Listening to your favourite music

Listening to your favourite music

Listening to your favourite music can be exciting and comforting. Research also suggests that music can make a person healthier and reduce stress. Good music is a source of pleasure and contentment. Psychology has proven over time that music can influence our thoughts, behaviours, appetite and feelings. Sometimes we feel pumped up when we hear our favourite music, and this is not a surprise to many. Some feel moved to tears by a tender performance or even jump to a fast-paced rock piece of music. This is a clear indication that music can impact our moods significantly. The effects of music on humans are wide-ranging. It can be used as a therapy or even an intervention to promote emotional health. Music is used in hospitals to help patients cope with stress and improve their psychological well9-being. Music can relax your mind and drive you away from the world of thoughts. It can energize your body and help you manage pain. This paper shall discuss the power of music in impacting moods.

Music has always been beneficial to our mental health for thousands of years. Ancient philosophers from Plato sung music of praises to soothe stress. Some kings required their servants to play music to make them feel good. Military, till today, use music to build confidence and courage amongst themselves to win a war. Sporting events have their audiences and fans singing music to rouse enthusiasm. School-going children are no exception either. Toddlers use music to memorize vowels and alphabetical letters. We find music in shopping malls to entice shoppers while shopping. Most dentists use music to calm down nervous patients. All-rounded research supports that music boosts confidence and mood.

Since human beings have different experiences, we tend to develop different music tastes and preferences. However, some groups of people have common music preferences on the basis of how they respond to them. For instance, babies respond to lullabies. Mothers in maternal care prefer soothing music regardless of their musical affiliation or talents. Some types of music, however, makes the majority feel worse even when we look like we enjoy it. For example, grunge music leads to hostility across all ages. It also boosts sadness, fatigue and tension in both old and young. Research has also established that rock music, oldies and pop music helped college students and adults feel better and happier. Pop, rock and oldies also make these groups more optimistic, relaxed, calm and friendly.

Most people find familiar music so comforting and relaxing. Music has been found to be one of the most effective ways of reducing anxiety. That is why music is used in dental hospitals and other departments with pain to help patents cope with their worries about procedures. Music helps the elderly to reduce anxiety and boost mood. Any kind of relaxing and calming music, regardless of the language or musician used, can contribute to mood calming. When cognitive therapy combines with calming music, it makes a perfect and effective recipe to lower anxiety. This combination is more effective than conventional therapy options for reducing anxiety.

Music with tones and other specially designed music with binaural beats can put brain waves into theta rhymes. That is why such music is used in patients with anxiety to help boost their mood or reduce anxiety. Music without these tones is less effective in the purpose. Listening to such music without other distractions such as reading or driving promotes the best mood benefits. Music therapy is not only applied to depressed and anxious patients, but also on patients with serious medical illnesses such as multiple sclerosis and patients with burns. If it can work in such situations, then it is no question that it can help a normal person boost their moods.

Music appeals to so many people because it is a way of life. It is a critical tool in letting a person’s emotions run. Music affects our moods, both knowingly and unknowingly. For students, we use music as a motivator and to instil confidence during exams. When we are stuck at work, we use music to think and run duties smoother. Music is an encouraging element for people with demanding jobs or students with big exams. When we are almost running out of hope, we play our favourite music and boost our moods and morals. Music is used to express feelings that are hard to express through words. We can make people feel better or communicate a problematic message through music because music appeals to many.

When going through tribulations, people listen to upbeat music to improve their overall happiness. People’s moods are changed for better when they focus on the experience of the journey while listening to music. A person must make an effort to listen to the message in the music because one has to pay attention to feel attached and any other effort to make one boost his or her mood. Music goes beyond just improving our moods but also changes the way we perceive and interpret the world. Sometimes tough economic times can indeed rage anger on us and feel overwhelmed. A job loss or lack of employment and poverty can lead one into depression. However, good music can pass a person through such tribulations and feel like the world is a comfortable place, and that the challenges we face are temporary. Music helps us see things positively. If a neutral image is shown to a person who has been listening to soothing music and the same image shown to a person listening to sad songs, their views will be different. A person who has been listening to happy, soothing music will view the image will rate it comparatively happier than those who listened to sad music. There is a way sad music exaggerates the emotional content of expression and worsen a person’s mood. Good smooth and soothing music has the opposite effect on listeners. Music is having a significant impact on our psychological processes to the extent that it slows down our heart rate and breathing rate. This not only boosts mood but also reduces stress and relaxes tensed muscles.

In conclusion, this paper has collectively found out that music is a critical tool for positively impacting mood. Music is life, and it affects broad perspectives of life. Music can be said to be a natural antidepressant. It has a very strong effect in our brain, especially the part of the brain that controls mood, judgment, emotions and spatial navigation. Music is also used for patients, especially in dental hospitals and maternity rooms to make patients feel calm. However, not all music is soothing and boosts mood. The paper has established that some music can play the opposite role in humans. Students use music to help settle when going for tough exams. People at the workplace use music to calm their nerves and boost mood. Therefore, music appeals to many, and it is a way of life.