Classical music affects your state of mind

Studies have shown that bringing classical music to your ears can help you de-stress. This type of mellow music will relax and sooth you to help the mind concentrate on relaxing muscles, such as breathing more deeply and evenly.  

Classical music helps the heart slow down, unlike other lively energetic music which motivates the heart to race faster encouraging movement. This may be the reason why gymnasiums play upbeat music when people are working out.

Of course, the technique of listening to classical music only works if you’re tired and avoid working out to release anxiety.

People need a break to calm down in the most possible relaxing environment. Instead of listening to random jungle sounds like waterfalls, birds whistling and frogs ribitting your night away when trying to fall asleep, classical music will help get your mind off of your busy day.

The case of a 46-year-old man, who suffered from constant seizures throughout his life, was a success story when he decided to start listening to Mozart. Before the Mozart Effect, doctors had suggested that brain surgery was the best way to improve his deteoriating learning and memory skills.

Roger Dobson, contributer to AlterNet website, quoted Dr. John Hughes from the University of Illinois to find Mozart’s music brilliantly complex, but highly organized that normalizes the functioning of the cortex.

To add on to the use of classical music, the Hereford General Hospital in the UK play Mozart flute music in the operating rooms to sooth their patients.

The brain thinks of the best response to a situation and uses emotions as a catalyst to tell the body to react accordingly. Researchers, Amit Etkin and Joy Hirsh, from the Neuron journal say that emotional stimuli such as feeling happy or fearful affect the processing of emotional thoughts, called amygdala.

Try listening to classical music to calm down from your daily stress. By giving 30 minutes a day to Mozart, your heart and mind will feel much more relaxed.

2 responses to “Classical music affects your state of mind

  1. I tend to listen to classical music at night before going to sleep. It seems to relax me more than reading a book.

  2. depending on what Mozart you’ll be listening to for 30min. I dare anybody to relax to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdPrX8IZio I think it’s more accurate to say that any kind of mellow music will relax you than that Mozart per se or random classical will.

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