“One good thing about music: when it hits you, you feel no
pain.”
Bob Marley
Music offers peace with the world as well as with oneself.
It has the power to unshackle from anguish and distress. A tuneful soul gets
contained with happiness. Music offers celebration as the dopamine rush in the
brain contends serenity and gratification. Harmony in life and staying in tune
with thoughts are all metaphorical interpretations of the significance of melody
in existence. Pleasurable feelings associated with emotional music are the result
of dopamine release in parts of the emotional brain: the same anatomical areas
that underprop the pre-emptive and gratifying aspects of drug addiction. There
is evidence of synchronous connects in the cardiac (heart) as well as cerebral
(brain) functions that are influenced by sound waves of multiple wavelengths.
Music affects us in ways we are reasonably unaware of…
The human mind has an intrinsic musical ability.
Neuro-anatomical and neuro-physiological studies have elucidated a common locus
for math and musical talent in the brain. Classical music, its chords, rhythms
and patterns can be simulated with mathematical formulas which when applied
rightly can fashion geniuses. Research has also emphasized an enhanced of
attention and memory in musicians. They use specific areas of their brain
repeatedly to ‘make’ music, such that the functionality of their calculative
neurons gets augmented. Thus fewer brain cells are required to be activated in
order to perform the matching action. Lesser the stimulation, lower the
fatigue; thus more sophisticated will be the performance outcome.
Music and conation (behaviour)
A study by Jenny Spenwyn in 2009 revealed a wilder rate of
gambling while listening to fast tempo music. Music cadence impacts neuronal
activity proportionately. Children become agitated with excess sound in their
environment, more so with loud pop and heavy metal music. Deep breathing
coupled with soft and slow rhythm tunes unvaryingly decreases stress, calms
hyperactivity and delays gratifying impulses. For those who don’t listen to
music, this impact is surprisingly sub conscious; the body responds
consistently to different tones. It is way too investigated and thus evidently
expected.
Music and emotion
Music has the ability to assuage loneliness, facilitate
anger or enflame passion. While expressiveness is an objective property of
music, truly the essence can also be conveyed in its subjective interpretation.
A state dependent memory may incite reminiscences of an emotion sensed when the
melody may have been playing several years before. Poets, writers, artists have
repeatedly used music to expound their deepest emotions. These have been identically
interpreted and intuitively introjected by passionate individuals as emotions
of their own.
Magic of melody
Mercifully one needn’t be musically coherent to comprehend
or appreciate it. Its beauty lies in its freedom from constraints of worldly
ties. Unchained from barriers of religion, race, and status, all can enjoy
without ruminating over its cultural implications. Tunes don’t judge. Wanting
or unsolicited; their impact on the mind is inexorable.
Music to heal
Music therapy uses facets of music at the physical,
emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, mental as well as social levels. The process
of listening, imbibing, creating, discussing, even thinking about music impacts
the processes in the mind. It facilitates emotion release (crying as well as
smiling) and qualifies as a method of catharsis (forfeiting negative and
unwanted emotion). "Neurological music therapy" (NMT), is
"based on a neuroscience model of music perception and production, and its
influence on brain and behavior. A brain that engages in music is changed
by engaging in music. Sometimes a mere tapping of the foot or fingers,
head movement, etc. can help develop skills that influence the timing of muscle
activation and improve behavior. Music can heal if you choose to give it and yourself
a try…
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