How Does Music Affect Your Mood And Emotions?
Can you imagine a life without music? A world where your favourite musician is a doctor, engineer or a lawyer because music doesn't exist. A life where you can't play your favourite playlist while going for a walk or a run?
If you can’t then you are definitely not alone in it. Many people including me too can’t live without music. It tends to hit all of us on a deep level. No matter whether it’s sad music or a happy one, music has incredible power in it. But, have you ever thought about why it is like that? Why does it impact your brain and mood so deeply?
In this article, I will discuss it in detail.
How does music affect you?
Sick of feeling low? Music may be able to help you. The journal of positive psychology conducted broad research in the year 2013 and from that he discovered that people who listened to music that could be further classified as happy and upbeat were able to improve their mood and overall happiness in just a few weeks.
Throughout the whole study, participants were encouraged to try to improve their mood, but they were only able to achieve it when they listened to a piece of happier music. Feeling good about yourself is awesome, but these are larger implications at play.
Did you know that better overall mood and demeanour are linked to the following:
1. Higher income
2. Better physical health
These all things are a pretty exciting news and definitely an incentive to start scrolling to that upbeat song on your playlist.
What are the benefits of Music?
Music has several benefits. Do you wanna see them. Let's begin:
1. Music can improve cognitive Performance
Many studies suggested that background music or music that is played while the listener is primarily focused on another activity, then it can improve performance on cognitive tasks in older adults.
It is scientifically proven that playing more upbeat music lead to improvements in processing speed, while both upbeat and downbeat music led to benefits in memory. So, the next time while working on a task, do consider turning on little music in the background if you are looking for a boost in your mental performance.
2. Music can reduce your stress level
Just consider the trend centred on meditative music created to soothe the mind. Moreover, this is one trend supported by research. Listening to music can be a super effective way to cope up with the stress.
Those people who listen to music, they tend to recover more quickly from stress than those who don't listen to it.
3. Music may help you to sleep better
Insomnia is a serious and major problem that affects a large number of people. While there are many approaches to treat this problem but the safest and the most effective one is to listen to music while sleeping.
It is an effective remedy to treat insomnia. Scientists have found that people who listen to music, their sleep quality is much better than those who don't. So, let's grab a phone and earphones and let's start listening to the music to get a good quality of sleep.
4. It improves chronic health conditions
Music can actually help you in treating chronic conditions like dementia, stroke and Parkinson's disease.
5. Music can help to manage pain
Studies have shown that music can be super helpful in managing pain. Scientists said that those who listened to music for just one hour a day experiences a simplified reduction in pain as compared to those who don't.
By studying all these studies and the things that researchers told you to get to know how music is the most powerful and magical tool in treating chronic pain.
So, overall music helps you to remain healthy.
How Music boosts the mood and changes our perspective?
In experiments, where people looked at a happy face or a sad face, the music they listened to affect the way they perceive it. It actually influenced what they saw. If you are listening to happy music, then a more natural face was more likely to be viewed as a happy face and vice versa.
If you listen to the music then you may know that your body can react in several various ways:
1. Tapping your feet
2. Nodding your head
The beat of the song that you are listening to can influence your heart rate and you know what, when people sing together then their breathing often becomes synchronised and it produces more positive emotions.
These all things happen because musical patterns affect your different areas which are involved in memory and emotions.
So, by this, you can make out that music actually changes the way you perceive the whole world.
Why music is played in restaurants?
Music has a large role to play in setting the tone of a restaurant. Many studies show that it actually impacts the way you eat. Restaurants playing music aligned with their brand values enjoyed quarter sales performance.
Do you know that the pace of music influences the desires? Yes, it does. Restaurants with slow tempo music had a higher revenue due to diners staying for longer and ordering more drinks.
The famous British chef Heston Blumenthal has taken the use of auditory factors further with his sound of the sea dish, which was served with an MP3 player which actually enhanced the flavour of the dish and it tastes much better. So, that's why restaurants use music.
Are you feeling low?
If you are feeling low, then just press play on some upbeat music. The music will pick you up and put a smile on your face. Even better is that remember back to a specific time in your life, that time you were really happy. Then, try to memorize that which music you listened to back then and play that very specific music.
Do you know what would happen? You will be flooded with the emotions you experienced at that time which affects the way you experience the world around you in the present moment. So, music is the most powerful and magical tool.
CONCLUSION
Music can improve and entertain, but it also has a powerful psychological effect that can actually improve your health and well being. Instead of thinking of music as pure entertainment do consider some of the major mental benefits of including music in your everyday life.
If you listen to music on a daily basis, then you might find that you feel more motivated, happy and side by side more relaxed.
So, music is the most incredibly amazing tool of all times!
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