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Music can increase your IQ

Music can increase your IQ

Studies found that 90% of children exposed to music experienced physical changes in their brains and that allowed for increased transfer of cognitive information.

In a study conducted by York University, children exposed to music tested higher on verbal IQ tests involving word recall, information analyzation, and language-based reasoning.

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Music and heart disease

Music and heart disease

A common side effect associated with heart disease includes stress and anxiety. 

Studies have shown that by listening to music, stress and tension levels dropped in patients treated for coronary heart disease.

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Music can help you to control pain

Music can help you to control pain

Music is powerful enough to control all levels of pain when an injury occurs. Music helps bridge the gap between events when the brain experiences it. 

Creating music can have a positive effect on physical comfort, energy, fatigue, and anxiety.

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Music makes it easier to engage

Music makes it easier to engage

Music provides the foundation for social activities that help to connect people.

This is especially true if they share similar tastes in music.

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Music and hormonal balance

Music and hormonal balance

  • Hormones like cortisol get released by the body when we listen to music that we don’t enjoy. When the cortisol levels increase, higher levels of anxiety begin to appear.
  • When we listen to music which we are fond of, then dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins are released....

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Music improves your focus

Music improves your focus

This happens because music stimulates the entire brain and not just segments of it. Using this knowledge can help you in various ways.

  • Meditation. Some people use music to help them clear their minds.
  • Listening to music while studyin...

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Music improves productivity

Music improves productivity

Listening to your favorite music will help stimulate adrenaline secretion, and other hormones, which will boost your mental focus and physical energy levels. This is also true during exercise sessions and other household chores.

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Music can increase your emotional IQ

Music can increase your emotional IQ

Listening regularly to music that brings you joy can help you to identify facial expressions and body language associated with happy emotions.

Music therapy shows the largest improvements in emotional IQ with children on the autism spectrum.

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Music and personalities

Music and personalities

Several studies confirmed that particular character traits correspond to musical preferences. For example:

  • Opera fans are generally found to be gentle, creative, with a high level of self-esteem.
  • Country music fans are found to be outgoing and very hardworking.

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Music changes your perception

Music changes your perception

Fast melodies make time seem to accelerate. Slow songs make time seem to slow down.

Grocery store checkout lines and waiting rooms both use music because it alters a person’s judgment of time.

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Music and memory

Music and memory

Music helps with making memories from long ago feel relevant again. When you hear a song that had specific meaning to you in the past, the memory of that moment will come back with unbelievable details.

Alzheimer’s patients can sing the songs that they learned as ...

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Music increases your creativity

Music increases your creativity

Ambient music at 70 decibels will increase specific creative tasks by activating the parts of the brain that think in abstract ways.

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Music improves visual attention

Music improves visual attention

Certain types of music increase a person’s visual attention levels.

Stroke patients who participated in a small study. showed improved eye movement and task completion during the times when they listened to pleasant music.

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Music improves your reasoning

Music improves your reasoning

The rhythms of a song, together with physical actions, can help the brain to transfer memories of that moment to your long-term storage centers. Dancing to music has the same effect.

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