Listening to music is something that many of us do every day, so do you know what benefits listening to music has for us? Here are the benefits and functions of listening to music that I have compiled for you. Let’s take a look. !
Benefits of listening to music
1. Music can relax the body. Good music can relieve stress and avoid chronic diseases caused by autonomic nervous system imbalance.
2. Music can open a closed mind and relieve depression and depression. Music can even provide some degree of spiritual healing.
3. Music can stimulate the brain and activate brain cells. Appropriate music stimulation is of great help to brain activities and even prevents aging.
4. Music can enhance creativity, planning and stimulate the right brain, especially classical music, which is very helpful for the training and development of the right brain.
5. Music can help you fall asleep, improve immunity, increase nerve conduction rate, enhance memory and attention, and allow people to develop and release their body and mind appropriately.
6. The melody of music can calm the baby's breathing and slow down the heartbeat, so that the baby will no longer cry and be upset. It can also stimulate the baby's brain thinking ability and make him (her) smarter.
The function of listening to music
Listening to music can make people feel calm and stable, relaxed and happy, active and excited. In addition, do you know what other functions it has? ?Due to the different melody, speed, pitch, etc. of the music, it can have different effects on people's sensory organs. This can relax people's body and mind and regulate their emotions; it can help people relieve nervous fatigue and fall asleep easily; it can also effectively relieve various stresses and make people healthier. Music can not only affect people's emotions, but different music has therapeutic effects on different diseases. Most doctors in the world are now convinced of this.
People call this new treatment method that uses music to treat diseases and improve health "music therapy". Here are some famous songs that people choose for different moods. When you feel depressed: You can listen to Mozart's "Symphony No. 40 in B minor", Sibelius's "Waltz of Sorrow", Bach's "Italian Concerto in A major", Strauss's "Blue" "The Colorful Danube" and Bizet's "Carmen" Suite. When you feel anxious: you can listen to Haydn's "Royal Fireworks Music", Rossini's "William Tell", and Borodin's "Tatar Dance". When you have insomnia: You can listen to Mozart's "Lullaby", Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Debussy's Piano Concerto "Dream"? If you like Chinese classical music, you can also choose soothing and low-pitched music. It is a piece of music with the characteristics of echo, softness, gracefulness and elegance, such as "Moonlight Night on the Spring River", "Moonlight Night", "South Crossing the River", "Singing in Sickness", "Lullaby", "Yuguang Song", etc.
Invigorate the spirit and cheer up the mood: Chinese classical music also has a lot of music with bright rhythm, smooth melody and beautiful timbre, such as "Flowing Water", "Happy Encounter", "Horse Racing", "Bright Journey", " "Joyful", "Birds Paying Attention to the Phoenix", "Mynas Taking a Bath", etc. In addition, you can also choose some music that reflects the vitality of the world and the world, such as "A Hundred Birds", "Birds in the Empty Mountain", "Birds in the Shade" ,etc. It should be noted that different music therapies are suitable for different times. Generally speaking, calming music should be listened to at night before going to bed to help sleep and rest; exciting music should be listened to in the morning or in the morning, which can make people energetic and high-spirited; music that relieves depression is more restricted. Small and can be listened to at any time. But the nature of music is often not single, but multi-compatible. People can choose according to their own situation.
In addition, active music therapy can also be adopted, such as participating in karaoke OK, concerts, etc. to entertain yourself, and the effect is also very good.
Listening to music has a significant regulating effect on people's body and mind
Bright music makes people comfortable, happy and peaceful; vigorous and rhythmic music can invigorate people's spirits and improve their mood. Comfortable.
The growth and reproduction of normal cells in the human body, as well as the activities of internal organs and brain, all have specific vibration rhythms. Music that makes people feel comfortable is actually in tune and coordinated with people's physiological vibration rhythm. Therefore, music can activate the micro-vibrations of normal cells that have been suppressed in cancer patients, putting immune cells in optimal condition to defeat cancer cells and exert an anti-cancer effect. At present, countries such as Europe and the United States have begun to use music therapy to treat various diseases, and have achieved gratifying results in the treatment of depression, mania, and malignant tumors.
In foreign countries, it is quite common for doctors to prescribe music to patients, and there are many such vivid examples. There was a person suffering from neurotic gastric disease. After diagnosis and treatment, the doctor gave him the following prescription: German Bach music records, listen to it 3 times a day, and take it after meals. ?The patient followed the doctor’s advice and implemented music therapy, and the stomach problem was cured. Another young woman recovered from her severe neurosis after using music therapy for more than 10 days.
An old man with hemiplegia and speech impairment caused by cerebral thrombosis, after a period of music therapy, not only can he walk, but he can also jog.
2 Music therapy has achieved very satisfactory results in treating cancer.
Mrs. Kay Gentile, director of the music therapy team at Rosehart Hospital, one of the cancer treatment centers in the United States, felt deeply.
She herself is a cancer patient. She suffered from breast cancer in 1975. Her condition quickly worsened and she was sent to the hospital. In the hospital, she witnessed cancer patients dying one by one, and she felt very depressed. While she was preparing for her funeral, her father, who could play the piano, suddenly thought that "using music to relieve her mental pain" would also be a comfort to his daughter, so he often played some of her favorite music for her. . What is very surprising is that music is like a magician, slowly driving away the disease and miraculously surviving her illness. After recovering from the illness, Mrs. Kay Gentile participated in the music therapy work organized by the American Cancer Society with great enthusiasm. Today, she has become a world-renowned music therapy expert. ?
