Music Therapy For Patients By Kathi J. Kemper

Stress can become life threatening and cause many more complications. It has been proven that music can reduce pain and suffering while improving someone’s lifestyle at the same time. The result of listening to music as a stress release helps people enormously. According to article Consider the benefits of music therapy for your patients by Kathi J. Kemper, music helps our body and mind relax: “With new age music, there was a significant increase in a sense of relaxation and a reduction in hostility, mental clarity, vigor, and tension. After listening to designer music, subjects reported significantly more relaxation, mental clarity, vigor, and compassion, and significantly decreased hostility, sadness, fatigue, and tension” (p.3). Classical

Music is a great distraction from the real world and can help in exploring what is really felt inside and allowing all the emotion to come out in a calming way. Slow and classical music have been used as forms of meditation to prevent mind wandering. All music taste varies between each person, so it is up to one to decide what kind of music is suitable for each mood. Slow and classical music are not the only types of music that work as a stress relief for everyone. Sometimes singing or shouting a fast-paced upbeat song is a great form of stress release, and it relieves a lot of tension. Karaoke has been proven to be very beneficial for some. Music is dated back to the beginning of time. With so many different forms available, every person can usually find what is intended for that particular moment. Music therapy has been used even with veterans injured in wars that continue to suffer from emotional and physical trauma. It has been agreed upon that music is an aid to help one feel good. Choosing music that helps leave a refreshed and calm feeling will make you feel as if the world is at

Listening to music releases endorphins in the brain. Endorphins give the body a heightened feeling of excitement making you feel “pumped up”. This will then help to boost your mood, dulling any pain, make you feel more alert, and less tired. Music typically is an enhancer over a distracter when it comes to working out. For many people music is a way to take your mind off certain activities in the gym so that they don’t tend to think about what they’re doing as much. Therefore, a person won’t feel the exercise to be as intense as it actually is because they would be distracted by the music. Also, the music helps to block out any noise around a person and can help them to stay more focused on their activity and they will continue to stay motivated. There can be many distractions in a gym so having music to listen to can help keep your mind in the right place and make time go much faster than you would expect. Music can also help to enhance your workout at the same time in numerous ways. For example, imagine you are enduring an intense workout that requires a certain type of movement. According to The beat goes on: the effects of music on exercise: a review of the research on the ergogenic and psychophysical impact of music in an exercise program by Nicole M. Harmon and Len Kravitz, music can help to synchronize with the beat at the right tempo, which