Listening to music is good for you 馃幎
If you want to keep your brain engaged during the aging process, listening or playing music is a really good tool. Now we know that music helps to reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain. It also helps improving sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.
How do we listen to and play music?
A stereo system puts out vibrations that travel through the air and somehow get inside the ear canal. They are transmitted by electric signal that travels through the auditory nerve to the brain stem, where it's reassembled in something we perceive as music.
Music is structural, mathematical and architectural, based in a relationship between one note and the next one.
Music's impact in memory
Music can help retain essential information despite the memory loss. Music memory is stored in the hippocampus. This part of the brain is in the middle, so there are less chances to be impacted by age or diseases.
Musical mnemonic device is a natural way to learn and recall information. As children we learn information and beliefs of society with songs. Similarly, these memory techniques work with adults.
Music therapists
They assess emotional well-being, physical health, social functioning, communication abilities, and cognitive skills. Also they design music interventions for individuals and groups based on clients' needs.
Music's impact in our body
Singing, playing an instrument and dancing can improve pain tolerance. Listening to music is an enjoyable activity, so it can activate the release of endorphins.
Fast music tends to increase pulse rate and blood pressure. Slow music tends to decrease pulse rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate.
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