Music is Powerful and Stress Reducing

It’s a universal language that has been noted by many as having healing, relaxing, soothing, calming and de-stressing effects.  Music is everywhere from listening to the birds outside our windows, as background in movies, to being plugged into our IPods, radios, CD’s and, of course, playing a musical instrument or singing.

Music helps them release their emotional creativity.  When we think of music we typically think of a source of entertainment, but the more popular notion these days is using music as a means of therapy.  For example, the use of percussion instruments has an almost immediate benefit to children dealing with anxiety issues.  The bang-away is an almost immediate release of emotions while the musical process helps to develop the left/right brain functions. 




By exposing subjects to loud music such as the various genres of rock, neuroscientists found decreased concentration, memory and even intelligence.One of the reasons is perhaps of the irregular rhythm of such music. Neuroscientists theorized that irregular rhythms that do not correlates with the brain’s rhytms is essentially noise of the brain. Background noise (such as those of refrigerator, air-conditioner and even computers), has been shown to have the same effect on the developing minds of toddlers.