It is a well-known fact that listening to music has a positive affect on our brain waves and physiology.
Whether we need to slow down or speed up, music can help us go where we need to go.
Music therapy is used for pain management, to promote healing, reduce stress, and to stimulate brain activity.
Brainwaves can affect breathing and heart rate.
Music has been shown to reduce blood pressure and to alleviate depression.
Both of these conditions can be life threatening and if something as simple as listening to music can help, it should be part of our healthy lifestyle.
A little relaxation and pleasure can actually protect us from making ourselves physically sick from stress, which is a very real possibility.
Music can benefit our state of mind even after we stop listening to it, and unlike drugs, music is completely safe.
(Safe as long as we don't blast it too loud, which has the total opposite affect, and can damage our hearing).
Even dental offices are piping in music.
This has the benefit of giving people who are in a state of anxiety, something else to focus on.
Dancing to music is a much more natural and pleasant way to help lose weight and to promote circulation than boring gym machines or repetitive exercises.
Having said that, music can also make the gym or exercising more pleasant.
Whether you like rock and roll, classical, jazz, or gospel music, and listen in the car, at home, or at work, there are many ways we can benefit from hearing music in the background.
So listen up!