First of all, music is a form of expression of feelings and thoughts, which can express certain emotions vividly and vividly; music education is beneficial to all aspects of children's development, especially ideological and moral education, to cultivate children's noble sentiments. will play a big role.
As a form of music education that is different from other forms of education, children’s music education can improve children’s overall psychological development level and enable children to have stable and positive emotions, strong will and confidence, good character and harmony. It has a unique meaning for interpersonal relationships. Many studies have shown that music has mood- and emotion-altering effects.
Therefore, the special function of music education should be brought into play, music should be used to shape children's good psychological quality, music should be used to construct healthy personality, and create conditions for physical and mental harmony and healthy development. Using music education to cultivate children's good emotions is the window for human mental health. Children's emotions are relatively unstable.
The emotional experience is strong and the polarity is more prominent. Their emotions are impulsive and susceptible due to an imbalance between nervous system processes and inhibitory processes. From the perspective of mental health, the generation of any kind of emotion has physiological and psychological value. It is a reflection of the individual's stimulation and a defense function and self-protection mechanism of the body.
However, when a certain emotion lasts for too long and is too strong, it will affect the person's nervous system and lead to behavioral disorders. Therefore, maintaining good emotions and controlling and regulating emotions are very important to ensure children's mental health. Music is an emotional art that has the function of regulating people's emotions and sublimating people's emotions.
It expresses human emotional information through organized sound, ups and downs of pitch, changing rhythms, exciting speed, clear lines of strength, and diverse colors of timbre. As a kind of auditory art, it can directly stimulate people's auditory nerves, produce effective bioelectricity, and cause people's hearts to sing.
As Xunzi wrote in "Music Theory": Those who are happy are happy! It shows that music has a pleasant effect on people. In children's education, we use this function to help children maintain a happy and stable mood through music appreciation, so that the brain and the entire nervous system are in a good state of activity, and the functions of various organs in the body are maintained.
Achieve the effect of coordinated psychological activities.