Music
is one of the oldest ways to improve our health and our mood.
Already
in antiquity, people eagerly used the medicinal properties of music.Also today, music is a medicine and is used in the treatment of various
diseases. Doctors noticed that therapy by music can be useful in the treatment
of numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. In fact, therapy by music
can be effective in Parkinson's patients.
Active music therapy stimulates
motor, affective and behavioural functions. This can be proposed as a method in
Parkinson's rehabilitation programs. What's more, special kind of music can
improve the precision of hand and finger movements. An additional problem for
people with Parkinson's is shaking hands, which is caused by stress. What is
important, research has shown that relaxing music has significantly reduced
body shaking
What's
more, music treatment is also helpful in treating autism. Music is extremely
valuable in multilateral stimulation and support the development of an autistic
child. Because music contains many elements such as: rhythm, harmony, melody,
phrasing or dynamics and this order and structure of the melody, where every
sound and every musical expression has its place, for this reason stimulates
interest and gains the attention of an autistic child. In addition, music is
often the only source that gives the opportunity to establish a dialogue with a
child suffering from autism. In conclusion, the music has therapeutic
properties.
However, it is worth remembering that
music also has relaxation properties. The Researchers have proved that
listening music improves our mood. Many
people in difficult times also when they are nervous prefer listening to music.
Free, calm melodies aim to relax muscles and relax the body. For example, music
like the sounds of nature e.g. the sea, forest or birds - is associated with
the relief of nerves. In the case of increased stress, classical music also
works. On the other hand, listening to a rhythmic, fast melody improves mood,
and is used to treat depression. In the treatment of depression, you choose
music that will be associated with something nice.
In addition, music helps in
concentration. According to specialists, a classical music is the best to work
or study. Thanks to the high frequency of sound, our brain stimulates to
action. The high frequency of music makes the brain better absorb information,
relax and work more efficiently. Therefore, listening to the classical music is
recommended to people who have problems with concentration and those who are
still learning.
Composing
music also has an good affect our mood. Playing on the musical instruments
causes the development of motor skills. For example, many people who have
suffered brain damage, for example after stroke, have confirmed the benefits of
learning to play instruments. Playing musical instruments also helps in
controlling impulses and social interactions. In addition, stroke patients have
also shown significant improvement in function.
As you can see, music can be an
excellent remedy for both our body and our soul.
Questions:
- Does music help you relax?
- Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
- How important is music for you?
Comments
I think that I can agree that music can be medicine. I do think so because emotions are very important thing in our lives. When we go to psychologist, he also is working with our emotions. Then, why music can’t be a medicine if it’s interfering with our emotions.
For me music is quite important because whenever I’m working in garage, working on computer or driving a car I need it. Also I love to dance on wedding so my answer is YES!
2. Taking the point from number one, yes it can. People with treatment of numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders can be helped by relaxing with music.
3. It's very important for me due to the face that I listen to music everyday. It allows me to change my mood based on the type of music I choose. Also it brings up memories from old times so it can be used as a mnemonic. E.g. Japanese music which I got to know in Tokio.
2. Not quite sure. I think auto-suggestion (eg. placebo) will play a bigger role than any "magical" abilities. Music can help to distract from the disease and relax, but personally, I do not believe that it can cure.
3. Music for me has recently become more important than ever before. Of course I listen to it everyday, but also I started making it and it is really exciting. I've never thought that I would do it.
I think that the statement that music can be medicine is real. Although it will not cure serious diseases, it has a positive effect on the patient and his psyche. In my opinion, it certainly helps in stress problems or in situations with a nervous breakdown.
Music is very important to me. You can sometimes break away from problems and find yourself in a different world. Thanks to this, you can look at your problems from a different perspective. Often the music has some message or text to help see someone's perspective on various situations, eg male-female relationships. Music, therefore, not only soothes the senses, but also can teach and expand our emotional sensitivity.
Music can be a treatment. It is a well known fact that under the effect of a classical music the plants grow more, the cows produce better milk, and people have their parkinsons and depression eased. No point of even discussing it -- it has been prover by various researches over time.
Personally I always listen to some Mozart before my exams. It actually stimulates brain. Confirmed.
As I said music can bring you some emotions happiness, sadness or even make you angry. Because of that and what I read I think that music can be some sort of medicine and when you are listening to right music it can have positive impact on your health and be some sort of medicine.
