When someone seeks to reach peace of mind, music is less often recalled than antidepressants and psychotherapy. Meanwhile, the right melody can change your emotional state in a few minutes. In the 1980s, the 7-Eleven supermarket chain in Canada came up with the solution to kick youth away from their parking: they simply turned on classical or easy-listening music. The teenagers could not stand the “old-fashioned” melodies and left. In this article, you will find tips on how to use music to change your emotional state.

How to Use Music in Everyday Life

Today, psychotherapists create personalized playlists for sessions with patients, and surgeons know that jazz promotes recovery from surgery. There is no difference if you listen to music on your TBI Pro headset or at a live concert, it may equally cause benefit or harm. You can use basic music therapy techniques yourself to adjust your mood here and now.

1) Pain release

Glasgow Caledonian University researchers proved that the right music can reduce physical pain. Moreover, it is not always relaxing melodies, but the music that a person is used to listening to before the pain appears. In other words, if you prefer hardcore rap, your therapy should include it, and not the sounds of nature and melodies for meditation. A participant in this experiment, a Prodigy fan, chose the “Firestarter” track and was able to stay in cold water five times longer than usual, despite muscle cramps. This fact also explains why running long distances or training is easier if you practice with your favorite songs, even if it is not very energetic.

2) Relaxation

According to researchers from the Hungarian Institute for Behavioral Sciences, music promotes relaxation, slows breathing and heart rate. In their experiment, they proved that if you listen to classical sounds 45 minutes before bedtime, you will fall asleep faster. The melodies in this case should not excite you, but rather be an auxiliary background. The optimal frequency is 60 beats per minute. The composer, scientist, and author of the book “Why We Love Music” advises falling asleep with the melodies of lute players.

3) Anger release

Extreme music is a healthy way to release anger. This conclusion was made by scientists from the University of Queensland. While heavy metal, hardcore punk, screamo, and growling can be associated with anarchy, crime and satanism, in terms of mental hygiene, these musical styles are useful when a person is feeling angry. To ignore the anger is not only pointless but also harmful. This is where extreme music comes to the rescue, which “experiences” anger, reducing internal emotional stress.

In Conclusion

Except for the above-mentioned examples, music is widely used in hospitals to treat patients with Alzheimer’s, public spaces to stimulate the customer’s activity, and offices to increase the productivity of employees. All this makes it a universal tool to adjust human mood and health.

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