Music and Health

Music, one of the most important aspects of humanity, has been part of us for many years and now with the advance of science and technology, we can finally appreciate how beneficial it is for us. 

For decades, music has improved parts of human being like mood and memory and now some studies have come up to prove its beneficial effects on our bodies like the reduce of anxiety, blood pressure, pain and the improvement of sleep quality, mental alertness and memory according to Hopkins School of Medicine.

Listening to music as well as playing it is a kind of exercise for your brain, even being beneficial during the aging process. It is recommended for better results to challenge your brain with new genres you don’t usually listen to. 

Listening to different genres may be difficult at the beginning but use the exercise to explore how your body feels with each kind of music, then pick up the music that works better to make your body feel like it’s in a more relaxed and happy state.  

You can also go back to the past when listening to music from your childhood, bringing memories back to the present and exercising your brain improving its memory capacity.  

The effects of music on the brain are so variable that specific kinds of music such as Mozart have been proven to have results on student’s exams and been beneficial for memorizing according to Harvard Health Publishing. 

According to them, listening to music helps organize the firing of nerve cells in the right half of the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for higher functions allowing the brain to process information more efficiently.  

Music can even be beneficial for surgeons who showed fewer signs of stress and demonstrated improved performance while listening to self-selected music during their surgeries, indicating music is beneficial in stressful situations. 

You can opt for a kind of music which makes you feel happy, energetic and alert in case you suffer from depression, becoming one of the recommended therapies to treat heavy mental issues, not replacing medical treatment but becoming a great help which has been proven is beneficial in more than one sense for a better-quality life.