People sometimes play some music for certain mental health issues. However, is there medical evidence to prove music offers any sort of healing?
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Yes, music do have healing properties. There are certain music tracks and music therapy techniques which could help a person to reduce anxiety, eases depression, enhances concentration and creativity, induce quality sleep. Music therapy has been found helpful in pain reduction and decreases nausea feeling during chemotherapy in cancer patients. All these proves that music holds a important healing properties at both body and mind level.
Well for me I have a bit of a temper, music usually often calms me down and stops me in my tracks before I say or do something wrong. I also love meditation music it helps me meditate and do yoga gives me a clear and relaxed mind. people use different kinds of genres of music for whatever mood their in if I wanna clean ill-use upbeat music if I wanna rest ill-use calming ocean music sounds if I wanna work out ill-use electric pop music it all depends on me.
Before giving any scientific explanation, I would like to share my own childhood experience. When I was a kid, I was afraid of dark whenever the light goes out I panicked, I always felt like anytime the ghost will appear or something like that, Then I start to sing loudly and as the volume of my voice increases, I felt less fear and every time the light goes out I started to do so. Therefore according to me, music or song do have a certain effect on our brain. Coming to the scientific explanation, Music engages our brain from the current situation and drifts our thoughts with its rhythm to the beautiful memories we have. Researches have been conducted and it proved that music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well. But it also depends upon which type of music are we listing. Listing to relaxing music can help us cope with our anxiety and stress and will keep us calm and relaxed. Music also has the ability to heal us.
There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that music has any sort of healing properties. However, there is a whiff of medical evidence available, as some songs have been known to help with conditions such as anxiety and depression. Although there is no constant evidence to support this claim, there is potential for there to be a few scattered examples of evidence that suggests music may help in a specific situation.