The music has the ability to make us go back in time, to animate a party or create the environment for a relaxed evening and calm. It can affect your life positively and in a very real way.
There are countless reasons for you to get lost in beautiful music, from improving your mood to increasing your motivation. Here are just a few of the scientifically proven benefits you get from listening to your favorite music (as if you really need to convince it!).
Music relieves anxiety
Studies reveal that listening to music can physiologically reduce stress and even decrease symptoms of depression. Researchers in the UK even claim that certain songs are able to reduce our anxiety by 65%.
In other words, music can be a medicine for the mind.
It promotes good humor:
Out of jest, happy music can make you feel like you're Walking on Sunshine. Research shows that music can lift our mood and make us happier.
It helps heal our emotional pains:
Admit: You've heard Adele non-stop after finishing with someone you liked (and you do not have to be ashamed of that!). Science shows that this can help. Research suggests that sad songs can actually induce positive emotions.
A 2017 study found that when people hear melancholic songs, they feel more empathic , because they identify with the sadness expressed by the artist, but they did not live the "real-life implications" of the sad event of which he sings. This, in turn, may have a cathartic effect, according to experts.
Music can motivate us when we work:
A full song can be the secret to motivate us to work out with a claw. Studies suggest that music can strengthen your workout , as well as help you run faster and boost your stamina.
Music can improve our sleep:
A 2018 study found that listening to classical music helps alleviate insomnia symptoms in college students. Other research also suggests that music can plunge us into a meditative mood. That is, a more than pleasant way to help us sleep better.
Music boosts our performance:
Do you have to face a big project? Listen to some music. Studies reveal that background music is able to elevate people's cognitive performance when performing tasks such as academic exams (but that may depend on whether that music first raises their astral awareness). Research also suggests that animated songs help us perform well under pressure.
The music does not go out of your head:
There is a reason why you never stop enjoying those old boy bands' songs: music is the biggest factor that exists to trigger homesickness. Experts believe that our brains remain attached to the songs of our youth because we hear them at a time when we were forming a perception of ourselves, our social ties and the world around us.
In a way, music helped shape our identity.
