Music is one of the oldest and most effective modes of therapy in the world. It has been used to soothe children to sleep and for some time, people believed that classical music can actually increase an unborn child’s IQ. Since our focus is on increasing adult brain power, let’s focus on how music can help achieve this goal for us:
1. Music has been used extensively as a supporting treatment for anxiety-related disorders. If you are feeling anxious or agitated most of the time because of stress at work or at home, listening to music can help manage what you’re feeling right now.
Music may not fix an erratic boss, but it can help you stay sane even if you have to deal with bad office problems every day.
The trick is to always give yourself the opportunity to recover from stress. Sources of stress are a part of life; we can only disconnect ourselves from these sources of stress from time to time to take care of ourselves mentally and physically.
2. Established studies have shown that music has the capacity to lower high blood pressure and it appears that listening to music also has a beneficial effect on patients suffering from dementia.
Some studies have also shown that music can even help premature infants gain more weight in a shorter period of time compared to preemies who were not given music therapy. You can just imagine how powerful the effect of music can be on the human body – it can even encourage tissue growth and weight gain!
3. It has been found that listening to music and playing musical instruments can actual increase important parts of the brain, like corpus callosum, which is actually responsible for linking the two hemispheres of the human brain.
Playing musical instruments has also been shown to increase the size of the motor cortex of the brain (precisely because playing musical instruments requires not only knowledge of music theory but also dexterity and manual skill during the manipulation of musical instruments).
4. Playing music helps improve spatial skills continuously, so don’t be apprehensive about ‘not being able to play decently’ because your brain will make sure that you will play well when you learn a new instrument.
Choose a musical instrument that you would love to play at home and try to learn it on your own. You can hire a teacher, too, if that’s what you want. The important thing here is that you are able to learn something new, play a musical instrument and listen to new music all at the same time.
1. Music has been used extensively as a supporting treatment for anxiety-related disorders. If you are feeling anxious or agitated most of the time because of stress at work or at home, listening to music can help manage what you’re feeling right now.
Music may not fix an erratic boss, but it can help you stay sane even if you have to deal with bad office problems every day.
The trick is to always give yourself the opportunity to recover from stress. Sources of stress are a part of life; we can only disconnect ourselves from these sources of stress from time to time to take care of ourselves mentally and physically.
2. Established studies have shown that music has the capacity to lower high blood pressure and it appears that listening to music also has a beneficial effect on patients suffering from dementia.
Some studies have also shown that music can even help premature infants gain more weight in a shorter period of time compared to preemies who were not given music therapy. You can just imagine how powerful the effect of music can be on the human body – it can even encourage tissue growth and weight gain!
3. It has been found that listening to music and playing musical instruments can actual increase important parts of the brain, like corpus callosum, which is actually responsible for linking the two hemispheres of the human brain.
Playing musical instruments has also been shown to increase the size of the motor cortex of the brain (precisely because playing musical instruments requires not only knowledge of music theory but also dexterity and manual skill during the manipulation of musical instruments).
4. Playing music helps improve spatial skills continuously, so don’t be apprehensive about ‘not being able to play decently’ because your brain will make sure that you will play well when you learn a new instrument.
Choose a musical instrument that you would love to play at home and try to learn it on your own. You can hire a teacher, too, if that’s what you want. The important thing here is that you are able to learn something new, play a musical instrument and listen to new music all at the same time.