Music is really important to my and my lifestyle. I don't go anywhere without my headphones because I don't like silence ( except the time when I sleep ;) ). I think that people who say that music don't matter to them and it does nothing to their life they didn't have a chance to think about that to be honest. I don't know the music name or a performer but I consociate music from listening to it. I'm not a music geek but I love listening to new piece of art.
Does music help you relax?
Yes it does. I don't think that there is anything better for me to relax with. Cup of tea, headphones, some good music. It helps me clear my mind or focus it on certain type of mood that I am seeking. Also I use it to get ideas for stories and scenarios that I write.
Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Yes of course. At least music helps our state of mind. It is no joke when people say that positive attitude helps to get over with illness. What is more, music is like a drug for our brain that seems to have no negative impact at all. When you see a brain scan of someone listening to music it is like watching new years eve fireworks.
How important is music for you?
Very. To relax, when I am learning, playing. I also use it to get a mood that I want to have. For example, power metal is THE BEST before and during workout. On the other hand I feel extremely calm when listening to space ambient for example. Or rege when I want to feel light-headed. I can't imagine world without music.
Research in 2015 showed that patients who listened to music before, during and after the surgery had less pain and anxiety than those who did not listen to music. Listening to music in any situation is painful, but researchers say listening to music before the surgery has better results. The reviewer reviewed information gathered from more than 7,000 patients, and those who listened to the music had used less drugs to relieve their pain. When the patient was allowed to choose the music he liked, even better results were recorded.
Listening to soft and relaxing music can be an effective way of overcoming stress, and that's what science has proven to be. In a study conducted in 2013, participants were identified in one condition before being exposed to stress and then tested for psychosocial stress. Some people listened to a relaxing music, some did not hear the sound of small water waves, and the rest did not receive any hearing aids. The results showed that listening to music influenced human response to stress, especially on the automated nervous system. People who listened to relaxing music, after experiencing stress, were able to quickly recover their mental condition.
2. I'm not able to agree or disagree that music can be a medicine. Definitely a particular music helps people to feel more relaxed. But does it possess a power to cure some real disease ? In my opining it is more about placebo thing which we discussed earlier. By that I mean if a doctor says that music can reduce some set of symptoms, for sure there will be some people who will have positive outcome.
3. Just few year ago I was totally dependent on music. I had to listen to it everywhere and every time. There was no way that I could leave the house without headphones. Today, there no such need in music and if for example I forgot to take my dependent I will be fine. But still I can't work or study without some background sounds.
I agree that music can be a medicine. If you feel grief, anger, pain etc listening to music can help you to deal with that.
Music is quite important to me, but I wouldn't call myself a music lover.
My opinion is that music plays a smaller role than its sound. Perhaps you have already heard that the sounds of dolphins are used in the treatment of the nervous system, which have a positive effect on the central nervous system. Melodies that bring joy to slow down the pulse, increase the strength of heart contractions, promote vasodilation and normalization of arterial pressure and irritating music has the opposite effect. Instrumental music has a beneficial effect not only on humans but also on animals and even plants. In general, a person perceives sounds from the 14th day of his life in his mother’s tummy. Ornithotherapy - treatment with birdsong. Scientists say that listening to birds singing helps to balance all the processes that constantly occur in the body. The human body and mind come to a state of harmony. I often listen to YouTube on different music with the sound of water or the singing of birds when I work, it helps me to concentrate.
Music can stimulate our brain in various ways, mostly based on the genre and our personal perception. So yes, sure. Some kinds of music do help me relax.
2. Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Sure thing. There are numerous studies proving how helpful can music therapy be in improving health or functional outcomes.
3. How important is music for you?
I usually listen to music whenever I want to focus on something like playing / reading. It, however, also helps to stimulate the brain while wandering around on your own.
Absolutely Yes. When I've had insomnia for a long time, music helps me sleep or when I can't concentrate, I just put on my headphones and start reading or doing tasks
2.Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Now there are even special music therapy, as is already known when listening to a certain musical instrument can improve the condition of a particular organ.
3.How important is music for you?
Now I can not imagine life without music, it helps me don't be depressed.
Music is for sure a good support for our body when we feel sick, it sometimes helps us to forget about our pain for a time. Music is also a great medicine from stress, listening to my favourite compositions helps me to chill and rethink about the problem which lead to my stress.
I am music addicted person and sometimes I am getting used to old music really fast and I am switching artists genres of music really fast.
Yes, I think we can consider music as a medicine. When you're tired, exhausted, listening to music might help you to deal with it.
I am not a big fan of any band or any specific type of music, so the music is not very important to me. The music helps me to detach yourself from reality and think more clearly.
