by Trishna Patnaik
The human brain is a mysterious and an incredible part of the body. Music is one of the stimulants used to observe the effects and responses on the brain. The relationship of music and brain has shown tremendously astonishing results, giving us the knowledge that music can indeed affect a person’s thought, ideas, attitude and other brain functions!
Let us look at the benefits of Music on the brain:
1. Surround Area Noise Can Improve Creativity
When it comes to getting the creative juices flowing, studies suggest listening to moderate and slow songs. When listening to moderate popular songs, it allows only the right amount of pressure for the creativity to be thoroughly sparked, while also triggering the creativity to seamlessly flow from the course of the sounds!
2. Music Training Can Significantly Improve Our Motor and Reasoning Skills
While it had shown that playing music can boost a person’s emotional and mental health, it can also very much improve our motor and reasoning skills. It is often observed that children who learn music have significantly better motor skills. One can introduce music into their lives in order to help them develop the same abilities faster!
3. Increases the Rate and the Degree of Healing
Listening to moderate music can increase the rate of healing on physical injuries, as suggested by injury lawyers in NY. This claim is forfeited on patients who have undergone surgery. Patients who were listening to popular and their favourite music before, during and after the surgery do show significantly faster healing progress, as compared to patients who did not listen to music. Tissues are seen to heal faster when exposed to their favourite music!
4. Slows down Brain Aging
Playing music shows significant effects on the brain including the very delay of the aging process. Those who have learned music at a young age, even if they have stopped singing, can have delaying effects on brain aging. Even more so on people who still learn their favourite music regularly. Further it is indicated that the auditory, visual and sensory abilities of a person are well-improved and the deterioration is rapidly slowed down.
5. Elevates Mental Health
Music has been widely used in many therapies involved in mental and psychological health. It has been proven to affect and change an individual’s thoughts, perception and attitude when used correctly. Aside from this, people who listen to their favourite music regularly have lower anxiety levels and are able to control their emotional responses way better.
Musicians have increased mental health inclusive of the ability to retain information and their memory! Music has the inherent ability to improve a person’s brain functions and holistic mental health. Even without learning the science behind it, we all know that popular music can have a positive and uplifting result within us.
Someone who knows how to play music will tell you how therapeutic and relaxing it can be to be able to play your own tunes and make your own music. So Music is indeed a powerful tool for our mental and physical health, and Science is always backing it up starting with our brain!
Trishna Patnaik, a BSc (in Life Sciences) and MBA (in Marketing) by qualification but an artist by choice. A self-taught artist based in Mumbai, Trishna has been practising art for over 14 years. After she had a professional stint in various reputed corporates, she realised that she wanted to do something more meaningful. She found her true calling in her passion that is painting. Trishna is now a full-time professional painter pursuing her passion to create and explore to the fullest. She says, “It’s a road less travelled but a journey that I look forward to everyday.” Trishna also conducts painting workshops across Mumbai and other metropolitan cities of India. Trishna is an art therapist and healer. She works with clients on a one on one basis in Mumbai. Trishna fancies the art of creative writing and is dappling her hands in that too, to soak in the experience and have an engagement with readers, wanderers and thinkers.