influences of music in mental health

1. Influences of Music in Mental and
Physical Health

2. Introduction
➢Music is one of the first art forms that humans created when
life evolved on earth.
➢Music is believed to have a very positive impact on the
emotional health of not just human beings, but also on nature
and animals.
➢It has a very positive impact on the mood and mindset of a
person. It brings comfort and peace to the aching heart.
➢It suppresses negative emotions and grief and is even
proven to lower down a fit of rage.

3. 5 Ways Music Helps Our Mental and
Physical Health
 1. Music Improves our Mood
 2. Music Makes Exercise More Fun
 3. Music Lowers Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, and
Stress Hormone Levels
 4. Music Helps With Aging
 5. Music Reduces Pain

4. 1. Music Improves our Mood
 Music makes us feel better.
Our favorite melodies release
dopamine, known as the feel-good
hormone, which activates our brain’s
pleasure and reward system. Music
can have a positive, immediate
impact on our mental state; fast
tempos can psychologically and
physiologically arouse us, helping
energize us for the day.

5.  Music alleviates feelings of restlessness,
nervousness, and anxiety, and it reduces worrying
In fact, these effects are even
stronger for people dealing with
something particularly troubling.
People with chronic illness or severe
stress are happier, less depressed,
and less lonely after receiving music-
based therapy

6. 2. Music Makes Exercise More Fun
 On the other end of using music to
control our mood, many people
listen to fast, loud music when they
work out. Studies have even found
that people enjoy exercise much
more while listening to music. That’s
important because enjoying an
exercise routine plays a big role in
how much we benefit from it

7. 3. Music Lowers Heart Rate, Blood Pressure,
and Stress Hormone Levels

8. Notable effects
 Sound processing begins in the brainstem, which also controls the rate of
your heartbeat and respiration. This connection could explain why relaxing
music may lower heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure — and also
seems to ease pain, stress, and anxiety.

9. Music Lowers Stress Hormone Levels

10. The research was funded by the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
 IN THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE REVIEW OF 400 RESEARCH PAPERS
about the neurochemistry of music, psychology professor Daniel Levitin
and postdoctoral researcher Mona Lisa Chanda note that playing and
listening to music have clear benefits for mental and physical health.
 Listening to music increases production of the social bonding hormone
oxytocin and the immune system-boosting antibody immunoglobulin A, and
relaxing music can reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

11. 4. Music Helps With Aging
 Playing a musical instrument has become a popular practice for
people experiencing cognitive symptoms or impairment during
aging.
Studies have found that music
performance improves memory and
attention in such cases. Likewise,
regularly listening to music seems to
improve quality of life and mood, and
reduce loneliness and depressive
symptoms in healthy older adults.

12. The Benefits of Music On The Aging
Brain
 Music provides benefits for listeners
of all ages. One of the primary
reasons is that the brain likes
stimulation, and music provides this
better than just about anything
else. Johns Hopkins University notes
that experts are still trying to
understand all the details of the
brain-music connection, but that
much is already known.

13. How Music Stimulates the Brain
 Music provides benefits for
listeners of all ages. One of the
primary reasons is that the brain
likes stimulation, and music
provides this better than just
about anything else. Johns
Hopkins University notes that
experts are still trying to
understand all the details of the
brain-music connection, but that
much is already known.

14. Music and the Mind
 The Mayo Clinic reports that studies have
shown music can help those experiencing
cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer’s
disease. Even for those experiencing
Alzheimer’s disease, musical memories
typically remain relatively undamaged.

15. 5. Music Reduces Pain
 Music has also grown in popularity as a means of dealing with
severe and chronic pain. For patients recovering from surgery, or
receiving cancer treatment, a range of options are available. In
“music medicine,” specific pre-recorded music is selected for
targeted symptoms, while in “music therapy” a professional
therapist tailors a music experience for the patient. These
practices have been able to reduce pain levels and even opioid
drug use.9 Simply picking out our own favorite music can reduce
pain as well, for chronic conditions like back injuries.10

16. Music Therapy: More Than Just
Entertainment
 According to the American Music Therapy
Association, music therapy is “an established health
profession in which music is used within a
therapeutic relationship to address physical,
emotional, cognitive and social needs of individuals.”

17. Listening to music decreases pain,
study shows
 Frontiers in Pain Research led a recent study into
whether music is capable of reducing physical pain.
Researchers found that sad and bittersweet songs like
“Someone Like You” by Adele were the most effective
pain relievers. The study observed 63 participants with
the mean age of 21.3.
The results: Participants felt significantly less pain listening
to self-selected songs than when listening to relaxing
tracks, scrambled tracks and silence.

18. Singing — and striding — stroke
survivors
 Music therapy can help stroke survivors recover their ability to speak and move. The reason
lies in music's widespread effects on the brain, which cultivate a process known as
entrainment.
 Entrainment refers to the simultaneous activation of neurons from different parts of the
brain. "For example, when you hear a steady rhythm, it activates your auditory system but
also automatically engages your motor system," explains music therapist Brian Harris of
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
 After certain types of strokes, people can't move the muscles in their tongue or lips
(dysarthria) and therefore aren't able to speak clearly. But asking them to "sing" a familiar
song using simple syllables (such as "la" or "fa") instead of words helps entrain their motor
or muscle-activating nerves, which helps them recover their speech.
 The technique works for all types of movement. "When people entrain, it makes the
neurological process more efficient because everything fires at the same time," says Harris.
When stroke survivors practice walking to music, it helps steady their gait and improves the
speed, symmetry, and length of each stride.

19. There are three things to know about
music therapy
 First: Music therapy is not entertainment. While music therapy may be
enjoyable, the music is chosen and applied for specific reasons after
assessment of the patient’s needs, preferences and circumstances.
 Second: While listening to music is usually pleasant, application of the
wrong music can be harmful with someone who does not know how to
help recipients process.
 Third: Everyone can benefit from music therapy in some way. You do not
have to have musical training, musical ability or a musical background to
benefit. You don’t really even have to enjoy music, but it does help!

20. Conclusion