How Does Music Affect You:
When you listen to rhythm your heart starts to sync with it. Some of the music can be sad and happy at the same time. When your heart beats fast you could be frightened or excited. While a dreamy rhythm with occasional upbeats can be a sign of love or joy. Tones are just as important as rhythm. A “major key” music piece will usually signal cheerful communication to our brain, while “minor key” pieces are sadder. This all has a very strong effect on our brain, which makes our mind actually feel what’s being communicated to us.
Music can affect your mood in many different ways. There’s a rhythm in the song when we listen to music. When we listen to music our heart begins to sync with the music. A slow heartbeat with a diastolic pressure our brain that sad or depressing is occurring. The act of listening to music can benefit our health. Even sad music brings most listeners pleasure and comfort, according to recent research from Durham University in the United Kingdom and the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.
The research involved three surveys of more than 2,400 people in the United Kingdom and Finland, focusing on the emotions and memorable experiences associated with listening to sad songs. People express different emotions when they listen to music such as smiling, laughing or crying. Listening to music is quite common in most people’s daily lives. Music can be a therapy which seems surprising that music can help people cope with physical pain, but research has shown a clear link. Music can evoke emotion, help regain memories, stimulate new neural connections, and active attention.
Music makes us feel good. Positive feelings can broaden our mindset in a way are beneficial to health and creative thinking. This explains why potential mental health benefits of music. Our internal rhythms, such as our heart rate, speed up or slow down to become one with the music. We float and move with the music. For instance, dancing is moving overtly or covertly in coordination with the music.
Being in sync with music is a source of pleasure. This may explain our strong pleasurable urge to move our body in synchronous with the beat. Similarly, soothing baby lullabies are used to calm infants and help them fall asleep. (Their breathing rhythm becomes synchronized with their musical rhythm.) The concept is also used to increase excitement and tension in viewers by the music in movies.
We tend to “catch” the emotions of others when perceiving their emotional expressions and this process assists us in understanding the feelings of others. For example, when you have a casual conversation with someone who is anxious, you tend to walk away from the encounter feeling somewhat anxious yourself. Similarly, when people attend concerts, their emotions are in part influenced by the emotions of other people present.
The most obvious way in which musical events can produce contagion effects is through the non-verbal expressions (face, body) shown by performers. This suggests that a musician cannot move others unless he or she too is moved. A possible explanation of emotional contagion is so-called mirror neurons. Mirror neurons connect us to each other through a brain mechanism designed to facilitate imitation and mimicry.
When you listen to music your heart sinks with the music. Some of the music can make your mood change while listening to music. Your heart beats fast when you listen to a rhythm and then your heart starts to sync with it. While a dreamy rhythm with occasional upbeats can be a sign of love or joy. Tones are just as important as rhythm.