Yes, music can help me to relax but also to focus or get more energy. Different music genres influence on people a bit differently but it definitely affect emotions.
2. Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Yes I think it can be a medicine. You showed some good examples where it actually helps people to get better and I believe in it.
3. How important is music for you?
It's very important. I listen to music when I commute, during workout or when I am learning. On the other hand, after long day full of sounds, talks and argues about a project at work, often in the evenings like to listen to silence ;)
Yes, I agree that music can be a medicine. He can certainly help some people.
I like to listen to it just like that. I often listen at work or on the way to work.
Yes, I agree and in fact, many psychiatrists use music to help people with stress, anxiety or PTSD. It's no secret that melodic sound waves can stimulate different parts of our brain which in turn can not only help us relax but also help to be more productive.
I listen to music at least for an hour a day, so I think I'm quite used to it and can say that it takes an important part in my daily life routine, but sometimes I also get annoyed with it and could not listen to it for an entire day.
Yes, I agree that music can be a medicine. I noticed that music can change my mood for the better. Music can help people who had depression or who had problems with concentration.
Music is very important for me. I listen music almost all day, when need concentration, want to relax. Even now, when I writing this comment I listen music.
I think you can't cure pox by listen to music, but it definitely has a positive effect to people's psychological impact.
I don't know how to answer how is music important to me. It is very important but I think that I can imagine my life without it. But definitely I would be very sad if music disappeared.
Yes, I totally agree that music can be a medicine. And it's very cool that music is used in treatment of Parkinson's and other serious diseases.
As I mentioned above , music is really important for me. I often go to music concerts and festivals.
and just as for you, music is important to me because i danced professionally
That's why in my opinion music is a medicine and it's effective!
I am very impressed if you can say something more about your game?
As you mentioned, music definitely influences emotions!
Because for me it is something amazing
Or does it help children in their ailments, for example autism.
Music can certainly heal the people but this kind of medicine is included in unconventional medicine. I am sure that you have ever heard about waves of the appropriate frequency which can change the work of your brain eg there is this kind of drugs that when you listening special track then you are high.
Music has always been in my life and mainly I associate each song with the memory.
Music for sure can be a medicine in many ways. I think it can help people with mental health problems, people with insomnia, also playing musical instruments helps to develop an ear for music and it was proven, that people that can play musical instruments also became better at other arts, like singing, painting and etc.
I cannot live without music. Music helps me relax, studying, exercise, motivate myself, deal with my problems. It cures my bad mood and helps me motivate myself. A day without my headphones is a bad day :D
as much as possible in the world there is more and more unconventional medicine and I am for that.
I could live without it, but it would definitely be more sad even if I was driving a car, not listening to music.
2. I am not sure that we can treat it as a type of medicine but in my opinion it can helps our mind so if we see relation between our mind and our body maybe we can agree with this statement.
3. Music is very important in my life and I have to admit that it helps me a lot. As I already said I always learn with music because without it it would be really hard to focus. When I am angry or sad music motivates me.
Yes of course, especially when I'm sad music can make me feel better.
2. Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Yes as it descibed in this article.
3. How important is music for you?
Music is very important for me. It can brings up memories, put me in a good mood, but sometimes when I wwokring on learning and need strong focus I prefer silence.
Music is indeed a medicine for our minds. It can help you with studying, make you more focused or more energetic if you want. But the most important: it can help you with stress so I can agree with that- music can be a medicine.
For me music is very important. In work I'm constantly listening to something. For me it's a tool that helps me beeing more productive or helps me relax.
Im listening to music during housework, cooking, studying... or even when I'm playing the guitar (in this situation only ambient or game soundtracks). So it's very important to me. But I still appreciate real life soundtrack :)
2. Yes, but mostly as a supplement to the therapy
3. It is hard to tell. It would be probably more important if I knew how to play on something. Piano would be great
I don't agree with sentence that music can be a medicine. It's only my private opinion because music has difficult effect on us. In my case, music can relax but not be treated as drug.
Music is very important for me. I spend a lot of time on Spotify/YouTube. I always listen music before and after my job. I can't imagine my life without my favorite songs.
For decades people're mostly listening to music for entertainment, relaxation etc.
Maybe not medicine for everything but yes It might help with deppresion and some other diseases. But who knows, maybe if you tune audio waves properly it would cure some of the wiruses ( I am not a specialist so I am not sure if it's even possible)
It is very important but I wouldn't say that I couldn't live without music. For me It's a thing to relax a bit and reduce noise in crowded places.
