The best way to use music to heal after a break-up
6 years, 2 months ago

The best way to use music to heal after a break-up

ABC  

Thank u, next isn't just the tune of the summer, it's also the perfect break-up song. The science of music and moving on Listening to sad music, including when experiencing "love sickness or a break-up", can lead to beneficial emotional effects a 2014 study found. Tasmanian artist and songwriter Claire Anne Taylor says music can help people feel less isolated when experiencing heartbreak. Claire Anne Taylor says music helps her feel connected. Cognitive behaviour therapy and opening the mind Another reason to choose music that helps you reframe rather than ruminate is the idea that "when we start nursing a negative thought, it becomes like a groove in a record you replay over and over," Professor Thompson says.

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What is burnout and how can music help to solve this problem?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

What is burnout and how can music help to solve this problem?

ABC  

With end of year commitments from schools, workplaces and families piling up, many of us feel we're burning out. "It's the experience of being overwhelmed and exhausted by everything you have to do, and yet somehow still worry that you're not doing enough," says author and musician Amelia Nagoski. "So we need to separate out the process of dealing with …

Tune In to the Healing Powers of a Decent Playlist
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tune In to the Healing Powers of a Decent Playlist

Wired  

Beliefs and practices about music's ability to heal the mind, body, and spirit date back to the Upper Paleolithic period, about 20,000 years ago. AI will help here—not in writing music, but in selecting the songs and genres that meet both an individual’s tastes and the desired therapeutic and wellness goals. In the same way that an individual’s DNA can …

Music: The Secret Weapon for Faster Healing After Surgery
5 months ago

Music: The Secret Weapon for Faster Healing After Surgery

Hindustan Times  

Music has healing effects on the body, especially for a person recovering after a surgery. Listening to music can result in magical healing effects on the body, reducing pain and anxiety levels. Music helps in reducing the perception of pain, reducing heart rate, and consuming less morphine. It also helps in facilitating the transition from waking-up-stage to a return-to-normalcy-stage.

Why Does Listening To Sad Music Help In Times Of Sadness? IIT Mandi Researchers Looking For Answers
2 years, 2 months ago

Why Does Listening To Sad Music Help In Times Of Sadness? IIT Mandi Researchers Looking For Answers

ABP News  

Why does listening to sad music help in times of sadness? The researchers found that when recalling a sad experience, there is enhanced gamma wave activity, while listening to sad music leads to increased alpha brain activity. The finding that has been published in the journal "PLOS One" shows that the brain's activity when listening to sad music is unique …

When the sound of music relieves stress
2 years, 4 months ago

When the sound of music relieves stress

Live Mint  

Don't we all have that playlist, whether it is filled with classical symphonies or hip-hop beats, or some heavy metal, that helps manage frustration or centre energy? “Music therapy involves an interactive way of using music by a professionally trained therapist in a one-on-one setting or in a group setting," she says, adding that music can help regulate attention, emotion, …

Advantages of music therapy for general mental health
2 years, 7 months ago

Advantages of music therapy for general mental health

India TV News  

Ancient civilisations had a strong musical tradition, which is present in all cultures today. When employed by experienced and skilled experts, music therapy is an evidence-based, efficient, and safe method of treatment that is used to treat people who require mental healthcare. Improves cognitive functions and delays Alzheimer's Music therapy helps in improving the cognitive abilities of individuals and slows …

You've got the music in you
2 years, 9 months ago

You've got the music in you

ABC  

Sana Qadar: Matt McCrary is a man of many talents. Sana Qadar: So, on today's show, how music affects us from the womb through the rest of our lives, and what new research tells us about its measurable impact on our health. Matt McCrary: Yes, we found that the impact of music on physical health related quality-of-life is not significant, …

The healing power of music
3 years, 9 months ago

The healing power of music

Deccan Chronicle  

World Music Day, an annual celebration of music when music lovers organize free concerts and other musical events in neighborhood parks and open spaces, didn’t happen in public places this year thanks to the danger of the pandemic still lurking around. However, that doesn’t stop us from dedicating the day to learning about one of the many benefits of music, …

Music Therapy: 5 ways in which music can help you heal
4 years, 1 month ago

Music Therapy: 5 ways in which music can help you heal

India Today  

Music is an art of expressing ideas and emotions in beautiful forms like rhythm, melody, tones, harmony, humming, etc. Music reduces stress and anxiety: Research has shown that listening to music with a slow tempo or instrumentation can put people at ease and calm them down even during highly stressful or painful events. Music helps us to exercise: Many of …

Can Music Really Cure Your Depression? Here's What Science Says
4 years, 3 months ago

Can Music Really Cure Your Depression? Here's What Science Says

News 18  

Can listening to music when you’re feeling sad make enough of a difference — to the point where it makes you feel better? As the pandemic continues to rage and trigger fear, anguish and loneliness, could music help us fight these negative emotions? A group of researchers has shown that some aspects of music could help us detox emotionally as …

Music to help you sleep, exercise, relax, cry, and get it on
4 years, 8 months ago

Music to help you sleep, exercise, relax, cry, and get it on

ABC  

A series of playlists to help you do the things that help your mental health Music makes us happy, and it makes us sad. Our music experts spend a lot of time considering how music makes us feel, and how it can help us in our daily lives. Listen above or via the ABC Listen app. This playlist starts off …

