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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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....

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.

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, infor...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.