The influence of music on people is wonderful. Music is a universal language capable of provoking unique emotions and sensations.
Sometimes you hear someone sing in an unknown language, but you can still feel what they want to convey, even if you don’t understand exactly what the lyrics say. What you do know is that the song expresses something cheerful, sad or dramatic. Etc.
- Music is like chocolate.
- Almost everyone loves it.
- This has been happening since time immemorial: if there is culture.
- There is also room for those rhythmic sounds that convey feelings.
- In all times and in all civilizations there is this particular form.
- Expression.
- So rich in styles.
“When I’m afraid, I keep my head upright and whistle a cheerful air, so no one realizes I’m afraid?/ And every time that happens, does the joy of the melody convince me that I am not afraid?. ? Rogers and Hammerstein?
Without realizing it, we sometimes turn to music in search of a container for the feelings that dominate us, a place where they can spread freely without harming anyone, other times we come together to dance and make sure that the musical rhythms set the pace. for the party. We also look for melodies to calm down, to study or to work. But what really is the influence of music on our minds?
This experiment was conducted at the Faculty of Psychology of BUAP, Mexico, was led by Professor Roberto Valderrama Hernández and his goal was to know what the effect of one was?Strong? About anxiety. “Strong melody” means that it has an irregular rhythm, marked, fast and heard at a very high volume. This is essentially “heavy metal” or “heavy metal”.
For this study, 137 individuals were selected. Of these, 31 were men and 106 women with an average age of 20 years and all were psychology students, initially tested to measure their anxiety level, then listened to heavy metal extracts of 5 minutes each, in total each respondent listened to the music for 47 minutes.
The researcher observed that during listening intervals participants were more nervous, agitated and expressed this agitation constantly changing position and with random hand and foot movements.
Professor Valderrama concluded that this type of exciting music increased the level of anxiety, the explanation is that this type of rhythm intensely stimulates the sympathetic system and this increases physical and psychological tension, if this tension is not released with movements such as dancing or jumping, the energy accumulates and results in typical symptoms of anxiety.
The fact that music takes note of energy is not a problem. The problem arises when this energy cannot be released by physical activity. In that sense, he? Strong music is ideal for situations that require strong or competitive behavior.
In addition, musical notes have the ability to relax: we can listen to musical genres that have slower and slower rhythms. Some pieces of classical, instrumental or soft pop music help reassure us. They’re widely used in radiation therapy rooms or aggressive, medical treatments to relax patients.
Science has succeeded in establishing that musical rhythms stimulate different areas of the brain; In fact, research from the University of Florida suggests that musical rhythms promote more brain activation than any other known stimulus. The main positive effects are:
The influence of music affects all living things. Good music has been shown to strengthen our immune system and improve health. Cows give more milk when Mozart’s sonatas are put on “background music,” and even plants bloom more with soft music. The key is to find the pace that can help us with each specific situation, so that we can take advantage of it in our favor.