A Good Start? A Sound Beginning!

Another effort to alleviate the pain and suffering of babies and children by raising the bar higher for the parents of the future.
Research information is now available that suggests that playing certain music to babies in the womb can actually help them learn specific logical and abstract lessons even before they are born. Information about lesson-teaching "womb-song" is available at the Center for Prenatal Music (The Universal Way is not affiliated with the Center for Prenatal and Prenatal Music, and receives no compensation for providing their link).

Research information is also available that strongly suggests that playing certain music to babies in the womb can be a stimulus to the development of complex and intricate neural pathways in the brain of the baby (now understood as one of the keys to intelligence; see Chakras and Brain Research Summary and Brain, but take the latter link with some grains of salt). These neural pathways are the highways that the chemical transmitters follow in the brain as it searches for information on a specific subject to return back to the main memory section of the brain for processing. The more complex and intricate these neural pathways, the easier and faster it is for a brain to process information. The specific types of music which can be found to be most effective as a stimulus to the development of complex and intricate neural pathways in the brain of a baby are compositions containing certain inaudible woodwind tones, and specifically effective have been found to be woodwind-inclusive compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This is known as the "Mozart Effect," and information about the "Mozart Effect" can be found at the M.I.N.D. Institute (The Universal Way is not affiliated with the M.I.N.D. Institute, and receives no compensation for providing their link).

Conversely, it has also been discovered that pain and traumatic stress experienced by a baby while in the womb, or by a newborn baby, can be correspondingly destructive to the development of neural pathways, and destructive to the neural pathways that have already been developed, potentially resulting in the development of many different types of neurological disorders (see Newborns and Chronic Pain Study: Pain during first days may lead to sensitivity as adult and Newborns Feel Pain and Neonatal Pain and its Effects and Neonatal Pain and Touch and Babies Don't Feel Pain: A Century of Denial in Medicine and Prevention and Management of Pain and Stress in the Neonate). In fact, a general pattern can be discerned from this area of research, that being that love and beauty tendered to a baby while in the womb or newly born, can result in the development of complex and intricate neural pathways in the brain of the baby, which is a key to the potential intelligence of the baby as it grows into a child; conversely, hate and pain inflicted upon a baby while in the womb or when newly born, can result in the destruction of already existing neural pathways, which is a key to the development of different types of neurological disorders.

Thus, from the research information that is now available it can be concluded that a combination of simple lesson-teaching womb-songs, followed later by any and all types of Mozart compositions, can be a remarkable way to stimulate the development of complex and intricate neural pathways in the brain of a baby while in the womb, and thus the potential intelligence of the baby, and can also be an effective catalyst towards soothing a baby that is kicking or stirring up a fuss in the womb for mother. Apparently, when Mozart is played while a child is in the womb (or even when it is a toddler), without the child even realizing it, the brain can develop complex and intricate neural pathways of high efficiency when it parses the musical input and tries to process the beautiful sounds to which it is being exposed. Babies who are played lesson-teaching womb-song and/or Mozart compositions while in the womb can have a better chance of growing up to be calmer and more well-behaved than most children and can have a better chance of possessing intellectual acumen and sincere, honest emotion.

However, the possession of complex and intricate neural pathways in the brain at any age apparently does not guarantee intelligence, since those pathways can atrophy through lack of use (through lack of appropriate brain stimulation) and/or the child may not make efficient use of their facilities because of lack of proper direction. Having instilled a child with a set of complex and intricate neural pathways that can often be seen in the eyes of a child, parents can also be responsible for the atrophy of those neural pathways by failing to provide the appropriate intellectual stimulation, or by providing certain negative emotional and physical stimuli to certain intellectual pursuits.