Are you a Music freak? This is a piece of good news for you. Just know that anytime you listen to music, it causes your brain to release dopamine, which is a feel-good chemical. As a matter of fact, a research has shown that people love music for much the same reason they’re drawn to sex, drugs, gambling and delicious food! Not just that, the study has it that whenever you listen to tunes that move you, your brain releases dopamine, a chemical also involved in both motivation and addiction.
Interestingly, music has a profound effect on your mind and body. Some medical practitioners have deduced music as therapy for cancer patients. Also, it is said to help with pain management- helps ward off depression, promotes movement, calms patients, and eases muscle tension.
This is another fact that would interest you: Research has shown that music has a strong beat that stimulates your brain waves, which also affects your breathing and heart rate. Simply put, slower music brings slower breathing, and a slower heart rate brings an activation of the relaxation response. In other words, music can help counteract or prevent the damaging effects of chronic stress and can bring a more positive state of mind, helping to keep depression and anxiety at bay. You suffer high blood pressure? Try listening to some music; it has been discovered to lower blood pressure and boost immunity.
What are the other wonders of music?
• It entertains you especially after working hours. Then, music is the best ‘medicine’ for your tired brains, as it somewhat helps to eliminate stress and pressure. Everyone, after working and studying, really needs music to refill their power. A more powerful aspect of music is that it profoundly affects your sensation, or feelings. This can be seen from the roots of the kinds of music. Rock music was created mostly to reflect anger, whereas ballads must have come out from romantic love stories, or from a painful heart. So, music is the reflection of our emotions. When feeling alone or upset, you can listen to your favourite songs and be drowned in it. Music, in this sense, can be a good friend, who gently heals your soul.
• Music alleviates insomnia. Do you have problems with sleeping? Listening to music soothes your nerves. You drift off to sleep and get the rest needed since sleep puts your body in a healthy condition. This also takes away the effects of stress, depression and anxiety from you.
• Experiencing what is unpleasant? Let music divert your mind from such situations.
Music to choose from
Afro, Juju, gospel and highlife are some of what you can obtain on the Nigerian music scene. There is the foreign music genre with various categories such as the classical, jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop and country music.
But not every genre of music goes with your personality. It’s left for you to identify which suits you most. You can also have different tunes for different moods.
What more on this soul food called music?
• Daydreaming or finding yourself in an emotional, unfocused mood? Get slow music in the background for 10-15 minutes. It helps to steady your consciousness and increase your mental organisation.
• It affects the body temperature. Transcendent music can flood you with warmth while loud music with a strong beat can make your body heat rise a few degrees, while soft music with a weak beat can lower it. This is because music influences blood circulation, pulse rate, breathing as well as sweating.
However, as you sing and listen to music, learn to dance too. Dancing has a lot of mental and physical benefits. It prevents Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. The need to learn and remember numerous dance movements produces a constant and very beneficial challenge to the brain. Mental acuity comes from mental exercise and this applies to every one of all ages. Among mind-stimulating activities, dancing is unique because it provides beneficial physical exercise.
Learning one or two musical instruments is also important. It increases your memory capacity as well as refining your time and management and organisational skill. Learning a musical instrument can also help improve your reading and comprehension skills because music involves constant reading and comprehension in order to get familiar with notes and other things involved.
Most of all learning a musical instrument can promote happiness in your life and those around you. Thus, not only is it fun to play music that you enjoy, it feels wonderful to hear an audience applaud you for giving a great performance.
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