You do not have to be a professional musician to know that you enjoy listening to music, but are you also aware that research shows music has significant benefits for your health and well-being? From chants to drums to the power of sound itself, our brains thrive on music. Music (or sound making) is found in every culture, and is now working its way into hospitals and clinics and therapy rooms.
Music activates the amygdala, as well as areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in abstract decision making. “When we’re listening to music, the most advanced areas of the brain tie in to the most ancient.” (Why Your Brain Craves Music, by Michael D. Lemonick, April 2013)
IQ has been shown to be boosted by listening to certain music.
Music affects our bodies and our minds.
Pain can be diminished, and even death itself can be experienced as less traumatic through the use of music.
Music affects our pulse, our blood pressure, and our emotions.
Playing an instrument integrates skills and benefits emotions and brain development and eliminates stress.
The benefits of music and sound studied by Don Campbell (author of The Mozart Effect) also includes the study of how we listen and the therapeutic benefits of silence. (See: The Roar of Silence: Healing Powers of Breath, Tone and Music.)
This week, be aware of how you are affected by what you are listening to. Listen well…
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Rev. Debra Basham
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