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Mozart as Medicine: Music Therapy and the Health Benefits of Music
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Health Benefits Of Music
Music has been shown to play a role in healing our bodies and increasing our health and happiness. Studies show that music relieves pain in patients, and also relieves stress and anxiety by decreasing blood pressure, steadying the heart rate, and easing stress.
Music can boost our immune system functioning by increasing the growth hormones while decreasing stress hormones. Various studies have linked music to happiness and pleasure in a variety of ways.
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Limitations in the Findings About Music
- There is still ambiguity if listening to or playing the music causes the benefits.
- It is not known if stimulating or relaxing music is doing the healing.
- It is not known if the music is the person’s favourite music or of his liking, as opposed to something chosen by the experimenter.
- There are several other factors like a group playing vs individual playing of music, or a large random trial, which needs to be looked at in the future
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Music improves your focus
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- Meditation. Some people use music to help them clear their minds.
- Listening to music while studying or working can help you remember more of the information.
- During exercise. It takes the mind’s focus off of fatigue.
- Focus on sleep. Music calms the mind and causes you to focus on your rest.
Music increases your creativity
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Exercises For Posture Correction
- Plank: Hold the initial push-up position, legs straight. Don’t allow your lower back to sink, and make sure you are looking down at the floor.
- Wall Angels: Lean bac...
Posture Belt
Wearing a posture belt during the first few hours of morning is good practice.
- Place the strap over your upper back and hold the ends in each hand.
- Drape each end of the strap over its respective shoulder.
- Cross the strap in the back holding one end in each hand.
- Pull the straps so that you feel it in your trapezius muscles and secure the ends at the front.
Reverse Plank Bridge
- Keep your arms straight and pull your shoulders back.
- Bring your shoulder blades together.
- Tuck your chin.
- Push your chest up and extend your spine.
- Your fingers can be pointed forward or backward.
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Insomnia
- Thoughts and restlessness are a product of stress and worry and lead to a common problem: Insomnia.
- Being unable to sleep can cause further mental health issues like chronic anxiet...
Music And Sleep
Music of various minimalistic and calm genres has the ability to silence any sleep-preventing thoughts, with the positive distraction of music being safer and as much effective as a sleep medication.
Ambient beats, dreamy landscapes and delicate strains of the piano or the sitar (an ancient Indian guitar) naturally imbues positive mental states, infusing rhythmic color and emotions and creating hypnotic pulses that promote sleep.
A Sonic Environment To Doze Off
Though any slow music can promote sleep (provided it has around 60 to 80 beats per minute) classical music goes further and even impacts the ‘parasympathetic nervous system’ of the body, which is responsible for resting and digesting food.
Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes, 21 solo piano pieces that transform the mind into a dream state, are masterpiece compositions that even mimic the oncoming of sleep by ending without any ending, similar to how one never registers the exact moment one falls asleep.