Music is a regular sound wave vibration that can coordinate the rhythm of various organs of the human body and stimulate the potential of the body. Medical physiological research tells us that the human body is vibrating everywhere. The brain vibrates like electric waves, the gastrointestinal tract has peristalsis, the heart has pulsation, tension and relaxation, contraction and stretching. These movements are both vibratory and certain. The rhythm of music is regular and rhythmic just like the human biological clock. When the rhythm and melody of the music match the rhythm you feel in your body, you will feel pleasure and pleasure.
3. The main function of music therapy is also its psychological medical effect.
Music acts on the brain, increasing the excitability of nerve cells, changing emotional states, arousing positive and healthy emotions, and promoting the body to secrete some hormones and enzymes that are beneficial to health through the regulation of nerves and neurohumoral fluids. , acetylcholine and other substances can regulate blood flow, increase gastrointestinal motility and secretion of digestive juices, etc., thereby promoting the compensatory function of the entire body, enhancing disease resistance, and achieving the purpose of reducing disease and restoring health.
Chinese psychologists have used music to test people’s psychosomatic reactions. In the test with the quiet and soft music "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", it was found that the subjects felt a relaxing effect on their physical reactions. The physiological recorder was used to measure the subjects' physical reactions, such as "gastrointestinal activity" and "skin". Electrical response?, Myoelectric response?, etc. all have varying degrees of change. When using unrestrained and joyful music such as "Happy Jingpo Village", the subjects have the opposite effect. The arousal level increases and the whole person feels excited. The person's emotions seem to be infected and they can't help but enter with the music. state of excitement.
The therapeutic prescription of listening to music
Busy modern people need to relax, and listening to music has become one of their first choices. Music is for enjoyment, so the focus of music therapy is to listen to music according to your own interests. Never force yourself to listen to tunes you don’t like, so as not to cause counter-effects and cause stress.
Generally speaking, there are many kinds of music that can be used for treatment. Here are some music prescriptions for common diseases:
1. Fatigue: "Holiday Beach", "Icing on the Cake", "Strong Steps", "Spring" from Vivaldi's suite "The Four Seasons", Debussy's "The Sea", Haydn's suite "Water Music", "Moon of the Fifteenth", Peking Opera "August and Fifteenth Light", etc.
2. Insomnia? "Autumn Moon over a Flat Lake", "Candle Shadow Shakes Red", Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Mozart's "Lullaby", Debussy's "Piano Prelude" ", "Moon Reflected on Two Springs", "Meeting of the Milky Way", "Night at the Military Port", "Spring Thoughts", "Baby", Mozart's "Lullaby", Debussy's "Dream".
3. Mania? "Three Plum Blossom Lanes", "Goose Falling on the Flat Sand", "Tatar Dance", "Orchid", "Song on the Fortress", "Birds in the Sky", " Fairy Shepherd".
4. Feeling uneasy? "Moonlight Night on the Spring River", Beethoven's "Symphony No. 8", Bach's "Fantasia and Fu", "Song on the Fortress", "Goose Falling on the Flat Sand", " "The Fairy Shepherd", "Peach Blossom", Beethoven's sonatas, Chopin and Strauss's waltzes.
5. Mental melancholy? "Three Six", "Backgammon", Sibelius's "Ode to Finland", Mozart's "Symphony No. 40 in B minor", Gershwin's "Blue" "Rhapsody" suite, Debussy's orchestral suites "The Sea", "The Oriole Song", "A Bird's Journey", modern Peking Opera "Butterflies in Love with Flowers", "Blissful", "Jiangnan", "Spring Breeze", "Spring Comes" "", "Ah, Mochou", Silubes's "Walse Pathétique", Mozart's "Symphony No. 14 in D minor".
6. Neurasthenia? "Joyful", "Yao Dance", Haydn's "Trio in G Major".
7. Poor appetite? "Dance", "Flowers and Full Moon", "Divertimento", Mussorgsky's piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition". Mussulsky's piano piece "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Bach's musical works.
8. Relieve stress: Elgar's "The Majesty" and Brahms's "Hungarian Dances".
9. Invigorate the spirit: Beethoven's symphony "Symphony of Destiny", Boclini's cello "A Major Survey Sonata No. 6", "Entertainment", "Backgammon", "Carnival", "Dance of the Golden Snake".
10. Relieve sadness: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony “Destiny”.
11. Songs that have a healing effect on the elderly: You can choose "Liuyang River", "Jasmine", "Osmanthus blooms everywhere in August", "Nanniwan", "The sky in the liberated area is bright" "Heaven", "Two Springs Reflect the Moon", etc.
12. To defecate: Mozart's "Minuet", Chopin's "Mazurka".
13. Lower blood pressure: "Autumn Moon over a Flat Lake", "Rain Beats the Plantains", "Moonlit Night on the Spring River", "Travel to Suzhou", "Good Jiangnan", Violin Concerts to Qin Dynasty.
When you feel unwell, you might as well try the music prescription mentioned above. There are absolutely no side effects.