Harmonizing Minds: How Music Therapy Supports Mental Health

Key Takeaways

Music vibrating at different frequencies and interacting with our brainwaves has a calming effect on us.
It can help you relax, boost your mood, reduce stress, and relieve pain.
It can also facilitate emotional expression, influence cognitive performance, and improve post-surgery outcomes.

The start of a new year is always a good time to decide to take better care of your mental and physical health. Whether you start exercising regularly, get more sleep, or just take time off to de-stress, the best time to start is right now.

Staying inside the house, sometimes in isolation or overcrowding, can affect our minds in ways we don’t immediately realize. The disruption of daily life combined with coping could easily cause stress, anxiety, and even depression in many.

What you need to know:

The link between music and mental health
Music as therapy
How does music therapy work?
What you can do

The link between music and mental health

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Music therapy for mental health works in the following ways:

Helps you relax, focus, and sleep better.
Improves your mood and inspires positive emotions.
Reduces the effects of stress on the body.
Eases pain.
Facilitates opportunities for emotional expression.
Influences cognitive performance.
Improves post-surgery outcomes.

Music therapists use various music-making methods to help their clients achieve good mental health. Music therapy can help people recover from negative events and experiences and those suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).

Music as therapy

Music is a lesser-used but highly effective therapy for the conditions mentioned above. As Fitness Expert Luke Coutinho states in this video, listening to music can change our mood. Listening to upbeat, happy music can lift our spirits, while tuning into sad music when you’re feeling low can provide comfort and help you feel better.

How does music therapy work?

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Music is sound vibrating at various frequencies. When these frequencies interact with our brainwaves, they can have a calming effect and help release chemicals called endorphins. Here are some of the effects endorphins have on the body:

Improve mood
Decrease stress
Calm anxiety
Boost immunity
Increase rate of healing from injury
Increase energy

It is no surprise that listening to music for even a few minutes each day can positively affect mental and physical health.

What you can do

You can make a playlist of your 10 favorite songs (or more) and listen to them daily. You can do this while working out, doing housework, or just in the mood to dance.

Music therapy can work wonders in your life. Embrace and benefit from it.

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