The Beneficial Effects of Music on the Body

Music is part of our daily lives, being present at the most important events. You listen to music on birthdays, when you are sad or happy when you want to send a message, on the tram, in the subway, in the parks. Music accompanies you everywhere, animating every moment.

But what you didn't know until now is that music has a lot of beneficial effects on your body.

Music activates certain regions of the brain that are involved in movement, attention, learning, and memory. Music also releases dopamine into the brain, a chemical that improves mood and reduces anxiety. Dopamine also induces pleasure, joy, and motivation.

Music strengthens your immune system, can create positive emotional experiences resulting from the secretion of hormones that stimulate immunity. It helps stroke patients remember personal things.

At the same time, music relieves pain. Patients who underwent surgery and listened to music before, during, or after the procedure showed low levels of pain, anxiety, and required fewer painkillers.

And when surgeons listen to their favorite music, their surgical technique and efficiency improve.

Music helps produce a stress-related hormone called cortisol. Cortisol intensifies the use of glucose by the brain, its largest source of energy. It increases the availability of substances needed to repair damaged tissues.

Music that induces your calm and at the same time increases the altruism in people.

The music you listen to with pleasure makes you nicer to other people and if you are a musician who likes to play an instrument, your brain will shoot symmetrically when you listen to music. And the corpus callosum area in your brain will increase in size, being the area that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Relaxing music can lower blood pressure and help people suffering from migraines and chronic headaches. Reduces the intensity of the frequency and duration of headaches.

One study found that music helps children with epilepsy by reducing the number of seizures in patients.

Music therapy can prevent the development of a chronic form of tinnitus and can improve the duration and intensity of concentration. Music can effectively increase efficiency in performing repetitive tasks at work.

If you listen to relaxing classical music before bed you can reduce insomnia.

Children diagnosed with ADHD perform better in math after listening to music. And if they listen to music during a math test, their performance can be improved by 40 percent.

Music therapy during labor can reduce postpartum anxiety and pain, increase birth satisfaction, and decrease postpartum depression.

The effects of music on listeners depending on the musical genre

Each musical genre will have other effects on the body. And his answers to them differ from individual to individual. This is a brain matrix, which only matches certain frequencies. However, there are also the preferences of each person, formed throughout life, and many social factors, such as age, nationality, or environment in which he grew up. Here are the most popular music effects, depending on the listener's favorite genre:

Classical music

• ensures a peaceful sleep (especially the compositions of Chopin or Mozart)
• improves cognitive functions
• facilitates the decision-making process
• lowers blood pressure
• reduces fatigue
• relieves the symptoms of depression

Rock music

• contributes to the development of social life (studies show that due to preconceptions around subgenres, such as heavy metal, people tend to gather in very close enclaves and form lasting friendships)
• develops analytical mental skills
• increases the level of optimism
• helps manage anger management

Moreover, it has been shown that other musical genres contribute to maintaining concentration for a long period, but also to relaxation.