Does music actually impact your emotions?
Music is powerful enough to make us experience
emotions and many people listen to songs just to feel emotions. So, in result
music is constantly being researched and its impact on emotions and now is used
for therapy. As myself being a big fan of music and the feelings it gives me, I
thought this would be a great opportunity dig deeper about this topic.
Joy, sadness, relaxation, these are only some
of the emotions that can be provoked by music. This is because music activates
the emotion related parts of the brain (the limbic system). Upper beats tend to
impulse happiness and excitement in our brain, while lower beats give us more
chills and makes us calmer or even sadder. However, rhythm is not the only
reason why music affects our emotion, the lyrics are also very important. Sometimes
music is able to impulse emotions in people do to memories connected to a song,
for example, when a mother sings to its baby a sweet song many times, in the
future the baby will grow and remember the music with emotion. Personally, when
a song has very strong lyrics or message, it definitely triggers emotions in me.
It is also very therapeutical, especially if the lyrics of a song matches the
situation in which a person is, as the person will identify themselves with the
song and feel understood. And in my
case, music is like the remedy to all my problems.
This leads to Music Therapy, this is an
established health therapy which uses music to address physical, cognitive,
emotional and social needs of a person. First, the professional analyses the
strengths and necessities of the individual and then he decides and indicates
the treatment which involves creating, singing and moving and/or listening to
music. This therapy is very helpful for people that have trouble with
expressing themselves. In fact, this kind of therapy is very helpful to people
which suffer from depression, anxiety, substance dependency, schizophrenia, autism
and many more health issues (mostly mental).
With this research, I confirmed what I believed
which was that music can indeed affect someone’s emotions a lot. But, I also
learned that music therapy is very effective. The reason why I believed that
this was true is because I listen to music a lot and it always has an impact on
how my mood is.
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