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Over 20 Health Benefits of Singing & Music – physical, emotional, and social health
  • Singing & Music boosts the immune system.
  • Singing can be an excellent form of exercise.
  • Singing brings in a good posture & style – Back, Chest, Stomach, Shoulders, etc.
  • Singing can help strengthen throat and palate muscles, which helps stop snoring and sleep apnea.
  • Singing releases stored muscle tension and decreases the levels of a stress hormone called cortisol.
  • Singing is known to release endorphins, the feel-good brain chemical that makes you feel uplifted and happy.
  • Music reduces stress. Research has found that listening to music can relieve stress by triggering biochemical stress reducers.
  • Singing improves blood circulation & provides oxygenated blood, beside aiding mental alertness, concentration, and memory.
  • Music relieves symptoms of depression. When you’re feeling down in the dumps, music can help pick you up – much like exercise.
  • Music eases pain. Music can meaningfully reduce the perceived intensity of pain, especially in geriatric care, intensive care or palliative medicine.
  • Singing can improve your social life – family, friends, groups, society… A bond and intimacy is naturally formed & strengthened – every time you sing.
  • Music increases workout endurance. Listening to those top workout tracks can boost physical performance and increase endurance during a tough exercise session.
  • Singing takes you from being an amateur to being a professional, during which time you learn skills, quality, appreciation, evanluation and understand music masters.
  • Singing & performing well with result in compliments which is key to overcoming your fears, stage-fright and boosting your self-confidence or personality development.
  • Music manages pain. By reducing stress levels and providing a strong competing stimulus to the pain signals that enter the brain, music therapy can assist in pain management.
  • Singing helps the brain learn – meanings, cultures, vocabulary, communication skills, language nuances… improving further to Composing, Lyrics-writing, Production and a career in it.
  • Music helps people eat less. Playing soft music in the background (and dimming the lights) during a meal can help people slow down while eating and ultimately consume less food in one sitting.
  • Musical instrument playing changes the shape and power of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills. It can even increase IQ by seven points in both children and adults, according to researchers.
  • Music listening activated brain regions called the limbic and paralimbic areas, which are connected to euphoric reward responses, like those we experience from sex, good food and addictive drugs. Magnetic resonance imaging proves it.
  • Music is heart healthy. Research has shown that blood flows more easily when music is played. It can also reduce heart rate, lower blood pressure, decrease cortisol (stress hormone) levels and increase serotonin and endorphin levels in the blood.
  • Music stimulates memories. There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease or dementia but music therapy has been shown to relieve some of its symptoms. Music therapy can relax an agitated patient, improve the mood and open communication in patients.
  • Music elevates mood. Music can boost the brain’s production of the hormone dopamine. This increased dopamine production helps relieve feelings of anxiety and depression. Music is processed directly by the amygdala, which is the part of the brain involved in mood and emotions.