Music stimulates pleasure centers in the brain - experts explain this effect. Due to this, it can soothe, fight depression and even reduce blood pressure. As an adjuvant, it is recommended for patients who are undergoing complex examinations or lengthy procedures. Try to lie a couple of hours during the scan - motionless, without words, or sneeze, or scratch ...
But if your favorite radio station or CD is playing in the headphones of the player, this task does not seem so difficult to do. Last year, a group of researchers from the United States released data according to which patients who listened to music - a useful pleasure hormone during a colonoscopy, tolerated it more easily than the control group and less needed sedatives. New data in favor of music therapy is given by another team of American doctors: their patients with chronic spine pains, who listened to the player for one hour per day, the pain decreased by 12-21%. The genre of musical works in both cases did not play a role. Enjoying the sounds of any of the instruments - whether it's guitar, bagpipe or grand piano - and much less trying to play them, you also stimulate your mental abilities: after all, the rhythm, melody and pitch of the sound are "read" in various parts of the brain.
Not so long ago we started talking about music - a useful hormone of pleasure and the "Mozart effect". The works of the Austrian composer have a special impact force, including on the organs of vision. In one of the hospitals in Brazil, an experiment was conducted: 30 patients suffering from glaucoma every day for only 10 minutes included Mozart's sonatas for two pianos. As a result, their peripheral vision became more acute in comparison with the control group of patients who had to spend the same 10 minutes in silence.
Play, musician
If you try not just to listen to them, but also try to learn how to play music yourself - a useful pleasure hormone, you can get additional bonuses.
Every man to his own taste. At the sound - too. Each of us perceives music in its own way, so there are no universal recipes for music therapy. There are no bad and good melodies, experts say, Frank Sinatra alone gives life to one, and Frank Zappa to others. You should look for your "medicine" yourself. When listening to CDs, notice how your thoughts and breathing change, in order to better understand what effect this or that song has on you. Ask yourself, what do you feel: a surge of strength, comfort, joy or anger? Make up your playlist, lay out the discs - "music for relaxation," "music for awakening," "music for the return of memory." And you will always have a magic wand at hand that will help in any situation and nourish with positive energy, no matter what your mood.
Music has always been , is and remains an excellent sleeping pills. But not all music, of course. Under some sounds it is possible to fall asleep with ease and pleasure, and to other rhythmic sounds - on the contrary, to wake up and not to sleep a lot of time. All this affects not only certain musical rhythms, but also guided by the cortex of the human brain. Music is a concept so extensible and individual that some of us like to listen to musical sounds, and some just do not tolerate the music. All this depends, first of all, on the peculiarity and individuality of each person.