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The power of music help to improve our physical, mental, and emotional health. Listening to music benefits individually and collectively. 

There are many kinds of music that create a powerful way of uniting people:

• National anthems connect crowds at sporting events
• Hymns build group identity in houses of worship
• Protest songs stir a sense of shared purpose during marches
• Meditation music
• Love songs help prospective partners bond during courtship
• Lullabies enable parents and infants to develop secure attachments

How music affects the Mind: Doctors at Johns Hopkins recommend that listening to music stimulates your brain function in a positive way. Mayo Clinic points out that music played important role in people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Though music doesn’t reverse the memory loss experienced by these people, it has been found to slow cognitive decline, helping people with mild or moderate dementia remember episodes from their lives.

It can keep the aging brain healthy

It can improve the ability to memorize and better learning

It can help treat mental illness

It improves sleep quality.

Music triggers the release of several neurochemicals that play a role in brain function and mental health. Like

• Dopamine- A chemical associated with pleasure and “reward” centers
• Cortisol- A Stress hormone
• Serotonin and other hormones related to immunity
• Oxytocin- A chemical that fosters the ability to connect to others

How Music affects Mood: Many research found that music plays an important role when a person is not in a great mood or helps calm people when they feel anxious. Many studies show that music help in many ways in people’s health. It helps to reduce the release of the stress hormone ‘Cortisol’ in the body and can be beneficial to reduce stressful conditions. Listening to relaxing music after a stressful event can help your nervous system recover faster. It helps people in many ways like 

• Music regulates emotions. It has the power to change moods and help people process their feelings.
• It can help lower anxiety and Stress.
• It helps the symptoms of depression

How Music’s effects on the body: Many positive effects have been found on health and body, which overall improves life. This includes 

• It can help your heart health.

• It lowers blood pressure, depending on the music’s intensity and tempo.
• It decreases fatigue- According to research at Shanghai University in 2015, it was found that relaxing music helped reduce fatigue and maintain muscle endurance when people were engaged in a repetitive task. Fatigue in cancer patients also reduced by music therapy and thus gives big benefits.
• It boosts exercise performance-A 2020 research review confirms that working out with music improves your mood, helps your body exercise more efficiently
• It can help decrease pain
• Music helps people manage both acute and chronic pain better than medication alone.
• It can boost the Immune system. 

The takeaway

Music plays an important role and exerts a powerful influence on human beings. It can have many health benefits like lighten your mood, reduce anxiety and depression, reduce pain, and help you work out more effectively.

This is one of the effective ways to take advantage of the many benefits on your body, mind, and overall health.