How your health can be improved by listening to music

Posted by jeenniwill on July 16th, 2016

If you like listening to music and you do it regularly, you should know you are fortunate because music has many benefits for your health. Playing music every day helps improve the wellbeing of your body, mind and soul. By simply listening to different kinds of music during the day may produce several changes in your mood. According to research listening to music involves all the areas of your brain which is great for improving your wellness.

Find out what these benefits are below and once you've read it, I'm sure you'll find yourself listening to music more than usual to use the many advantages of it.

1)      Music relieves pain.

Many studies show that listening to music relieves pain in many cases such as chronic diseases or after and before surgery. Obviously, music which relieves pain should be either classical music, meditation or tranquil music. It's been proven that music is a distraction, which helps take control of our mood and makes our brain release endorphins.

2)      Improving concentration and attention.

Listening to music before or while doing a task, which requires a lot of attention, helps us focus on what we are doing because higher levels of stimulation to the brain allow us to be more concentrated. That means that we will do everything better and we will have more ideas to do the task the best way possible. Advised music genres to reach these levels of concentration and attention while doing a task are quiet and calm music.

3)      Music improves high memory performance, learning and IQ levels.

Many studies have shown that listening to music or playing a musical instrument improves our memory, learning results, as well as helps brain development and improves intelligence.

4)      Mood swings.

Simply by listening to music we can experiment with different moods. If we feel sad and we play music we can change our mood because it stimulates a different part of the brain. By releasing endorphins and stimulating different areas of the brain, music can help us loosen muscles and tension, resulting in a better mood. Music is used to improve many psychological diseases such as depression or anxiety because of its effects by stimulating areas of brain, which are responsible for happiness.

5)      Stronger immune system.

Scientists explain that music can create a positive and profound emotional experience, which leads to the secretion of hormones for immune stimulation. This contributes to a reduction of factors responsible for many diseases. Listening to music can also reduce levels of cortisol, a hormone related to stress. High levels of cortisol can lead to decreased immune responses.

 As you can see, music has a huge positive effect on our health, which apart from relieving symptoms of many diseases can improve our wellbeing in many ways. Listening to music is useful when doing a task by helping us do it better as well as helping us to get in a better mood.

 Many kinds of music can be useful in order to achieve some of these health benefits, choosing our favourite song to feel happier or relax by listening to tranquil music. 

 This article has been written by Juan Antonio Salvador, copywriter of SEO Agency in London.