“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain!” ~Bob Marley
No matter what your emotional state is, I’m sure you must have observed that there is always some kind of music that just perfectly blends with your mood.
Various researchers too now provide a scientific backing to the positive effects of music on mental health that people claim. Not only does music help ease our pain, it has several other mental and physical health benefits as well. Read on to discover them –
- Music helps reduce the perceived intensity of pain.
- Fast and upbeat music increases your workout motivation and endurance. That is probably why a lot of gyms have music playing in them.
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Playing soft music in the background while having a meal reduces your speed of eating.
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Consequently, this reduces the amount of food you consume. This can probably be attribued to the fact that when eating slow, one is more mindful of what and how much they eat.
- It makes you feel happier by enhancing the blood flow in your vessels.
- It improves your sleep quality and helps reduce symptoms of insomnia.
- By releasing biochemicals that are meant for stress reduction, music helps you relieve your stress and also deal with symptoms of anxiety.
- Slow rhythmic music can alter brainwave patterns in a manner that produces a state similar to that while meditating.
- While heavy metal music might have an adverse effect on your depression, the right kind of music can uplift your mood and reduce symptoms of depression.
- Not only does listening to music make you more aware and in touch with your feelings, but it also promotes mood regulation.
- It helps improve your performance on cognitive tasks by increasing your ability to concentrate.
- Music helps you stay cool in high-pressure situations by decreasing your respiratory and heart rate. Thus, when stuck in traffic, or when going to play a game under a lot of pressure, turn up the music to calm yourself down.
- Music therapy is used to treat a lot of mental disorders such as Schizophrenia, Alzheimer, Dementia, Autism, Depression, Anxiety etc.
