Tag: mindfulness
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How Music Can Regulate Stress and the Autonomic Nervous System
In the last article, I touched on music and how it affects your emotions – quite literally in your brain. But what about the other parts of the body? How can music help to regulate stress and your Nervous System? In a systematic search done by various scientists(link here), there were many studies uncovered relating…
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What Actually Happens in your Brain when you Listen to Music? Here’s What Research Shows
Music – a universal language. Something that can fight across many modern barriers. But how does your brain actually process music? And how can that be useful in medicine? This article is fairly technical – while there is much explanation, as I process these studies, I suggest looking up the basic brain structures and what…
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Stress vs. Your Brain: Can Music Defend You? Here’s What the Research Shows
Stress in our everyday lives is a very prominent thing—perhaps more prominent than ever before. But can music help reduce the effects of stress on your brain? Effective stress recovery is important to prevent long-term consequences of stress. Listening to music could be beneficial for stress reduction. In a meta-analysis (read the study here!), 14…
