The Power of Music

While listening to music, some may feel tranquil, some might draw peace from chaos and

some might be able to amplify the sentiment they are going through presently. Music is the part

of my life where I realize the petite things, the missing pieces to my soul. I have always found

music to be my shoulder to cry on, a vent to release my anger and a friend to rejoice with.

The different health benefits of music amaze us humans. Let me start right from a developing

baby in a mother’s womb. When music is played outside the womb, the baby listens to it.

Scientists factually say that this music stimulates the baby’s brain and assists with growth of

brain structures. Music also helps to maintain confidence and relaxation when it is born.

Moreover it can remember this music when it is four months old after being born. This simply

shows us how riveting music’s outcomes can get in the field of health.

I am pretty sure everyone agrees to this statement. There has always been a patch where music

was the only thing that thrived in making me progress. It has made me overcome desolation and

defeat and has given me the courage to still hope for the best even when despair ruled the

situation. Research says that listening to music releases dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is also

known as a “feel-good” neurotransmitter. It is proven that music shrinks stress and it is advised

that people play music while doing their daily chores to calm them down. I follow the same in

my daily life; it lifts my mood and lets me finish my job with ease. I would like to explain this

with the example of my parents. My mother always says that she loathes cooking even though I

have never tasted food better than hers till date. I observed that she always plays music that she

used to listen to when she was my age and that is how her mood is boosted while cooking.

Similarly my father plays party or rock music while driving. This has an enlightening upshot on

all of our experiences in the car! We always enjoy a car ride with some cheerful music.

I would like to explain this with a personal experience. Few years ago, my ten year old cousin

had come home. It was a chill rainy evening and I played some rock music. That music was full

of electrifying guitar notes and drums. When he listened to it, he went rambunctious! He was so

gloomy but the moment the song was played he sprang out of the sofa and started jumping

around and dancing. After some time the next song started playing which was more soothing

and less thrilling. He sat down and within few minutes he zoned out! When I asked him if he

was awake he did not respond as he fell asleep. This indicated the degree of change music can

bring in a person’s mood.

There are times when people like my other cousin feel crestfallen. To them, soothing music did

not do the therapy most of the time. When they listened to music that complemented their

situation they felt better. People feel awakening that is out of the world when they start to relate

to songs, be it music or words.

There are numerous testimonies of Alzheimer’s patients who have remembered because of

music. When music from their youth or music that they used to listen to was played, they

started reminiscing events from their life. This miracle of music has changed lives and reignited

hope in families.

The exact reading of history that leads us to the first time music was ever played or invented is

around forty thousand years in Europe during the Neanderthal Age. Since then human-like

creatures developed into today’s strain of mankind and from there, branches of population

spread out into fresh parts of the world owning unique music. These populations multiplied into

several generations that reach out into our world today with evolved music that we all listen to.

Music is that pure energy that unites people in many cases, like national anthems. When one

travels to a distant place or country that has no hint of his culture of origin, he can revitalize

himself only through the music he has from his land. That music does implausible wonders as it

brings back gazillions of memories and smells of his motherland. Music sways its magic wand

and turns his miserable state of mind into one with great spirits and aspirations! This is the

power of music.

Music has always stirred people to do things they thought they could not. It has simplified the

living of countless people whether it is related to their health or mood. They say music is like

chocolate, almost everyone likes it. I will forever be grateful for the invention of music as it has

continually kept us human beings going with our lives no matter what the obstacle.

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

– Alphonse de Lamartine