As a tool to improve sleep, soothing, relaxing music can: Slow breathing, Lower heart rate, Lower blood pressure, Quiet the nervous system, Ease muscle tension, Reduce stress and anxiety, Trigger the release of sleep-friendly hormones, including serotonin and oxytocin, Reduce sleep-stifling hormones like cortisol.
Improves our mood: Different songs alter our hormone levels and body chemistry. If you listen to pleasant music, it can increase serotonin levels and make you happy.
Boosts problem-solving ability: Listening to music can activate both, the right and left side, of our brain. Engaging both sides simultaneously improves your problem-solving ability.
Improves memory: Music triggers the hippocampus, the part of your brain that is involved in memory storage. This is why songs from the past make you remember memories. It is also the reason why most of us feel nostalgic when we hear a song from different times in our life.
Relaxation: Music is relaxing, especially if the song matches our resting heart rate closely. When that’s the case, the song soothes us on a biological level.
Boost Sleep Quantity and Quality: If you choose songs which relax you, you fall asleep faster and get better rest. It’s like a lullaby.
Fall Asleep Faster: By the end of the day, our minds are full of a million thoughts, all which take up space in our heads and keep us awake. Putting on some background music can give our brains something else to focus on and take our minds off our daily distractions. Try listening to music when you lie down to sleep at the end of a tough day. You will probably fall asleep much faster!
Enjoy!
music credit to: Liborio Conti – Tranquil Meditation
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