Music Therapy: Effects Of Soothing Music To Our Health

Music has an insightful effect on your body and consciousness.  Music therapy is becoming more popular in the field of medicine.  It has grown tremendously in the field of health care.  Hospitals are now also into music therapy to help them with pain management, relieving stress, prevention of depression, reduction of muscle tension and for many other benefits that music therapy brings to a patient.  Having an in ceiling radio and in wall or in ceiling speakers inside a patient’s room or within the vicinity of the hospital would definitely help in eliciting the desired results and benefits of music.  Listed below are some of the effects of music to our body and to our over health:

1.     Prevention of Chronic Stress – Alterations in brainwaves can activate the relaxation response, thus putting you into a deep rest.  These brainwaves that are altered by the chnages that music brings can influence our breathing and heart rate.  Soothing music can slow down breathing and heart rate causing you to relax.  Try listening to jazz or classical music right now.  You will notice that your mood will change and it will just make you relaxed in a few minutes.  Be careful though, you might sleep while reading this article.

2.     Releases Stress and anxieties – King David once used music as a form of releasing his fears and anxieties to God.  Music has indeed been used for the longest time in venting out all the worries of life.  And as you release allyour anxieties, it lessens if not eliminates stress that can cause diseases such as cancer and heart attack.  It also relieves your body of the burden that anxiety has caused you.  Music helps you in expressing your emotions such as joy or sorrow.  In fact, the slaves also utilized music during the time where racism was so high in the US.  They cried out and vented their frustrations and anger through music, hence they survived that season.

3.     Increases Creativity – music helps in developing that creative part of the brain.  With this, our mind becomes optimistic.  One begins to see the beauty of life through music.  In fact, during the World War II, music was used to make those soldiers who were wounded to get up and learn to walk again and it was attested by according to Lee Anna Rasar, a musical therapist at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

4.     Tones our muscles – music is now used to make people’s body fit and healthy.  There are a lot exercises, which utilizes the power of music.  There’s Zumba and Ballroom dancing which can help in toning the body.  These exercises also improve mental ability of the person doing it.  It stimulates the brain and makes it more active.

Music is indeed powerful.  Scientists and doctors are still in search for more benefits that music can bring.  Although there a lot of facts that proves its effects, you should still visit your doctor and ask their opinion.