Life Advice – Be Happy By Listening To Music:
I saw this article and wanted to share it because I think it is totally true:
Keep Your Brain Young with Music
It was written by Johns Hopkins University Medicine and concludes:
If you want to firm up your body, head to the gym. If you want to exercise your brain, listen to music.
The Article Explains:
“There are few things that stimulate the brain the way music does,” says one Johns Hopkins otolaryngologist. “If you want to keep your brain engaged throughout the aging process, listening to or playing music is a great tool. It provides a total brain workout.”
Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.
The Brain-Music Connection
Experts are trying to understand how our brains can hear and play music. A stereo system puts out vibrations that travel through the air and somehow get inside the ear canal. These vibrations tickle the eardrum and are transmitted into an electrical signal that travels through the auditory nerve to the brain stem, where it is reassembled into something we perceive as music.
Johns Hopkins researchers have had dozens of jazz performers and rappers improvise music while lying down inside an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine to watch and see which areas of their brains light up.
“Music is structural, mathematical and architectural. It’s based on relationships between one note and the next. You may not be aware of it, but your brain has to do a lot of computing to make sense of it,” notes one otolaryngologist.
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I agree 100%, because I listen to music A LOT – sometimes all day long – and especially when I am working online.
Why?
Because it makes me more productive and happier while I work.
I especially like the streaming music provider Spotify (www.spotify.com) which offers free online listening (with some advertisements) or no ads for about $10 per month.
It is well worth it!
Here is what the Spotify user screen looks like:
GIVING BACK
Two features that I really like include:
1. A HUGE database of music. All types of music.
2. The ability to select a listening “Mood” (just a few options shown above, Spotify offers many) which will provide the type of mood music you want, automatically.
Some of My Favorite Moods Are:
– Rock
– Electronic / Dance (try out TECHNO BUNKER)! 🙂
– Focus
(Yes, I even listen to Heavy Metal and Funk once in a while)!
If you want to keep your spirits high, your brain young, and improve your productivity at the same time, consider listening to music.
It really does work.
Life Advice – Be Happy By Listening To Music (!)
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Here is a link to the original John Hopkins article:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/keep-you….
– – – PS:
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