How Music Can Benefit Your Body And Your Brain

If you want to improve your health and keep your mind sharp spend a little less time watching TV and more time listening to or playing music.  Whether you are stressed because you’ve recently discovered you have a gluten intolerance and need to start a gluten-free diet, need more motivation for your workouts or you want to boost your memory listening to music can help.  There are a few specific ways that listening to music can provide benefits to your brain and your body.

Listening to music can relieve stress by lowering your heart rate and relieving stress can provide a range of other benefits.  It can also improve your mood and take your mind off of those stresses for a while.  Taking a break from stress can improve your ability to heal and it reduces the amount of stress hormones that are secreted.

If you spend about 30 minutes per day breathing along to music that has a slow, soothing beat you can reduce blood pressure.  This specific exercise can also reduce stress and provide a sense of calm.

On the other end of the spectrum if you need more motivation for your regular workouts, or motivation to get you to start a workout routine music can be incredibly helpful.  Using energetic music you love or simply music with a good, strong beat can help you get more out of your workout.  It can help you workout longer or more intensely and it will make your workout more fun so you are more apt to make a habit out of it.

Listening to music fires neurons in your brain that help improve memory and helps improve other mental functioning.  Besides stimulating your body it helps to stimulate your mind too.   

Believe it or not music may even help you maintain better hearing, if you don’t turn up the volume too loud on a regular basis.  Playing music seems to slow the aging process in the auditory cortex, the portion of the brain that can lead to hearing problems.  It’s never too late to take piano or guitar lessons.

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