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Master therapy has gained wide popularity, recently, as music and its elements are used to improve mental health and relieve stress.
Benefits of listening to music
According to the Times Now News website, music therapy is a complementary sensory treatment, and is used in various cultures for thousands of years, as it includes listening to, writing, or playing music, and is the most common form of music therapy is the active listening to it, and patients can wear headphones or listen via loudspeakers.
In addition, they can choose their favorite music or listen to a described play list by a music processor, from classic music to nature sounds, from countryside music to rock and roll music, music contributes to some distinctive physical effects, including reducing anxiety, tension, and improving mood.
When combining music therapy, with traditional treatments such as medications and psychotherapy, symptoms of depression improve more effectively than traditional treatments alone, it reduces the levels of anxiety and improves the daily performance of people with depression, and music activates multiple brain areas, including the coffee system, responsible for treating emotions and memories, which explains its ability to evoke memories of memories Live, improving awareness and quality of life, especially among people with dementia.
Various music affects the body in different ways, as rapid rhythms stimulate the body, while it enhances slow music or relaxation, and listening to music and singing reduces the levels of cortisol, which is the hormone tension, and dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure.
The interactive nature of music therapy can facilitate, as patients can play musical instruments or write song lyrics with their therapist, self -expression and community communication, Kenneth Emegen of the University and New York Steinhards shed light on the transformational experience of composing music with others, and music therapy is a treatment tool for patients who suffer from critical conditions, as it gives them Feeling independence.
