What are the amazing benefits of listening to Music?This is a question we all need to ponder upon.
“Music expresses what we can not be said, and about again it is impossible to be silent,” wrote Victor Hugo. It is essential to humans and has been for a very long time.
The earliest instruments found are 35,000 years old – bone flutes.
Flute my bone, said the caveman to the cavewoman, and dammit, she fluted well
When I’m not sitting in a café, something usually happens while I’m working. Sometimes classic, but mostly worn modern.
Even though I’m still angry at the music industry for not wanting to hear my triangle art, Music allows me to concentrate better, access my emotions more easily when writing, and generate more ideas.
And, of course, she has helped me privately thousands of times, hugged me, alleviated loneliness, and made things bearable in some way.
That is how it is and has been for many. “People weren’t always there for me, but the music was,” singer Taylor Swift said. “The only escape from life’s miseries is cats and music,”
Albert Schweitzer said. “If It is possible I can live my life again, I will follow one rule: read good poetry and listen to good music at least once a week,” said Charles Darwin.
There is now some research on melody and rhythm’s remarkable and surprising effects and how they make us happier, healthier, more productive, and even more innovative, which has been compiled at lifehack.org.
Music makes you happier. When we hear things we like, the brain releases dopamine, the body’s natural drug.
Neurologist Valorie Salimpoor injected subjects with a drug that measures the amount of dopamine released in the body.
The result: after 15 minutes of favorite Music, dopamine levels increased significantly, and with it, the feeling of happiness and joyful excitement.
So it doesn’t always have to be coke or an antidepressant when we’re in a bad mood.
Music makes us perform better when we run. With fast, motivating Music, the examined runners finished an 800-meter distance faster than slower or no Music, as researchers from Brunel University London proved.
Music heals. Above all, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and stress in our time makes
more souls and bodies ill than anything else. Just listening strengthens the immune system. The effect is most substantial when you make Music or tap your foot and are physically involved.
1.Music makes you sleep better.
If you have trouble in sleeping or sleeping through the night, try classical Music if you become a human roller in bed. In one study, students slept significantly better if they listened to relaxing classical Music, for example, by Bach or Mozart, for 45 minutes before bed.
This Music also worked better as an audiobook.
Music relieves depression syndrome” Music happens to be my refuge; I could crawl into a space between the notes and lean against it; it was safe,” wrote Maya Angelou.
The same study showed that listening to classical Music in the evening improves sleep and reduces depressive symptoms, the same survey showed. German scientists took a closer look at the role played by the type of Music.
The result: In addition to classical music, meditative Music best removes our melancholy. On the other hand, heavy metal and techno tended to worsen the situation.
Maybe it’s because there’s so little space to crawl in between the notes.
Music helps you lose weight. If you listen to soft Music with your meal, you eat fewer calories and enjoy it more.
Enhanced effect with dimmed lights. Like the romantic dinners (“oh honey, you cooked me a 7-course meal after work”) in the tearjerker movies.
Music makes us drive better. Better in the sense of safer. Because it lifts the mood and makes you more balanced.
My clear recommendation is not from the radio, as the moderators are often worse than tearjerkers.
They always remind me of the fairground screamers: “There’s fun here. Who has it, who doesn’t want it anymore, come closer.”
Music makes you learn better. Test subjects who were supposed to memorize Japanese characters could remember them better when they listened to Music and found the music positive.
2.Music relaxes patients before and after operations.
They are less anxious than if they take midazolam, a drug commonly used to relax people before surgery. This even applies to open heart surgery.
Music relieves pain. A study by Drexel University in Philadelphia showed that music therapy helped cancer patients with their pain more than standard treatments.
This connection was also found in intensive care patients and older adults – provided the Music was classical or meditative, or the patient chose it himself.
3.Music helps Alzheimer’s patients remember.
World-renowned neurologist and writer Dr. Oliver Sacks said: “The past, which we can no longer get to any other way, is enclosed in music like an amber, and with music, we can regain a sense of identity.”
People who can hardly speak anymore suddenly sing whole songs with one Smile on their faces ( here is a touching video of an older adult coming to life with headphones).
Music affects various brain areas and stimulates the nerve cells still intact, as the University of California Geriatric Clinic director explains.
4.Music regenerates after strokes.
Patients who listen to Music for two hours a day regain their cognitive abilities significantly faster – the piece must contain voice/text because the language center is stimulated more. Hyper, hyper.
Music improves verbal intelligence. I probably would have written without Music: Music improves verbal intelligence. So it’s worth it. It also helps young children to learn new words and their meanings.
Music increases IQ and academic performance. In one study, children who took 36 weeks of keyboard or singing lessons (what about the triangle!!?) performed significantly better on IQ and academic tests than those trained in something else, such as acting.
Music keeps the brain in shape as we age. Warren Buffett, 84, keeps himself busy with his ukulele. The more time people spend making Music, the better their cognitive performance in old age.
Because learning an instrument, for example, causes the brain to form new connections, which can compensate for breakdowns elsewhere.
So it’s more than just tri tra trullala, the good stuff from the speakers and headphones.
If you like, I would appreciate your feedback: How important is Music in your life? Is there a song that has particularly helped you through a difficult time?