30 minutes of music a day is good for the heart
5 years ago

30 minutes of music a day is good for the heart

Hindustan Times  

Listening to music for 30 minutes every day can be good for your heart as researchers have found that patients who suffered episodes of chest pain soon after a heart attack, known as early post-infarction angina, had significantly lower levels of anxiety and pain. “Based on our findings, we believe music therapy can help all patients after a heart attack, …

Boredom, mother of creativity: Brain research throws up the power of music
6 years, 3 months ago

Boredom, mother of creativity: Brain research throws up the power of music

Deccan Chronicle  

When fed with music, the entire brain-sphere is aglow, showing that the power of music influences every part of the organ. One small study investigating effects of music on dopamine found a nine per cent increase in brain dopamine levels when people listened to music that gave them chills. Music listening also reportedly lowers requirements for opiate drugs in postoperative …

Striking a chord, NIH taps the brain to find how music heals
7 years, 3 months ago

Striking a chord, NIH taps the brain to find how music heals

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Like a friendly Pied Piper, the violinist keeps up a toe-tapping beat as dancers weave through busy hospital hallways and into the chemotherapy unit, patients looking up in surprised delight. Music increasingly is becoming a part of patient care — although it’s still pretty unusual to see roving performers captivating entire wards, like at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital …

World Music Day: 5 ways how music can be therapeutic for your mind, body and soul
7 years, 9 months ago

World Music Day: 5 ways how music can be therapeutic for your mind, body and soul

India TV News  

Music can not only rejuvenate your mind, body and soul but can heal you emotionally and physically. On the occasion of World Music Day, we will shed light on few of such benefits of listening music. Below are the benefits of music: Treating insomnia: Due to the fast pace and modern lifestyle, people often complains of sleeping disorders. Boosting energy …

If music be the food of love, play on!
8 years ago

If music be the food of love, play on!

The Hindu  

Music is a mood-maker. Volunteers who were put in a ‘happy’ mood listening to soothing music were asked to identify the facial expression of an individual or a face. Music therapy That music can regulate mood and ‘arousal’ in everyday life and can be used to promote physical and psychological health has been known for quite some time. While stimulating …

Music as medicine: how songs could soon replace painkillers and help you sleep better
8 years ago

Music as medicine: how songs could soon replace painkillers and help you sleep better

Wired  

In September 2013, Marko Ahtisaari resigned from his position as the head of product design at Nokia. “The music group used one-third of the amount of morphine in comparison to a control group who didn’t listen to music,” Ahtisaari says. “Given the opioid epidemic that we have, and particularly how some of it starts after surgery, it seems to me …

7 Undeniable Benefits Of Listening To Music
8 years, 4 months ago

7 Undeniable Benefits Of Listening To Music

Huff Post  

There’s power in pressing play. Below are just a few science-backed benefits of listening to your favorite songs : Ezra Bailey via Getty Images Music relieves anxiety. Studies show listening to music can physiologically ease stress and even reduce depressive symptoms. A 2014 study found that when people listen to melancholy songs they experienced more empathy because they connected to …

Are music and happiness linked?
8 years, 7 months ago

Are music and happiness linked?

CNN  

Story highlights A new study shows a correlation between happiness and the enjoyment of music Why? “People who intentionally interact with music, they’re using an outlet to express their emotions.” Quiz: What does your favorite music say about you? “I think is more reflective of the way we think about music.” Consider this, for instance: Listening to music alone doesn’t …

Why We Love Listening To Sad Music On Repeat
9 years, 5 months ago

Why We Love Listening To Sad Music On Repeat

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Did “All Too Well ” maim you, too? The researchers discovered that those who listened to the sad music also experienced more empathy because they felt connected to the sadness of the music’s artist but experienced no “real life implications” of the sad event. As Science Alert reported in 2016: “The body is essentially preparing itself to …

5 Ways Music Improves Our Health
10 years, 1 month ago

5 Ways Music Improves Our Health

Huff Post  

By Jill Suttie When I gave birth to my first-born, I listened to CDs of classical music in the hospital. Music’s neurological reach, and its historic role in healing and cultural rituals, has led researchers to consider ways music may improve our health and wellbeing. In one study, researchers found that patients receiving surgery for hernia repair who listened to …

There's A Reason You Love Sad Music After A Breakup, New Study Says
10 years, 4 months ago

There's A Reason You Love Sad Music After A Breakup, New Study Says

Huff Post  

You go through a breakup and all you want to do is lie on your couch in pajamas listening to melancholic, soul-shattering music. What that means in layman's terms is that you get pleasure from connecting with the music and letting your imagination run with the spontaneity of the melody; you regulate and vent your emotions after identifying with the …

Listening to sad music tunes lift our moods, finds researchers at University of Berlin
10 years, 4 months ago

Listening to sad music tunes lift our moods, finds researchers at University of Berlin

Daily Mail  

Most of us choose to listen to sad music when feeling lonely or distressed People experience more than three emotions when listening to sad songs A new study revealed that people experience more than three emotions when listening to sad songs, such as ballads sung by Adele Turn up those tearjerkers and dig out your Radiohead albums, because scientists claim …

Music Therapy
22 years, 8 months ago

Music Therapy

NPR  

Music Therapy Guests: Connie Tomaino * Director and Vice President for Music Therapy Services, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function * Beth Abraham Health Services * Bronx, New York Maria Logis * Management Consultant * Con Edison * Improvisational artist, singer, and song-writer * New York, New York William Benzon * Cognitive scientist * Author, Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind …

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