Category: Charities

Music Therapy for Cancer Patients

Music therapy is a safe supplement to cancer treatment, offering patients relief from common signs and symptoms including pain, nausea and vomiting.

While alternative cancer treatments can’t heal the illness, they do offer some comfort and relief from symptoms. According to the Mayo Clinic, however, some alterative cancer treatments are unproved and can be harmful. Here is a quick look at one of the safest alternative cancer treatments, music therapy, and how it can help relieve signs and symptoms caused by cancer and cancer treatments.


Cancer patients often experience common signs and symptoms that can interfere with daily life including pain, anxiety, nausea, fatigue, vomiting, and insomnia. These signs and symptoms can make living with cancer seem unmanageable and overwhelming. However, music therapy — whether listening to Osho meditation music, playing an instrument or writing lyrics — can help relieve these symptoms. According to the Mayo Clinic, music therapy is especially beneficial for pain, nausea and vomiting.

Along with music therapy, patients have found that meditation is also beneficial when it comes to battling the signs and symptoms caused by cancer and cancer treatments. For example, Osho meditation music can lead the patient into various meditation techniques as they listen to soothing music in the background. Meditation is specifically helpful for relieving stress, anxiety and pain. There are many Osho MP3s [hot link] that explain various meditation techniques.

Due to its many benefits, music therapy provides comfort for cancer patients as well as people suffering from other conditions. Since music therapy is safe, you can choose to participate in these activities either alone, with a group or with a professional music therapist who can guide you through the sessions. It is also ideal for all types of people, including patients without any musical talent.

Osho Sannyasins have been spreading the good news about music therapy and meditation for decades. To learn more about Osho meditation music and other meditation techniques, please visit www.Oshoviha.org. The online retailer offers a wide variety of Osho discourses, meditation books, Tantra books, DVDs, CDs, MP3s, and more!

England’s Football Team Donates World Cup Fees towards Charity

For the first time in England’s football history, the team will donate their match fees set aside for the World Cup.

This decision means that the team, trained by Fabio Capello will be instrumental in raising over £1 million towards charities such as the Team England Footballer’s Charity Outreach Programme, the PFA, the Bobby Moore Fund, Children’s Hospices UK and WellChild.

Bearing the motto ‘Together we’re stronger’, the poster campaign was launched by the players themselves to create awareness regarding this first-time initiative and charities chosen by them.

John Terry said all the players had agreed to donate the match fees as they all agreed that being given the opportunity to represent their country was a privilege enough, and thus did not feel right to be paid for it as well. Therefore, the decision to make the donation towards charity was a unanimous one.

The team left for Austria on Sunday morning for a training camp. Five players involved in the FA Cup final on Saturday and Gareth Berry stayed back. They are due to the join the rest of the team on the 2nd of June. Meanwhile, they will work under Capello’s acclimatization programme which is fashioned around playing football at altitude. The five players who stayed back are David James, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Joe Cole.

The players in Austria will return to England on Sunday, when they are scheduled to play a friendly match against Mexico at Wembley. The 26th of May will see them going back to Austria in order to finish off their preparations before the big game. They have another friendly match in Graz on May 30th, which is against Japan.

Benefits of used car donation

Donating some of your possessions for charity is a noble thing to do. People don’t expect anything in return for their donation except perhaps a “Thank You”. But sometimes they can give you a tangible return, like for a used car donation for instance.

Automobile donation is actually tax deductible. However, it does not happen automatically and the therefore the donor must fulfill certain obligations. These include acquiring a receipt of the sale of the car by the charity and itemizing tax returns. While this is the only real tangible benefit, there are many other intangible ones as well.

By not sending the car to a junkyard, you are ensuing that it does not rot away there and take up space as garbage. By putting the car back on the road you are also reducing the demand for a car by one. This indirectly ensures that fewer raw materials are being extracted to produce a new car. Although old cars are often recycled, the benefit it gives is outweighed by the harm caused by mining for raw materials and the processing that comes with it.

The donation also helps a needy family by giving them a transport option. You never know, it might even become a means for their livelihood. The bottom line is that your donation will change someone’s life positively. If you are considering car donation in Minnesota, there are plenty of charities you can choose from. The easiest way to locate on that is close to you or your heart is to look online.

A list of Osho discourses

Ever since Osho left thousands of his followers, his teachings of syncretism have been anything but forgotten as his followers increase in numbers by the day. Regardless of whether you’ve visited the ashram or not, one can find popular and rare osho discourses in seeking to understand the wisdom and insight that he has left behind as a legacy for his followers.

Most of these discourses have touched on religion, philosophy, sexuality and on the subject of enlightenment. One of the key elements of his teachings is that every human being is a potential Buddha who is capable of enlightenment but only prevented by his or her ego. Apart from his discourses, Osho also is well known for the Osho dynamic meditation method, which comprises five stages and is normally accompanied by music.

Perhaps known as the most controversial spiritual guru of recent times, his message that spoke of emotional, spiritual, sexual and institutional liberation has led several world leaders and authorities in philosophy, politics and spirituality to consider him to be one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century.

Although, he departed this world on January 1990, his teachings that reflected true liberation can always be obtained in the osho mp3, cd or dvd format that one can use to meditate with in the peace and quiet of our own homes.

And perhaps this is how we can understand the genius of Osho, as is known by his followers from all over the world.

$45 Million Raised By Idol Gives Back

2010’s Idol Gives Back live TV special raked in close to $45 million; all in aid of health, hunger and children’s charities located in Africa and America.
The special live event organized by producers of American Idol, featured top rated stars such as Alicia Keys, Sir Elton John, Mary J. Blige, Carrie Underwood, Jeff Beck & Joss Stone, The Black Eyed Peas and Annie Lennox.

The show, which took place at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium was emceed by Queen Latifah and featured a number of special appearances such as President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates – who also partnered the event, Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, David Cook, George Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Morgan Freeman and Victoria Beckham.

The last two editions of Idol Gives Back raised approximately $140 million in 2007 and 2008. Donations poured in from the audience as well as the corporate sector.

Wednesdays’ live show was watched by over 18.3 million American’s on Fox TV. It was a show that was a lot smaller compared to the previous years, due to the economic recession and lower expectations. The $45 million should increase once the proceeds made via iTunes sales are added in.
Creator of American Idol Simon Fuller said that the generosity of the show’s viewers, sponsors and other benefactors was overwhelming and never ceased to amaze him.

The money raised will be divided amongst Feeding America, Children’s Health Fund, Malaria No More, Save the Children (US programmes) and United Nations Foundation.