When words fail music speaks

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

Music is the best ever medicine for all types of emotional pain and hurt . You can say it is the stress buster. Music has been an important part of every human culture, both past and present. Everyone needs music in any emotional condition either they are happy, sad, stressed or whatever you feel. Music can make you happy , stress-free at any stressed or tensed situation. Music can become your best friend and always help you to overcome from any worst feeling. Music choice vary person to person some of them listen pop music, some listen suffi song, some listen soft music etc everyone has their different choices, every situation demand different music according to their need. It can play a part in brain development, learning,mood and even your health. Music distribute throughout the brain not work on any specific area.

One of the most common affects music has, is that it can alter our mood, feeling, and stimulating the formation of certain brain chemicals. When you listen to music you actually like , your brain release a neurotransmitter called Dopamine. So basically music can makes us feel good. It can play a part in brain development, learning, mood and even your health. One interesting thing is that when someone is sad they often reach for sad music and they find that it helps them feel better. In the last few decades neuroscientist have make enormous breakthrough in understanding how our brain works by monitoring them with instruments fMRI. Through brain scans we find that musicians have different brain than non musicians. People who plays an instrument has bigger, better conneced and more sensitive brain. It also never too late to start learning ab instrument.

Another Interesting thing is how listening music can affect our exercise routine. As our body realises we are tired and want to stop excercising it send signal to the brain to stop and wants a break. Listening to music can compete for our brain attention and can help us override those signal of fatigue.

Music that is soothing and relaxing can help students to beat stress, anxiety, release pressure, overcome tension during their study period and during exam also. But only instrumental and soft music or music without lyrics . During long study sessions music can aid endurance. Help them to make it easy. According to Kaiser family Foundation poll 87%, listening to music was the most popular side activity for those who balance studying with another activity.

It can also improve blood flow in way similar to statin, lower your level of stress releasing hormone cortisol and ease pain. Listening to music before an operation can even improve post surgery outcome.

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Actually their are a lot benefits of listening music some of them are mentioned below.

• Improves sleep efficiency- reduce BP
• Enhance mood
• The brain responds to music the same way it respond to something that you eat
• Listening to music while exercising can significantly improve your work out performance. Increase stamina & physical performance.
• Enhance focus
• Playing music regularly will physically alter your brain structure
• The chills you get when you listen to music, is mostly caused by the brain releasing while anticipating the peak moment of song.
• Boosts creativity
• There are few activities in life that utilizes the entire brain, and music is one of them
• Reduce stress and eases anxiety

Music is the best way of expressing your feelings. And you can encourage a lot of people by motivational and folk songs and generate a lot of emotions.
African American spirituals, gospel, and folk music all played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement. They sang songs for multiple purposes: to motivate them through long marches, for psychological strength against harassment and brutality.

folksingers Guy and Candie carawan sing the songs “Tree of Life,” “Eyes on the Prize,” and “We Shall Overcome.” The Carawans worked at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, where activists from around the country came to be trained in nonviolent philosophy and learned the songs of the movement.

Activist and folk singer Pete Seeger also remembers how important music was to the Civil Rights Movement in his interview.

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So express you emotions by listening music and sing along with it. By listening music you are always feeling free, positive, energised and happy. So give few time to yourself and listen music daily at least 10 minutes.