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How To Treat Yourself With Meditation Music And Relaxation?
Meditation, music and relaxation are the keys to attaining the power which can heal your body from various psychological and emotional imbalances. There are different relaxation techniques to experiment with and meditation music is one such technique, designed to treat those suffering from stress or fatigue.
Meditation music is a kind of music used for supporting the whole purpose of meditation and reviving the mind sensations. Relaxation is a way of refreshing the mind, body and soul by doing something peaceful, tranquil and enjoyable. Basic purpose of any relaxation technique is simply to take mind away from its stress and to pump up the weary body. Meditation music and relaxation have a synchronization that works best for bringing the tired and exhausted mind out of its gloominess.
Meditation has been a powerful source of relaxation and one of the most popular relaxation techniques. What meditation does is it treats the body of its emotional instability, adds to the health and makes a person strong in spiritual, physical and psychological way. To find out how meditation music and relaxation make a great pair for treating you, you need to know about the working and benefits of meditation and music individually.
For years people have been meditating, while it started as a way to way to become spiritually more active and to attain a way to connect to the inner self, today meditation has become a great way to attain a control over both the mind and body. With meditation having a power or ability to capture the mind, to motivate it and to revitalized it, people across the world have adopted meditation as a way to get over their stress, day long tiredness, to ease their anxiety and to balance their emotions. Similarly, music serves the same purpose of treating or heeling the inner disturbances of a person.
Have you ever tried listening to a favorite song of yours when feeling sadness, tiredness or irritability? Music acts has heeling properties that makes a person feel calm, composed and relaxed. The very reason makes music equally powerful and when combined or synchronized together, they prove out to be perfect way to relax and to treat a person in may areas.
Meditation music works by soothing the turbulence inside a mind using soft or inspirational sounds or rhymes that are bound to touch the emotions. If the question is why meditation and music together, then answer is simple meditation music works deeper and it has been proven that meditating with words or sound generates or create a powerful and emotionally strong environment or atmosphere. Meditation music also act as a tool that guides a person for attaining the calmness, for relaxing the mind and body when meditation and for helping them in focusing when meditating.
The basic principle on which meditation music and relaxation works is to push a person in to deeper sense of calmness, relaxation and to make him or her revive and retain the right frame of mind and body, thus the best way to treat your depression or exhaustion is to choose a good music track and meditate by playing it in background. Another reason why this new avatar of meditation has become so popular and is so amazing is the fact that, music without a doubt is a universal language and caters to need of all kind of people. From classical, western, jazz to instrumental there are hundreds of music categories one can choose from based on their preferences and begin with a meditation.
Some of health benefits of meditation music and relaxation include good and sound sleep, lower cholesterol, strengthening of immune system and more. Things you can work on or treat using the combination of meditation music and relaxation are anxiety, depression, fear, emotional imbalance, anger, mood change, mind and body fatigue, headache, sleeplessness, irritability, breathlessness and lack of concentration or inability to think.
The biggest misconception about meditation, music and relaxation is that one needs to be spiritual and should know mediation postures. But the truth is that meditation music is a simple way to relax and all it requires you to do is close your eyes (lie down or sit straight), breathe easy and concentrate on the music being played in the background. To practice meditation music you need not be a guru or spiritual guide or a yoga expert, as meditation music is all about exercising ones mind to refresh it, revitalize it and strengthen it.
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Music & Emotions: Can Music Really Make You a Happier Person?
How many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?
Music affects us all. But only in recent times have scientists sought to explain and quantify the way music impacts us at an emotional level. Researching the links between melody and the mind indicates that listening to and playing music actually can alter how our brains, and therefore our bodies, function.
It seems that the healing power of music, over body and spirit, is only just starting to be understood, even though music therapy is not new. For many years therapists have been advocating the use of music in both listening and study for the reduction of anxiety and stress, the relief of pain. And music has also been recommended as an aid for positive change in mood and emotional states.
Michael DeBakey, who in 1966 became the first surgeon to successfully implant an artificial heart, is on record saying: "Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients."
Doctors now believe using music therapy in hospitals and nursing homes not only makes people feel better, but also makes them heal faster. And across the nation, medical experts are beginning to apply the new revelations about music's impact on the brain to treating patients.
In one study, researcher Michael Thaut and his team detailed how victims of stroke, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease who worked to music took bigger, more balanced strides than those whose therapy had no accompaniment.
