While listening to music can bring multiple mental and physical health benefits, creating it can be therapy, too.Singing in a choir has many mood-boosting and mental health benefits. Of course, playing a musical instrument has advantages for both your mental wellbeing andphysical brain health. I...
Music is extremely beneficial in many different ways and plays an important role in providing a space where we can all go to in order to process people, events, and express our thoughts without having to utter a word, which makes it an effective way to help maintain our mental health. In...
Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Michael Crawford, a psychiatrist, explains why music therapy helps people suffering with depression. ‘Listening and creating music allows individuals to express themselves in non-verbal ways. The interplay of melody, harmony, and rhythm stimulates the ...
The Amazing Way Music Therapy Helps Alzheimer’s Patients One of the most remarkable successes of music therapy is the impact it has on the lives of Alzheimer’s patients. Advanced Alzheimer’s patients lose their ability to have interactive conversations with others and eventually stop speaking com...
Kaja is a 30 year old music therapist who since graduating from the University of Bergen has been working to improve young people´s mental health and wellbeing through various music activities. In 2019, She did an internship with the music therapy organisation MusicWorks in Cape Town and was...
Natural sounds, like birdsong, can also be combined with binaural beat music or used to aid meditation on their own. You may find that listening to the sound of the dawn chorus helps you relax and meditate, or that the deep rumbling sound of thunder combined with the sound of heavy rainfa...
Meditation helps you to achieve an enhanced state of serenity, awareness, and focused attention and thus helps to improve your mental health.
4. Stress Reduction and Mental Well-being The calming properties of water have a profound impact on mental health. Hydrotherapy sessions promote relaxation by reducing cortisol levels—the hormone associated with stress. Warm baths, floatation therapy, and gentle water exercises help to lower anxiety...
And it too is a meditative movement practice that can improve your mental and physical health. (Qi means “breath” or “energy”; “gong” translates as “exercise” or “skill.”) In recent years, Qigong therapy has attracted the attention of modern medicine and science and is now widely...
Music can have a powerful effect on the health of our minds and bodies.Music therapyis a formal way to use the healing power of music, but you can also listen to music torelieve stresson your own. One of the benefits of using music to cope with stress is that it’s easy to fit in...