Health Corner: On That Note by Lydia Harris What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know: Music Makes a Body Better Applied the right way, music controls the emotions, lowers stress levels, treats pain from several health conditions, and creates positive sense-related behaviors. According to Moore and reams of scientific and medical data that supports her theory, music affects negative areas of your life, positively.
As a musician, entertainer, or music lover, you know that music makes you feel really good. Music creates a vibration and organic response used to treat medical conditions. Music therapy is low to no-cost, rarely has negative side effects, is mood-elevating, and contributes to healing. But it is not profitable like drugs are for Big Pharma. Dr. Kimberly Sena Moore is a Miami neurologic Music Therapist, who “uses music to make lives better.” Music helps you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Music speeds up developmental processes in infants and toddlers. It strengthens social skills and focus.
You changed your gait to match the rhythm of the music you are recreating. So, music alters your behavior, making it a therapeutic device.
Researchers found that music heals physical pain and relieves stress. So, the next time your body aches, take your mind off of the pain by Your brain is hardwired to respond singing your favorite song. Play your to music. Even in cultures centuries favorite tunes on Alexa. Enjoy your past, mothers used rhythmic favorite music to make the health rocking, soft humming, and soothing connection to improve your level of lullabies to put their babies to sleep. wellness. On the evolutionary timeline, music emerged long before spoken Music has a profound impact on language. Day-old infants respond your emotions and your physical to different rhythmic patterns state of being. Music therapy is used and sequences. For whatever to treat patients with Alzheimer’s, reason, humans were created to be Parkinson’s disease, physical pains predisposed to the effects of music. and ailments, stress, and anxiety. Music has been proven effective for Have you ever walked down the calming premature infants and their street, humming or singing some concerned parents. tune, only to find that you are walking, hopping, or dancing in step Humans were created with that song? That is because your to be predisposed to the brain receives musical vibrations that dictate your physical behavior. effects of music. The quality of the music does not matter, since you rarely recreate the Lydia Harris sound of an instrument or the voice in your favorite song, perfectly. However, when you repeat a song by humming or singing it, your brain understands that you are recreating a positive moment. Aside from emotional and spiritual upliftment, your physical behavior changed.
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