How Music Benefits Us

Music Makes Us happy

Music makes us happy because the brain releases dopamine a neurotransmitter that leads to increased feelings of happiness, excitement, and joy, when you listen to music you like. So if you need an emotional boost just listen to music you like and by somehow your brain releases happy hormones that makes you happy. So cheer up and listen to some music.

Reduces Depression and Anxiety

Yes, that's right it reduces depression, research found out that those patient with depressive emotion who listened to classical music help reduces the depression and anxiety. So when you are feeling down and feel like everything's not right, just listen to some music and let the music bring you up.

Music Strengthens Memory and Learning

Research found out that that music can help your studies. music can help you learn and recall information better. That's why some of us listen to music while studying because it improves the learning and help us to be more efficient on recalling things.

Boosts Our Immune System and Reduces Pain

Music is capable of reducing levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is responsible for weakening the immune system, interfering with learning and memory, increasing risk of heart disease, lowering bone density, blood pressure, etc. Research found that listening 50 minutes in uplifting music can help the increase of anti bodies in our body resulting to increase of immune system.

Music Improves Sleep

We know that listening to music have a lot of impact in our brain that's why listening to music before bed time helps you to reduce insomnia. Study found that listening to calm and relaxing music helps us to improve our sleep.

Music Helps You Eat Less

“There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.” – Thomas Hardy

Research found out that those who listen to soft music consume fewer calories, that's why most of buffets have soft music. So if you are on a diet, listen to some soft music and it helps you to consume fewer calories.

Music Improves Our Running

Scientist found that runners who listened to fast and slow motivational music ran faster than runners that listened to calm music or without music at all in a 800 meter dash. Still, it depends on the type of the music you want that keeps you motivated and to move forward.