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Don’t stop the music!

‘I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity’.

Don’t stop the music!

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Don’t stop the music! Listen to the sound of peace and happiness and let it all seep into your being. Listening to a certain genre of music can give you peace and happiness and make you a calmer and happier person. If you are troubled, let music calm your life.

Most of us are spending more time facing several challenges in life, juggling various chores, making more money, achieving fame and struggling peer competition. Take frequent breaks, listen to music and go on. Music can help your mind, heart and soul to stay healthy. Yes! Let music enhance your moods. Music heals.

Why listen to music?

Music can clear your mind and help you to feel more grounded and peaceful. But, even though we’ve always believed that music has many psychological impacts, but never had much science to back it up… until now, that is.

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Scientists are beginning to find evidence that music has profound impact on our brains, behaviors, emotions and moods. It helps to reduce anxiety, brooding and stress and increase our attention capacity, creativity and our ability to connect with other people.

People have been discussing their insightful experiences in music for last many decades. Oscar-winning music composer AR Rahman was quoted as saying, “Music is an art for us and for our families. It is informed by spirituality”.

Music benefits our overall being. Now we are seeing changes in the brain and emotions that suggest we are physically and mentally fitter when we listen to music.

Finding out how music improves moods brings added legitimacy to the call for valuing and promoting both classical and contemporary music and for spending more time in listening to peaceful and soothing music in order to lead healthier, happier and more creative lives. There is something about music that may fight harmful impacts on our emotional health.

Those who enjoy certain music experience less negativity as well as more positive emotions in comparison to the people who don’t listen to music. Music also improve memory power.

Music encourages attention restoration and a more open and meditative mindset. It may help you to be kind and generous. It makes you “feel more alive”.

Music gives us energy, makes us happier, helps us to relieve the everyday stresses of our hectic lives, opens the door to new hopes and helps us to show more modesty. This art form renews us, allows us to feel better, to think better and to deepen our understanding of ourselves and others.

When music hits you

If you haven’t made a bond with music, you’re missing out on something that’s spectacular: the real happiness and contentment. When music hits you, you feel no pain. It gives life to the world, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm to everything around.

There is beauty, love, pleasure and an unknown healing effect in music. It can change people and hence change the world. It is somebody’s first love, somebody’s passion and somebody’s secret of inner strength. It is full of romance. It makes you feel a thought and a feeling that can drive you to your world of fantasy forgetting everything around. It’s a podium that connects people in ways that no other medium can.

Billy Joel rightly said, “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music”.

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