Music Therapy
Music has also been proven to impact us physically as well. Many doctors and psychiatrists recommend music as a therapeutic way of relaxing, and escaping the world and the stress we receive from it. In the book The Power of Sound by Joshua Leeds he talks about how music can heal our broken spirits through its neurological healing powers. There are three types of healing that it does that he lists.
1. Music is nonverbal so can move through the brain's auditory cortex directly to the center of the limbic system. This system governs emotional experiences and basic metabolic responses such as body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate. It can help create new neuropathways in the brain, as well.
2. Music can activate the flow of stored memory and imagined material across the corpus collosum (bridge between left and right hemispheres of the brain) helping the two work in harmony. This stimulates the immune system.
3. Music can excite peptides in the brain and stimulate the production of endorphins, which are natural opiates secreted by the hypothalamus, which produces a feeling of natural euphoria, shifting mood and emotion.(Leeds)
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Just by retreating away and listening to music our kids are stimulating there minds as well as improving there moods and emotions. If parents are doing there part and filtering what the lyrics are in the songs their kids are listening to then there will be a very positive shift in emotions in our children.
