleep difficulties. ”When mum bought this music I thought it was very nice, and I liked to play the CD in my own room. I eventually managed to rest and sleep more in the evenings,” says Anna. Her favorite CDs are ′Emerald Forest′ and ′Orange Grove Siesta′. She can calm down, stay concentrated on her homework for the whole evening and have a good night sleep with pleasant dreams. Anna has two younger brothers, Louis (7), and the youngest, Rafael (4) has just started school. All three children are energetic, intelligent, very extrovert children who tend to get over excited quite easily. ”It is good to have the Alphamusic to calm them down,” says Ruth, the mother.
The first time the family noticed that Alphamusic really works was three months ago when the children came back from school. They live in quite a small house now, so when all three children come back home from school at the same time and they all want to talk about their day at once, you can imagine, it can get pretty loud! They can be noisy, even screaming and shouting at one another during petty arguments. Ruth, put on ′Silence of Peace′ one day at this time and noticed a remarkable change in her children′s behaviour. They stopped screaming and calmed down. Louis and Rafael went to play with their Lego and Anna went to her room to study. The tense atmosphere simply disappeared. From that day on, Ruth started buying more Alphamusic to use in different situations.
The family usually goes to church on Sunday morning, and when they come back, the children run around everywhere through the house and cause a lot of noise. Ruth puts on ′Amber′ or ′Silence of Peace′ to calm them down, and it really has an immediate effect on them. When they play with each other, again they are noisy and often have arguments that cause one or more of them to cry. The best CDs for them during their playtime are ′Silence of Play′ and ′My little Sea Shell′. ”They don′t quarrel, fight or don′t shout so much when I also play them these CDs,” says their impressed mother. Ruth doesn′t have to discipline and has much time for herself to relax - she has even had time to join the local choir, confident that her husband or a baby sitter will not have any problems looking after the children.
During bath time Ruth puts on ′Orange Grove Siesta′. It helps them to relax before bedtime so that she doesn′t have any problems settling them down and getting them off to sleep right through until morning, when they awake refreshed, and full of energy to face the coming day. Ruth still uses Alphamusic everyday. Whilst being interviewed for this article, she realized that the music had just stopped and she noticed something missing. Their lives seemed to be in tune with the music. ”John′s Alphamusic definitely makes things better,” summarized Ruth.