Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
Elevate your mood and motivation
A strong mental wellbeing is closely aligned with optimistic and positive feelings.
The bright musical tones and lyrics will change or elevate your mood and empower you for the day ahead.
Up-tempo, fast-paced music gets your brain and body moving, making you amped up and motivated to enjoy what’s ahead.
In fact, researchers have claimed classical and ambient music have the best mood-boosting benefits, while metal and hard electronic music were considered to have the opposite effect.
51
362 reads
Reduce stress
Whether playing in the background or you’re giving it your full attention, certain genres of music have the innate ability to reduce stress.
Soft, ambient music provides calming stimulation for the mind. In this case, best avoid loud rock or metal to moderate your stress.
If you’re looking to wash away some stress, search for playlists that contain a lot of ambient and quiet music.
49
201 reads
Improve focus
Trying to stay focussed and concentrate on an activity—whether that be studying, working or cleaning—can be difficult for some.
Certain types of music are known to boost focus, so it’s important to know which music is right for improving focus.
We recommend listening to instrumental, classical or ambient music.
50
225 reads
Help relaxation
Playing music is a simple way of promoting relaxation as it releases tension in your muscles, carrying away any stress or anxiety.
When your muscles are loose, so is your mind.
Listening to music as you drift off to sleep is also an effective way of relaxing and reducing stress as it can help slow your breathing and calm your mind.
47
175 reads
Reduce anxiety and depression
Understanding how music affects your emotions goes a long way to help ease anxious and depressive thoughts.
Music Therapy has become a popular form of treating anxiety and depression.
It’s an exercise in listening and composing therapeutic music to promote physical and mental rehabilitation.
In fact, a recent study by Dr. David Lewis-Hodgson of Mindlab International has shown instrumental, classical or ambient music can help reduce anxiety by up to 65%.
50
234 reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
Learning + Focus + Application = Success Medical Technology student from the Philippines 💉🇵🇭
Kyle Zamuel De Jesus's ideas are part of this journey:
Learn more about mentalhealth with this collection
How to choose the right music for different tasks
The benefits of listening to music while working
How music affects productivity
Related collections
Similar ideas
2 ideas
7 ideas
8 ideas
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates