Music is a universal language all people speak to use for happiness, relaxation, mental health, and healing. Learn the benefits of music and how to use it for the best health and healing in your life.
Music is a big part of our lives. It’s featured in rites of passage like graduations and weddings, and music even accompanies funerals, serenading the dead to their final resting place. It’s great for parties, jamming in the car on the way to a stressful job, and on summer evenings, dancing with friends on some quaint restaurant patio. What is it that makes music so good for the soul, mind, and body? Join SpiritualBlossom to find out. Learn precisely what it is and the science behind what makes music so beneficial. Then, learn three easy ways to bring more music into your life- one of which will surprise you. Music moves us in ways we don’t necessarily understand, but by the time you finish reading, you will. Read on!
What is Music?
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”- Stevie Wonder
Music is a type of organization of sounds. It creates some type of harmony, rhythm, or melody. It is present in all human societies. It is considered a universal language that all people speak. It is performed using not only the human voice but a variety of musical instruments. It plays a major role in religious and social events and forms important cultural traditions. People don't just use it for cultural, social, or religious reasons. They use it for entertainment, relaxation, and study.
Historically, no one can agree whether language or music was developed first. However, musical instruments like the he Divje Babe flute that are very old have been found. It was created from a cave bear femur bone in Slovenia and may be as old as 60,000 years old. So, we know that humans and our ancestors have created and listened to music for a very long time. People have always needed music. To hear a reproduction of the Divje Babe flute played, watch this video: Ljuben Dimkaroski plays the Divje Babe Bone Flute
What Are the Benefits of Music?
“ Music is the medicine of the mind.”- John Logan
Music has countless benefits. It benefits the mind by activating all of the brain, stimulating the memory, and improving your mood. It helps your physical health by relieving stress, improving your cardiovascular health, and helping to reduce pain. Spiritually, music helps to connect you to your higher power, connect you to other people, and you can use music to get into trance for ritual.
Mind
The mind might be mysterious, but music demystifies things. If you want to use all of your brain, listen to music or study it. Countless memories are formed by music, and activated when the same music is played years down the road. Each time you're having a bad day, if you listen to your favorite music, it will improve your mood.
It Activates All of the Brain
The limbic system of the brain is a group of brain areas that help to regulate emotions, create motivation, memory, and behavior. This is stimulated by music. The Cerebral cortex helps with thinking, reasoning, learning, memory, emotions, problem solving, functions controlled by your senses, and your very sense of consciousness. This is activated by music also. Quick changes in tone and key in music can help you to focus. That's why when you listen to music even as background noise, it can help you to complete tasks better. So go ahead and listen to that music while you work. Hypnosis also activates the brain. Learn all about hypnosis here: The Power of Being Hypnotized
It Stimulates Memory
Do you remember the song that was playing when you met your one and only love for the first time? Of course you do. Every time you hear that song, a flood of memories will come back to you. Pretty soon you will be calling that “your song”. People with dementia tend to remember songs and music from years ago better than they can remember things like whether they had a good breakfast this morning or not. There's just something about music that imprints itself and the mind and is unforgettable. That's because of something called implicit memories, which means unconscious memories that are automatic. Implicit memory can last a lifetime even with brain deterioration. Music is a part of that. One thing everybody remembers is being ghosted. Find out what to do about it here: Ghosting – Why it Happens and What to Do About It
It Improves Mood
Music improves your mood in multiple ways. It stimulates the reward center of the brain and this can help you to let go of unhappiness, anger, anxiety, and even fear. It can redirect your thoughts when you're worried or anxious. It also elicits emotions that you can get more in touch with and explore. It actually makes your stress, or cortisol levels drop, and it lowers your heart rate. Studying music, or listening to it also improves your immune system and music can help make your mood a happy one. Read how to be happy even in difficult times here: Being Happy, Even in Dark Times
Body
Your mind might be a part of your body, but the rest of your body benefits from music besides just the brain. The mood enhancement of stress relief does amazing things for your health. Your cardiovascular health is one area that is improved drastically by the benefits of music. Music also helps to reduce pain.
Stress Relief
When your mood gets better, your stress is relieved. Something that you find pleasurable can take your mind off unpleasant things, and help you to refocus on something good, like the music that you love. Stress creates muscle tension, cardiovascular issues, and weakens the immune system. When music makes your mood better and reduces your stress, your body really benefits in these areas. One thing that is a big stress buster is sex. Read about why sex isn’t always lovemaking here: Why it’s Not Always Just Sexual
Improved Cardiovascular Health
Speaking of your cardiovascular health, music improves it in various ways. Your heartbeat might speed up when you're dancing in a way that benefits you as exercise, and this will lower your heart rate for the rest of the day. Your heart rate will also be lowered by the stress relief of music. Your blood pressure will lower as well. Better heart rate and blood pressure translates to better health in general because your heart is the center of your body pumping blood everywhere, and taking necessary oxygen throughout your entire body. So, listening to music can literally save your life. Holistics can also improve your health but are they legit? Find out here: Healing Holistically- Is It Legit?
Pain Reduction
Pain is reduced in two different ways by music. Muscle tension will be released when music helps you to relax and feel less stressed. Muscle tension is a big source of spinal pain which can create mobility issues and over time keep people from moving around as much as they need to, which will in turn make that pain even worse. When you dance along with music, the exercise will tone your muscles, stretch out stiffness, and help you to just feel better all around. It also pumps pain relieving hormones through your body which act as natural painkillers. Trauma is painful. Read about healing from past traumas here: Healing Form Past Traumas
Spirit
There are also countless benefits spiritually from music. A lot of people feel a connection to their higher power through music. Music helps to connect us to other people through ritual and worship services. Music creates vibrations and sound frequencies that help you to get into trance.
It Connects Us to Spirit
Music is included in religious ceremonies and spirituality because a lot of people feel closer to their higher power when they sing hymns of praise. Focusing on religious music during worship is just another way to focus your devotion. People who are musical will join choirs, listen to spiritual music reminding them of the presence of their goddess or god in their car going places. They also practice their music at home before they go to their place of worship to sing or play their musical instrument for worship services. The more time you spend focusing on spiritual music, the more you focus on the presence of your higher power. Music can help awaken you spiritually. Read all about spiritual awakenings here: Your Personal Spiritual Awakening Guide
It Connects Us to Others
In ritual or worship services, singing or playing the same music as other people who are attending will put you on the same spiritual wavelength, and help you to unite with them. Group magic using music can help you to focus on raising your energy together to send it toward your magical intention. When you share your magic or spirituality with other people, you connect with them spiritually. That helps to build relationships, and your spiritual family can become as close to you as your blood relatives. Some people say their spiritual family is actually closer to them than anyone, and spiritual music is one of the things that helps to build those bonds. Some of the people we form the strongest bonds with are friends. Read all about the love of friends here: All About the Love of Friends
Vibrations and Frequencies for Trance
Trance is a state of altered consciousness that music can help create. Music relaxes your mind and slows down your inner dialogue so that you can experience things in a different way. When you are in a ritual setting, with the vibrations and frequencies of repetitive music going on and on, something in your brain clicks and you go into trance. They say that music does not create the trance, but it sets the stage for your body to initiate trance on its own. When you enter the state of heightened awareness of trance, you perceive things differently, and it helps you to touch another side of existence, pulling away from the material so that you can experience spiritual things more deeply. Trance can be used in magic. Learn how to move energy for magic here: Energetic Magic- Conducting the Lifeforce
How To Benefit from Music
“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.”- Roald Dahl
Benefiting from music can be done in a number of ways, and it doesn't have to be difficult at all. The simplest way is to just listen to music. You can also benefit from music by dancing to it, but perhaps the best way to benefit from music is by studying it and performing it yourself. Don’t think that you can’t do it!
Listen
There was a time when music could only be enjoyed at a live performance. In the digital era of today however, music can be enjoyed in so many different ways. There is radio, online streaming, and even older things like CD's, LP's, and cassette tapes can be listened to. Nothing substitutes for a live musical performance, and the best part about that is you probably won't even need to go very far from your hometown to enjoy that. Schools, and local groups love to give concerts at restaurants, parks, and smaller concert venues. You can listen to music every day in so many different ways. Learn all about how to listen well in this article: How to Become Great at Listening
Dance
Like music, dance is a universal language that all people around the world speak. Dancing is not only good for your health as a form of exercise, but it reduces stress, and boosts your mood. It also helps you to have opportunities for self-expression and social interaction. A surprising benefit of dancing is that it helps with balance and coordination skills. You might discover that you dance extremely well and people admire the beauty of your expressive dance, which will give you a big self esteem boost. Does dancing make your dreams come true? Find out how to make dreams come true here; How to Make All Your Dreams Come True
Study and Perform
Studying and performing music as another way to enjoy it. You might say that you have no musical talent, but to study you don't need to be talented. Learning music provides skills and you may surprise yourself with how good you get at performing music if you study. Of course, the greatest musicians in the world become famous and rich from it, but you don't have to be a musical genius to perform it. Decide whether you want to sing or play a musical instrument, and find a teacher locally. You might have to get started with online lessons, but again in today's digital era, anything is possible! Learning to create music requires a lot of adapting. Find out how to be flexible and adapt here: Mastering the Fine Art of Being Flexible
Music is one of the first things that we experience as a child, our parents singing to us when we're babies. We will learn nursery rhymes, jingles, and easy songs as children. We will sing those same songs to our children when we become parents. Even people with hearing impairments listen to music. Many deaf people enjoy the rhythmic vibrations of music. Music is used as therapy, and people use it for their mental health. You don't have to listen to music to improve your connection with spirit, your mental health, or your physical health.
However, music activates every part of the brain, improving our emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being, and improving our lives in countless ways. You can enjoy music by listening to it, dancing to it, or studying and performing it yourself. Music is for whatever you want it to be. May you enjoy it all the days of your life.
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About the Author: Lady Saoirse has studied magic and lore for most of her life but started walking her own Magical Path after being spiritually reborn in the desert. Today she is a High Priestess for The Temple of the Goddess, she is a psychic advisor and spiritual counselor, she shares her gifts as a Psychic and Content Writer for Mysticsense and SpiritualBlossom, and she writes for PaganPages.Org emag.
