Top Benefits of Listening Music

Music is one of the few activities that involves using the whole brain. It is intrinsic to all cultures and can have surprising benefits not only for learning language, improving memory and focusing attention, but also for physical coordination and development. Of course, music can be distracting if it's too loud or too jarring, or if it competes for our attention with what we're trying to do. But for the most part, exposure to many kinds of music has beneficial effects:

1.EFECTIVE THERAPY FOR PAIN

Overall, music does have positive effects on pain management. Music can help reduce both the sensation and distress of both chronic pain and postoperative pain. Listening to music can reduce chronic pain from a range of painful conditions, including osteoarthritis, disc problems and rheumatoid arthritis, by up to 21% and depression by up to 25%, according to a paper in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Music therapy is increasingly used in hospitals to reduce the need for medication during childbirth, to decrease postoperative pain and complement the use of anesthesia during surgery.

v  There are several theories about how music positively affects perceived pain:
- Music serves as a distractor
- Music may give the patient a sense of control
- Music causes the body to release endorphins to counteract pain
- Slow music relaxes person by slowing their breathing and heartbeat.

2.REDUCING BLOOD PRESSURE

By playing recordings of relaxing music every morning and evening, people with high blood pressure can train themselves to lower their blood pressure - and keep it low. According to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in New Orleans, listening to just 30 minutes of classical, Celtic or Piano music every day may significantly reduce high blood pressure.

3.MEDICINE FOR THE HEART

Music is good for your heart. Research shows that it is musical tempo, rather than style. Italian and British researchers recruited young men and women, half of whom were trained musicians. The participants slipped on head phones and listened to six styles of music, including rap and classical pieces, with random two-minute pauses. As the participants kicked back and listened, the researchers monitored their breathing, heart rates and blood pressure. The participants had faster heart and breathing rates when they listened to lively music. . When the musical slowed, so did their heart and breathing rates. Some results were surprising. During the musical pauses, heart and breathing rates normalized or reached more optimal levels. Whether or not a person liked the style of music did not matter. The tempo, or pace, of the music had the greatest effect on relaxation.

4.SPEEDS POST-STROKE RECOVERY

A daily dose of one's favorite slow melodies, classical music or undestructive music can speed recovery from debilitating strokes, according to the latest research. When stroke patients in Finland listened to music for a couple of hours each day, verbal memory and attention span improved significantly compared to patients who received no musical stimulation, or who listened only to stories read out loud, the study reports.

5.CHRONIC HEADACHES &MIGRAINE

Only slow music can help migraine and chronic headache sufferers reduce the intensity, frequency, and duration of the headaches.

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6.MUSIC BOOSTS IMMUNITY

Music can boost the immune function. Scientists explain that a particular type of music can create a positive or negative (depending on its type) and profound emotional experience, which leads to secretion of immune-boosting hormones. This helps contribute to a reduction in the factors responsible for illness. Listening to music or singing can also decrease levels of stress-related hormone cortisol. Higher levels of cortisol can lead to a decreased immune response.

7.MUSIC ENHANCES INTELLIGENCY, LEARNING AND I.Q

The idea that music makes you smarter received considerable attention from scientists and the media. Listening to music or playing an instrument can actually make you learn better. And research confirms this.

Music has the power to enhance some kinds of higher brain function:

Ø  Reading and literacy skills.

Ø  Spatial-temporal reasoning.

Ø  Mathematical abilities1 - Even children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder benefit in mathematics tests from listening to music beforehand.

Ø  Emotional intelligence

8.MUSIC IMPROVES MEMORY PERFORMANCE

The power of music to affect memory is quite intriguing. Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activates the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, cause the brain to be more capable of processing information. Listening to music facilitates the recall of information19. Researchers have shown that certain types of music are a great "keys" for recalling memories. Information learning while listening to a particular song can often be recalled simply by "playing" the songs mentally.Musical training has even better effect than just listening to classical music. There is clear evidence20, that children who take music lessons develop a better memory compared with children who have no musical training.
Note: For learning or memory performance, it's important that music doesn't have a vocal component; otherwise you're more likely to remember the words of the background song than what you're supposed to be recalling.

9.MUSIC IMPROVES CONCENTRATIN AND ATTENTION

Easy listening music or relaxing classics improves the duration and intensity of concentration in all age groups and ability levels. It's not clear to many people, what type of music is better, or what kind of musical structure is necessary to help, but many studies have shown significant positive effects caused by classical music.

10.MUSIC IMPROVES BODY MOVEMENT AND COORDINATION

Music reduces muscle tension and improves body movement and coordination. Music may play an important role in developing, maintaining and restoring physical functioning in the rehabilitation of persons with movement disorders.

11.THE MOZART EFFECTS

Earlier it has been discovered  that listening to classical music, particularly Mozart, enhances performance on cognitive tests. However,there are recent findings showing that listening to music that is personally enjoyable has positive effects on cognition.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Music calms, relaxes and helps to sleep”.

12.RELAXING MUSIC INDUCES SLEEP

Relaxing classical music is safe, cheap and easy way to beat insomnia. Many people who suffer from insomnia find that Bach music helps them. Researchers have shown that just 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a restful night.
Relaxing music reduces sympathetic nervous system activity, decreases anxiety, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate and may have positive effects on sleep via muscle relaxation and distraction from thoughts.

13.MUSIC REDUCES STRESS AND AIDS RELAXATION

Listening to slow, quiet classical music, is proven to reduce stress3. Countless studies have shown that music's relaxing effects can be seen on anyone, including newborns.
One of the great benefits of music as a stress reliever is that it can be used while you do your usual deeds so that it really doesn't take time.

14.REDUCE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

 Music, especially upbeat tunes, can take your mind off what stresses you, and help you feel more optimistic and positive. This helps release stress and can even help you keep from getting as stressed over life's little frustrations in the future