Music can affect people's psychological activities, and different music brings people different feelings. Soft and melodious music can soften people's hearts, high-pitched music can cheer people up, melancholy music can make people depressed, and being beleaguered on all sides can make people feel depressed. Different rhythms, different melodies, different contents, and different intensities of music have different effects on people's mental activities.
In principle, music can regulate the excitatory and inhibitory processes of the human cerebral cortex, limbic system and autonomic nervous system, playing an exciting and calming role, thereby changing people's thinking and emotions. Emotions, volitional behavior and muscle and visceral activities.
As early as ancient times, doctors of traditional Chinese medicine have been studying the relationship between sound, music and human organs. They once pointed out that the relationship between the five tones and the internal organs of the human body is equivalent to the five tones of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in contemporary music. These five tones are respectively related to the spleen, lungs, and organs of the human body. Related to liver, heart and kidneys.
Predecessors have used music for clinical treatment. For example, Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty suffered from "soul syndrome", which manifested itself as melancholy, quietness, inactivity, dullness, etc. He took many medicines but had no effect. Later, I got better after listening to "Gongyin" music. After listening to it regularly, my mood became happy, and my symptoms gradually improved until I was cured. Ouyang Xiu said: "It is better to treat depression with medicine than with music."
Music works through the central nervous system and neurohumoral fluids such as hormones, neurotransmitters, and enzymes, so it can prevent and treat depression and improve patients' health. It can improve attention, enhance memory, enrich thinking imagination, strengthen self-information, eliminate bad emotions and behaviors, change outlook on life and withdrawn personality, so that patients can be refreshed, energetic, good at entering, and motivated.
In addition, music can also play a role through the physical factors of vibration of human internal organs and muscles caused by sound wave vibration. Music can enhance human muscle strength, coordinate movements, dilate blood vessels, and relax the respiratory tract. Smooth muscle relaxation relieves spasms, enhances secretion of digestive glands, slows down the heart rate, improves blood supply to the heart and brain, and enhances metabolism.
Music has no national boundaries, and patients from all countries can choose music therapy. At the end of 2013, Canadian singer Avril Lavigne was diagnosed with Lyme disease and had to temporarily retire from the stage. Later, she struggled with the disease for five years and finally recovered and returned to the stage. Lavigne told fans: "My music heals me and energizes me." Indeed, music can increase the number of immune cells and enhance people's immunity. Avril Lavigne's song "Head Above Water" is the "healing medicine" for her disease, helping Avril Lavigne defeat the disease.
Music can not only treat physical diseases, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, gastritis, etc., but can also help treat psychological diseases, such as helping patients with depression relieve their depression and make them happy.
From the perspective of listening to music, when the emotions expressed in the music match the listener's mood, it will evoke the listener's thoughts and introspection. Or under the influence of music, it can trigger the listener's unlimited imagination. For example, listening to peaceful music can make people think of the plants and trees of nature and the sunny land, which can make people have a better yearning for life. When we listen to music attentively and are intoxicated by it, our body and mind will naturally relax, which can relieve our fatigue and stress.
Music therapy is a treatment method that has no other side effects on the disease. If we are sick or in a bad mood, we can ask a psychological counselor or someone in related professions to choose suitable music for mediation. You will find that when you are immersed in the music, the pain will be less.