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[saurabhjain]

THE MUSIC-MOOD CONNECTION

Music affects the body and the brain in three ways simultaneously...


Music's rhythms affect your heartbeat. The heart tends to speed up and slow down to match the pace of the music that's playing. Rhythms also alter our brain waves and breathing patterns. Other types of music induce us to move our bodies. In addition to hearing music, we feel the vibrations of music and other sounds on our skin and in our bones. It is the impact of these vibrating sounds on the body that subtly alters our mood and many of our body functions--particularly blood pressure, pulse and body temperature.

Melodies stay in your head like a second language. Music with strong, hummable melodies takes on a greater meaning--and affects your mood just by recalling them.
Researchers have found that whatever an individual's music preferences, music by Mozart--more than any other composer--invariably calms the listener's mind and body rhythms, improves spatial perception and promotes better communication of emotions, concepts and thoughts.

Background:The highly organized structure and many rhythms, melodies and high frequencies of Mozart?s music stimulate and charge the creative and motivational regions of the brain. However, you don't have to listen only to Mozart--or even classical music. Everything from Gregorian chant to New Age, jazz, big band, Latin, dance and rock compositions can produce different benefits.


Harmony affects your emotions helping you to release painful or angry feelings or boost happy feelings.


Sing Whenever/Wherever You Can


Singing in the shower may be healing to your brain. Song has long been known to have healing qualities.

You can often tell that a person is in a good mood if they are humming or singing. Song is a true joy of
life, no matter how you sing. We have seen how the temperaments of our's change when we sing together.

We could be having a terrible day, but when we  start singing, often we forget our  cares and feel better.


Preschool and kindergarten teachers have known for a long time that children learn best through songs. They remember the material easier and it is easier to keep them engaged in the activity. So why do we stop singing in the second or third grade? Perhaps we should continue the singing into later grades.

Sing whenever and wherever you can. You may have to sing softly if your voice is like mine (). It will have a healing effect on your temporal lobes, and probably your limbic system as well.

What u thinking ,share your views about this

Keep singing

[swetha]

hey Saurabh,
its great to know the effects of music on our human body & its impact on us psychologically.... i appreciate ur effort to spread the message....
take care
Swetha

[nishant]

great work saurabh.. i never knew such things..  keep posting such interisting things and good luck.

[humaira]

asalam o alikum friends
its really true that music effect on us, it effect on our nervous system, and also emotionally.  well i really like ur thoughts in it, i am totally agreed with u . i hope that u will share a lot of new thoughts with the members . take care
ALLAH HAFIZ

[munchkin]

Hello Frnds
Singing in the shower may be healing to your brain. Song has long been known to have healing qualities. You can often tell that a person is in a good mood if they are humming or singing. Song is a true joy of life, no matter how you sing. We have seen how the temperaments of our's change when we sing together. We could be having a terrible day, but when we  start singing, often we forget our  cares and feel better.

I alwz sing to relieves my stress. Most of the ppl around the world cannot live without music. Its part of life. Even most of the professional ppl like doctors and lawyers calm their stresses thru music. In addition, students listen to soothing music to make themselves less stressful during the exams.

In addition, when women are pregnant, doctors tell them to listen to "music", as it develops the brain of the and has many other positive effect on the baby.

~munchkin~  

[gauravbhargava]

Hello friends yes i am agreed with you that music has a great effect on mind .. i have submitted many articles about this .. so i would like to give a littel here also .. if you people like this i will surely tell you more about this ...  

Music effects the human body in subtle, but powerful ways.

A well established fact is the human body and mind can be controlled and altered with music. Many scientific and medical studies have proved conclusively the tremendous effects of music upon the human physiology and anatomy. Music is used to lower blood pressure, treat mental illness, depression, mental retardation, insomnia and many others.

Musicologist Julius Portnoy found that not only can music, "change metabolism, affect muscular energy, raise or lower blood pressure, and influence digestion," but "It may be able to do all these things more successfully ... than any other stimulants that produce those changes in our bodies." (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 138).

Clinical researchers at the U.C.L.A. School of Nursing in Los Angeles, and at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, found that premature babies gained weight faster and were able to use oxygen more efficiently when they listened to soothing music.

At Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital, classical music was provided in the critical-care units. "Half an hour of music produced the same effect as ten milligrams of Valium," says Dr. Raymond Bahr, head of the coronary-care unit.

The great pianist and composer of the 1800's, Frederic Chopin, at the age of ten, was often summoned to play for the Grand Duke Constantine, governor of Poland. The Duke had recurring seizures of madness which could seemingly be controlled only by Chopin's music. When the little boy played, the seizures abated and the governor could resume his normal activities, only to send for Chopin again when the musical medicine wore off.

How does music help? Some studies show it can lower blood pressure, basal-metabolism and respiration rates, thus lessening physiological responses to stress. Other studies suggest music may help increase production of endorphins (natural pain relievers) and S-IgA (Salivary immunoglobulin A). S-IgA speeds healing, reduces the danger of infections, and controls the heart rate. Studies indicate both hemispheres of the brain are involved in processing music. Dr. Sacks explains, "The neurological basis of musical responses is robust and may even survive damage to both hemispheres" ("Music's Surprising Power to Heal," 8/92 Reader's Digest).


~ Gaurav Bhargava ~

[aafreenshakes]

i apperitiate the topic ,its too good,it really reliefs us from stress but also makes the mood pleasant.
like wise there are advantages and disadvantages of it
load music makes ur heart beat faster while pleasant music makes us happy.
so at last

              each and every thing in this world has advantages and disadvantages.

[nikki]

topic is nice.

[crazykat]

thats why i listen songs so much.v all shld love music

[preety01]

hi saurab,crazykat, nikki, aafreenshakes,Arshed, murtuza, gauravbhargava

  Music!! aaha i love music....all type of songs... punjabi, hindi, english, sad..bla bla....lolzz.
i can't live without mucic.....lolzz....can't do work without it..

[radhikasharma19]

i always new the effect of music.......and its good to know that others r also knowing it........by reading ur article.......good .....g8 job

[reet123]

hey nice to know all this n its really good n i love music thanks saurabh for giving us such a great information.

[Silence]

music is a live life of world
can we think without music how the world is
i saw mostly things start with music and ends with music

[saurabhjain]

thx for your responses

Guy looking for more effects , share your experiences

[Silence]

happy or sad
music is always along with us

music is a wonderful drug of life, part of life

[Aditi]

hey...i didnt knew that music has soooo much effect on us...i  listen to sad songs when nt in a good mood and when in wonderfull mood io listen to romantic or rock music but i didnt realised it till i read this...