How Music Affects The Brain And Your Emotions
Channel: Practical Inspiration - Personal Growth & Success
Date: 13/05/2020

In this video on Practical Inspiration we look at how music affects the brain and your emotions and its role in your psychology. You might have wondered how music affects the brain, and here you'll learn the influence it has, whether classical music or others. With this, you'll understand why you should listen to music and the reasons why you should listen to music.

So learn what music does to the brain and how music affects your emotions. Specifically, many people wonder what does classical music do to the brain and want to learn why you need to listen to music. So learn the reasons why you need to listen to music and music benefits.

By understanding how music affects the brain, and the relationship between music and your brain (i.e. music neuroscience), you'll soon understand the influence of music.

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Below is a summary of the video:

1. Music Increases Happiness
- Listening to your favourite music can help you feel a natural boost in your mood, helping you feel happier in that specific moment in time
- You don't have to listen for too long either, as just 15 minutes of listening to music can cause the desired response in the brain to help you feel better
- This is because the act of listening to music, which is pleasurable, releases dopamine in the brain, making you feel happier and more excited when you do
- So if you ever want a small pick me up, just put on a track you like and enjoy the moment

2. Music Improves Health
- Music directly impacts the hormonal balance in your body, and so can have significant impact on your health and wellbeing on a day to day basis
- For example, listening to music can decrease levels of cortisol in the body, meaning it significantly lowers the level of stress you feel and your overall wellbeing
- Stress is a big factor in illnesses and disease that we face in our body, meaning if you can reduce stress in your life, you're more likely to stay healthy
- Studies have shown that people playing instruments or who sang had boosted immune systems compared to the people who were passively listening, though both showed improvements

3. Improves Learning and Memory
- Research has found that listening to music can help you learn and recall information more efficiently, although it depends on the degree to which you like the music
- For example, a study showed that musicians actually learned better with neutral music, but tested better with music that they liked
- while non-musicians learned better with positive music but tested better with neutral music, thus flipping the benefits of music in various circumstances
- However, having non-distracting music can aid your learning and memory, helping you perform better in different circumstances depending on what you are doing
 
4. Reduce Depression
- As we've already established, music has a direct effect on our hormones and therefore can even be considered a natural antidepressant
- This is as we listen to music, it releases serotonin and dopamine to help you feel happier, while it can also evoke feelings of euphoria as you listen
- With more than 350 million people worldwide sufferring from depression and 90% of them also experiencing insomnia, music can significantly help on both accounts
- However, what you listen to is key, as a study found that while classical and relaxing music increased positive moods, techno and heavy metal made people feel worse

5. Increase IQ and Performance
- Research has found that listening and more specifically, learning to play music can have a great benefit on a young child's IQ and academic performance
- The study looked at a group of 6 year olds who took keyboard and vocal lessons for 36 weeks, whereby the results showed increases in IQ and improvements in educational tests
- Interestingly, it was the singing group that showed the most improvement, going to show that you don't need any additional resources to improve
- Therefore, listen to music, and sing along if you can, doing so can have amazing benefits to you in your life

Music provided by HearWeGo
Artist: Aurora B.Polaris
Title: The Vision of Light
Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BU5nTgrhzEo