5 Ways Music Can Help You Live a Happier Life
Jill Suttie wrote a recent article detailing five ways that music can help you live a happier and healthier life. Click here for the full article, with bulleted takeaways below to a happier life.
Reducing stress and anxiety.
Listening to music can slow down your heart rate when it’s increased during an anxiety attack.
Music lowers elevated cortisol levels that happen with stress and anxiety.
It helps people sync breathing with heart rates which also makes it easier to breathe when stressed.
Help decrease pain.
Music can help release dopamine which is your body’s natural pain killer.
Improve the function of your immune system.
Researchers showed that students listening to music had higher IGA (a type of healthy antibody) levels compared to those who didn’t.
Music can improve memory.
In a recent study conducted on dementia patients, those who sang or listened to music were found to have relatively better memories than those in the control group. So if you have children that like to listen to music while studying, encourage them!
Music can help us exercise.
British researchers found that folks listening to music were able to exercise longer than those without music. Additionally, those listening to music with faster beats were able to perform longer than others and felt better after exercising. Another study showed that participants listening to faster more upbeat music had better breathing functions.