Yes, of course, music helps me to feel relaxed. Music is live for me.
3. Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Music is live for me :) I also know that music uplifting a mood for simple person and I trust that music can helps to ill people.
5. How important is music for you?
I love to dance and music is the main constituent of energy :)
Yes, I think that I can't live without music - it's my life. I enjoy music in almost every situation - when I'm mad, sad or just happy. I always like to listen to something new, that I didn't heard before. It's fantastic that we live in the times, where music is avalible almost everywhere.
Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Yes. Music helps me a lot when I'm sad, it can make me relaxed and I can think about something different.
How important is music for you?
Music is my life :)
Yes, because in this article you mention that it helps to fight Parkinson's disease and autism.
Music is very important to me. Every morning when I go to work or to the university I listen to music from the phone. Also when I drive a car. When I'm at home, sometimes I start the music from TV or radio.
2. Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?: I haven’t heard about music treatment before. I think it’s a very interesting topic and I think it’s possible that music can be a medicine. I don’t have a lot of knowledge about nervous system but from mine experience I know that music affects me in relaxing way. So I belive it can help in our health problems.
3. How important is music for you?: Music take a big part of my life. Among others I listen the music during work on the computer or when I drive a car. For example when I work music helps me in concentration and relax me while I am making a dinner. Inasmuch I work as a editor I always use music in my projects to finish them. Without this my movies would not be so interesting and lively.
I agree that music can be a medicine. However, I think that it won't cure you. It's a nice addition that can speed up the, but you cannot replace everything with it.
I listen to music every day, so I can say it's a significant impact on my day. As we know, depending on what sort of music we listen I can impact on us differently. For example, we can boost our body and motivation listening to a special playlist made for a workout.
Yes, I'm agree with that music can be a medicine but generally it has effect placebo (in my own opinion). Because once I have listen to music in my childhood and I felt better at that time but I can't explain why that has happen. So I think that sometimes music can help us feel better.
Music help me to work because my brain dive in to special state when I can sit in one place and don't move a lot but still feel good and be satisfied in my surrounding.
Is truly something to be seen.
Of course it does. I'm listening to the music all the time, even now writing it :D.
I have a lot of playlists for every kind of mood I'm in.
2. Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Yes, I agree. I think that there is a possibility that music is able to cure some problems with psyche etc. One thing I'm sure - music can get you out of depression, as well as it's able to get you into depression. Music is a powerful weapon.
3.How important is music for you?
Music is one of the most important things in my life. I just love it and many types of it.
I'm listening to rock, metal, heavy metal, nu metal, rap, electro and more.
I have something about 130 original CD's of my favorite bands/artists.
2.I think that music can be a medicine. Especially when illness is connected with our psychological condition.
3.It's hard to tell. I listen to music everyday so I guess it must be quite important in my life. Definitely it has impact on me but I don't know how big actually.
Yes, it definitely helps me to relax. First of all you should choose proper genre. For each person there is a genre and its own music that can well affect his nervous system. I really think that music can be cure for the mind.
Well, when I was little I had that period of nightmares. And my father turned on chilling jazz for me with sounds of the sea, so it's culms me down and I had really great dreams. So even now when I feel really bad it calms me down. I feel more safety and started think clearly. I guess this type of music means a lot for me.
It's good to know that music before surgery works.As I wrote in the article Music cures :)
So does music help me to relax?
Of course yes. When I am spending time on learning a new song or just listening to music it makes me feel ‘out of the world’, just me and music. But I can’t listen to music during some other work, because then I could not concentrate on that work.
Music could be a perfect medicine from stress, but it depends on the kind of music.
WOW, I did not know that the sound of dolphins can be used as a medicine nice!!!
I have to try it because I think sometimes it's not good with my nervous system :) :) :)
How well do I remember once you told me how you were dj :)
Yes! I am very vulnerable to music and vibes streamed from song I listen to. That's why I play some slow, relaxing songs when I want to chill out.
Do you agree with that music can be a medicine?
Yes, everything is in our head and music affects us deep inside our mind. I cannot explain the exact process, but I strongly believe that music may be the pill for everything we need.
How important is music for you?
It is not as important as it was few years ago, but it still my morning choice while commuting to work. It is also my go to place when I need to recall some feelings or to return into some psychology state.
Apparently there have been cases which argue music had been beneficial for patients health, possibly it is true.
Music is immensely important to me as I enjoy playing instruments by myself as well as in a bigger ensemble.