How Music Can Make You A Better Person

Would you like to pop in a CD and have a better quality of life, and even self improvement? Music does three positive things that will improve your personality and outlook.

Music For Motivation

When you are physically active while listening to bouncy music, your movement is more natural and spontaneous. Knowing the emotional and physical effect of music, you can actually experiment and observe what music will be most appropriate in a given situation. So when the occasion occurs just play the music that will lull you to sleep, or invigorate you, or raise your spirit.

Music for the Mind

The right kind of music can spur your brain to higher levels of imagination and ingenuity. Research and studies have shown that it can be used as a tool to train and sharpen the brain. A study involving three year olds were made to determine the effect of music in their intellectual development. The first had no special training in, or exposure to music. The second group was made to study piano and singing.

After a period of eight months, the three year olds were given puzzles and the second group performed better. In the spatial intelligence tests, the second group was even more spectacular, scoring 80% higher than the first group. Earlier, there were unsubstantiated claims that music, especially classical music, will enhance the studying and learning process.

This is an interesting theory that should be pursued further. In the meantime there's no reason not to do your own experimentation. The author Stephen King is known to write books with rock music background, proof that music does play a role in an individuals psychological makeup.

Music as a Brainwave Catalyst

Do you know that music can induce your brain to relax and get sharper? A method of lulling yourself into a meditative state is listening to music rigged to entrain your brainwaves. This is done by beats and pulses buried deep in music that is designed to direct brainwaves to a particular frequency. All you need to do to be in a particular frame of mind is to play the right kind of music. Science? In a way, yes.

Specific mental states can exist or occur in specific brain wave frequencies. This means that when a person feels like walking in the clouds or reflecting in a Yoga position, he is said to exist in the in the "Alpha" range of frequencies. In theory, music beating at 10Hz will produce more brainwaves also at 10Hz frequency thus conditioning the mind to fall into a relaxing Alpha state. Has this been proven?

Yes, it has been found that two products that put some in a calm state unlike any other is music or meditative practice. Further studies ought to validate some of the effects and disprove the more absurd allegations.

You cannot be faulted if you have reservations until more proof comes around to erase your doubts. However, there is no harm in making your own experiments even if only to satisfy your curiosity. Surely there is no harm in the music of Mozart.

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