How well do you love music? I’m an addict. I could listen to music all
day. It’s that pleasant to my soul. I feel good. I don’t remember my worries. I pay
attention to the lyrics and even browse the most favorite ones on the internet.
Most radio listeners are music lovers. It’s a good source to know the latest
songs. Nowadays, with the internet, it is easier to download your favourite
songs. Just note the song title as well as the artiste, and then you are good
to go.
Music has
helped a lot of people with depression as it lifts the spirit, encourages you
and improves your health because of the joy and happiness it brings. A happy
music connects the physical with the emotional. As a result of the heightened
emotions, the responses are manifested physically as head nodding, tapping,
dancing and even jumping. When you
dance, you do a form of body exercise. By exercising, an internal heat is
generated and you sweat some more which is good for the body.
Scientists
say that music can give intense pleasure by delivering chemical rewards in the
brain that are equal to the joy of good food and a part of the brain, the
nucleus accumbens has actually been thought to be the structure that elicited
the strongest response. They say it’s important because it’s involved in
forming expectations and these are expectations that could be rewarding.
Music can
alter the heart rate and blood pressure under some specific conditions. If you
listen to rap or rock genres of music, the heart rate and mean arterial
pressure are likely to go up while the converse is true if you listen to
country and classical music. ( Research work by Sakomoto for the Journal of sound and vibration).
It’s been demonstrated that just like laughter does, joyful music
causes the blood vessels to dilate improving vascular health.
In another research by Professor Luciano Bernardi, a Professor of
internal medicine at Pavia University, Italy, he found out that music induces a
continuous dynamic and to some extent predictable changes in the cardiovascular
system. Some Italian researchers work was also published in the Journal of
America Heart Association where they said that music could in the future be
used as a therapeutic tool for blood pressure control and rehabilitation.
Music forms an important part of a gathering whether religious,
political or cultural. It is hard to find anyone who does not listen to music.
That is why I say that music is a mystery with still a lot to unravel.
You can also read this article on INFORMATION NIGERIA. Link: http://www.informationng.com/2013/07/opinion-the-effect-music-has-on-health.html
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