Other researchers have found the sound of drums may influence how bodies work. Quoted in a 2001 article in USA Today, Suzanne Hasner, chairwoman of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, says even those with dementia or head injuries retain musical ability.
The article reported results of an experiment in which researchers from the Mind-Body Wellness Center in Meadville, Pa., tracked 111 cancer patients who played drums for 30 minutes a day. They found strengthened immune systems and increased levels of cancer-fighting cells in many of the patients.
"Deep in our long-term memory is this rehearsed music," Hasner says. "It is processed in the emotional part of the brain, the amygdala. Here is where you remember the music played at your wedding, the music of your first love, that first dance. Such things can still be remembered even in people with progressive diseases. It can be a window, a way to reach them."
The American Music Therapy Organization claims music therapy may allow for "emotional intimacy with families and caregivers, relaxation for the entire family, and meaningful time spent together in a positive, creative way".
Scientists have been making progress in its exploration into why music should have this effect. In 2001 Dr. Anne Blood and Robert Zatorre of McGill University in Montreal, used positron emission tomography, or PET scans, to find out if particular brain structures were stimulated by music.
In their study, Blood and Zatorre asked 10 musicians, five men and five women, to choose stirring music. The subjects were then given PET scans as they listened to four types of audio stimuli – the selected music, other music, general noise or silence. Each sequence was repeated three times in random order.
Blood said when the subjects heard the music that gave them "chills," the PET scans detected activity in the portions of the brain that are also stimulated by food and sex.
Just why humans developed such a biologically based appreciation of music is still not clear. The appreciation of food and the drive for sex evolved to help the survival of the species, but "music did not develop strictly for survival purposes," Blood told Associated Press at the time.
She also believes that because music activates the parts of the brain that make us happy, this suggests it can benefit our physical and mental well being.
This is good news for patients undergoing surgical operations who experience anxiety in anticipation of those procedures.
Polish researcher, Zbigniew Kucharski, at the Medical Academy of Warsaw, studied the effect of acoustic therapy for fear management in dental patients. During the period from October 2001 to May 2002, 38 dental patients aged between 16 and 60 years were observed. The patients received variations of acoustic therapy, a practice where music is received via headphones and also vibrators.
Dr Kucharski discovered the negative feelings decreased five-fold for patients who received 30 minutes of acoustic therapy both before and after their dental procedure. For the group that heard and felt music only prior to the operation, the fearful feelings reduced by a factor of 1.6 only.
For the last group (the control), which received acoustic therapy only during the operation, there was no change in the degree of fear felt.
A 1992 study identified music listening and relaxation instruction as an effective way to reduce pain and anxiety in women undergoing painful gynecological procedures. And other studies have proved music can reduce other 'negative' human emotions like fear, distress and depression.
Sheri Robb and a team of researchers published a report in the Journal of Music Therapy in 1992, outlining their findings that music assisted relaxation procedures (music listening, deep breathing and other exercises) effectively reduced anxiety in pediatric surgical patients on a burn unit.
"Music," says Esther Mok in the AORN Journal in February 2003, "is an easily administered, non-threatening, non-invasive, and inexpensive tool to calm preoperative anxiety."
So far, according to the same report, researchers cannot be certain why music has a calming affect on many medical patients. One school of thought believes music may reduce stress because it can help patients to relax and also lower blood pressure. Another researcher claims music allows the body's vibrations to synchronize with the rhythms of those around it. For instance, if an anxious patient with a racing heartbeat listens to slow music, his heart rate will slow down and synchronize with the music's rhythm.
Such results are still something of a mystery. The incredible ability that music has to affect and manipulate emotions and the brain is undeniable, and yet still largely inexplicable.
Aside from brain activity, the affect of music on hormone levels in the human body can also be quantified, and there is definite evidence that music can lower levels of cortisol in the body (associated with arousal and stress), and raise levels of melatonin (which can induce sleep). It can also precipitate the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkiller.
But how does music succeed in prompting emotions within us? And why are these emotions often so powerful? The simple answer is that no one knows yet. So far we can quantify some of the emotional responses caused by music, but we cannot yet explain them. But that's OK. I don't have to understand electricity to benefit from light when I switch on a lamp when I come into a room, and I don't have to understand why music can make me feel better emotionally. It just does – our Creator made us that way.
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