Music & Stress Relief
Music and Stress Relief: Let Music Be A Healer!
Relation between music and stress levels
Who is not familiar with the evocation of various moods created by stray sounds of music that accidentally waft into our ears – sometimes without our being conscious of it? You sure are familiar with the power of music since your childhood: your mother used lullabies to soothe you to sleep – she was effectively using music for stress relief.
A study conducted at the University of Buffalo, on the effect of music on the patients undergoing eye surgery, showed reduced stress levels during and after the event. These patients also exhibited lowered heart rate and blood pressure.
A study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing showed that listening to music for 45 minutes prior to bedtime helped older adults sleep better and longer. It also improved the quality of their sleep.
Why music and stress cannot coexist
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When you listen to music of your liking, it changes your state of mind: you tend to forget your surroundings and are immersed in the sea of sounds. It is like you have entered another world, free of tensions, anxieties and many other petty things of life.
Listening to music decreases the levels of adrenalin and increases those of serotonin. These conditions are associated with meditative states or when you are going through a creative period. Now, whether, these changes are caused by change in mood or they are the cause is not important to us. What is important is that music relaxes you, makes the pain less acute and hastens the recovery processes of body and mind. Enjoy your favorite music and stress levels will come down, leaving you with more space to deal with the problems.
When you are in a positive state of mind, you are not dominated by the pressures of tensions and stresses and anxieties of life, and you are able to take somewhat dispassionate view of the situation, which otherwise would not have
Relation between music and stress levels
Who is not familiar with the evocation of various moods created by stray sounds of music that accidentally waft into our ears – sometimes without our being conscious of it? You sure are familiar with the power of music since your childhood: your mother used lullabies to soothe you to sleep – she was effectively using music for stress relief.
A study conducted at the University of Buffalo, on the effect of music on the patients undergoing eye surgery, showed reduced stress levels during and after the event. These patients also exhibited lowered heart rate and blood pressure.
A study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing showed that listening to music for 45 minutes prior to bedtime helped older adults sleep better and longer. It also improved the quality of their sleep.
Why music and stress cannot coexist
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When you listen to music of your liking, it changes your state of mind: you tend to forget your surroundings and are immersed in the sea of sounds. It is like you have entered another world, free of tensions, anxieties and many other petty things of life.
Listening to music decreases the levels of adrenalin and increases those of serotonin. These conditions are associated with meditative states or when you are going through a creative period. Now, whether, these changes are caused by change in mood or they are the cause is not important to us. What is important is that music relaxes you, makes the pain less acute and hastens the recovery processes of body and mind. Enjoy your favorite music and stress levels will come down, leaving you with more space to deal with the problems.
When you are in a positive state of mind, you are not dominated by the pressures of tensions and stresses and anxieties of life, and you are able to take somewhat dispassionate view of the situation, which otherwise would not have