Music has the power to bring people together and make connections where there were none before. Also on a collective social level, music can have powerful healing benefits. The benefits of music are not only limited to an emotional, physical and vibrational level. If you would like to learn more about the healing vibrations of sound, check out our article on sound healing. Entrainment describes that when you bring an object that vibrates at a particular frequency close to another object, eventually the object vibrating at a lower frequency will start to vibrate on the same frequency as the more powerful one. On the level of quantum physics, these low frequencies are in essence only vibrational blockages, which can be changed through music and sound through ‘entrainment‘. Harmonic sound frequencies can assist in restoring our bodies to health by lifting up the dis-eased vibrations of stress, illness and depression in our body. This vibration coming from sound can be extremely beneficial in the physical and mental healing of our bodies. When sound travels, our bodies respond to the frequency of the vibration the sound emits. On a molecular level, our bodies are also nothing more but energy, made up of millions and billions of tiny particles vibrating at a specific frequency. Sound is nothing physically tangible, but merely an energetic vibration that our bodies can sensory perceive with our ears. In its basic form, music is sound and sound is nothing more than a wave of vibration that carries a specific frequency traveling through the air. Music can help here to unwind and facilitate physiological healing. However, in our stressful daily lives, we are often ‘trapped‘ in a fight-flight mode. Only in the parasympathetic nervous system are we able to heal our bodies and restoring them back to balance. The sounds we hear signal our body to slow down. Music can bring us back from our sympathetic nervous system, our fight-flight-freeze response into our parasympathetic nervous system, our relaxed state of being. Listening to music lowers our cortisol levels and therefore also our stress response. Cortisol levels are linked to our bodies stress response. Listening to music can even produce direct biological changes, such as reducing heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol levels. When listening to harmonious sounds or upbeat tunes, our brain sends signals to our nervous system that we are safe and that we can relax. The sound perceived by our senses create neurological responses in our brain, telling our bodies to relax and come back into its natural state. Music, probably the most ubiquitous of all art forms, can help the body and brain relax. Next to the better known emotional benefits of music, there are also physical healing properties of listening to music. How music can lower stress and balances our system If the patient kept the bad memories to themselves, it builds up tension, but if they release them, they also release the tension. Since a while now, music therapy is seen as a valid additional treatment for depression, anxiety and chronic pain, but only recently, music therapy has also been used to treat patients with Parkinson or Alzheimer’s disease.įrom an emotional healing perspective, music therapy connects patients with memories, associations, thoughts, and helps them relax, helps them to deal with their emotions and to release them in a healthy way.Įven if memories coming up with the music are negative, it is not a problem, because then the patient can talk about them and finally release the negative emotion attached to it. Nevertheless, it can be interesting to investigate the benefits of music on our body, mind and soul from a scientific point of view, to understand what is going on in our bodies when we are listening to music. Just think about which song managed to help you get through your last heartbreak. ![]() You don’t have to be psychologist or brain scientist to know how healing and soothing music can be. The emotional healing properties of musicĪlthough research has been focusing on the healing powers of music only since around 50 years, the knowledge that music is healing for body, mind and soul is probably as old as the discovery of music itself. ![]() ![]() In the following, we uncover how music can be used as medicine to restore our physical, mental and emotional health. Just listening to music in the right manner can be incredibly therapeutic and can help us heal. Music is often considered as “the healing power of the arts“ and can have a tremendous impact on our bodies as well as on our mental health. But music is even more powerful than just reliving old memories from lost love or happy childhood days.
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