SOUVIK CHAKRABORT Y
Healing
on a
Good Note!
The first music that a human listens
to is the heartbeat and body rhythms
of the mother from inside the womb.
On the contrary, cacophonies of our
days give way to more stress, than
our collective workloads in all. We
have gone through the rustles and
bustles of too many odd tunes that
hurt the eardrums. Imagine the aura
of judiciously using this affect to the
boon of mankind. In fact, music can be
used as a great medicine for the mind,
soul and body.
International medical councils and
research laboratories have found out a
ton of information on the benevolence
of music.
Music helps greatly in ailing and
boosting up autonomic nervous
systems of the human body. A good
track could largely increase your blood
flow and make your cell regeneration
faster and lift your soul to almost
a state of the elixir of life. The well
being of the physical and mental
health is ensured by the release of
the dopamines and other pleasure
hormones which gives a way to relieve
one of his psychological stress and
anxieties too.
A research was conducted in Austria
which incorporated a control group of
patients and the other group was given
a visual and music therapy only and
that resulted in a remarkable relief in
back pain and lower body discomforts
in a series of patients. This is largely
because when somebody listens to
music, the relaxed breathing system
facilitates a transpiring experience
that leads to a flushed out system from
toxins and viruses.
The human brain picks up
memory and music on almost two
simultaneously placed sectors of the
brain. This grossly means that the
brain interprets the music better
rather than the words. Thus, the
people with amnesia can largely be
treated with music therapy alone.
Patients in a research were found to be
doing better with taped music rather
than the control group who had only
been exposed to normal conditions
without music.
Music releases endorphins like many
other triggers in our brains that create
a chemical warfare between the yin
and the yang within our system. A
professor in Virginia found out that
the cyclists who had listened to music
while cycling on road have covered 11
per cent more than the ones which did
not get to listen to any music.
The human brain thrives on repetitive
wave forms and thus the addiction to
music has come such a long way in
the history of civilization of mankind.
Humans have learnt to lull young
babies going to sleep or stare away
wild animals around a bonfire all
through music. The fetishistic clinging
to the right kind of music has left many
nationalistic leaders to use anthems
and ritualistic patriotic tunes to instill
the passion for fighting for the country
in the hearts of the countrymen.
The long term relationship of music
with the striatal dopaminergic system
has led to many theorems of facts and
fictions. But, the truth is that our
mind needs an embalming melody and
that rhythm could be classical, rock,
pop or whatever the mind is hungry
for. Studies have found that a group
consisting of different age groups has
been reacting same, with an increased
level of efficiency after a session of
classical house music. The same could
be true for a household listening to a
different genre too.
The neurosciences of music is so
fascinating that music can practically
alter our rates for memory, attention,
movement and our autonomous
nervous system in general. So, that
means one can practically sedate and
live up to the brimming life with just
by the virtues of his musical taste.
But, if music was such a big surprise
for the medical sciences; why was it
not cultivated to the level and scale
that it should have been. Is music a
placebo, then? But, then how could so
many researches lie all at the same
time. How could you de stress at an
EDM concert after a long week at
work? There is something happening
some where deep inside our core. And,
that spiritual experience is the purity
that our life searches in all things float
in the thin air, perhaps, it may be just
coincidence that we call it "music".
Thus, Nietzsche had rightly pointed
out long back - "Without music, life
would be a mistake”
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