By: Riya Upveja
Music is a big part of our life everyday and everywhere but did you know that every time we listen to music it leaves a huge psychological impact on our minds?
Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior that tells us why our brain acts in a certain way in a certain situation. It basically analyzes the actions and reactions of the brain to various circumstances and also helps to predict the human behavior and change it accordingly.
It gives us insight into our human experience as according to psychological studies our every action is directly or indirectly influenced by our past experiences. Everything that we have seen or heard so far in our life has an effect on us, sometimes without us even knowing about it, we start to act in a way that has been influenced by some incident that we encountered in the past. Psychology helps us to find the reasons of our actions so that we can try to work on the problems that the are caused by them.
A person who studies psychology builds better connection with others as they understand the behavior they are representing and also knows the way to act and react according to their behavior and the situation.
Psychological approach in today’s life is just as important as any other medical approach when it comes to our mental health as there are no medications that can deal with the complexities of our mind.
To know when and how to make this approach is necessary because one wrong step can worsen the situation and lead to critical mental health disorders. Music has turned out to be a really effective approach to deal with psychological problems.
In the world of psychology music is used as a therapy to reinforce some behavior and modify others in order to deal with various mental health disorders like stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia and many others.
The kind of music that we listen to explains a lot about our behavior and even our personalities. It has the tendency to change our behavior according to the attributes it reflects.
Fast paced music usually brings out our energy and cheers up our mood whereas slow paced music helps to calm us down and relax, which is the reason for many psychological doctors that use music as a healing therapy provide their patients with soft music to lower down their heart rate and help them to normalize their breathing and calm down their brain from thinking too much.
Listening to music, singing, dancing or playing an instrument can help you sleep better and also build up the mind’s recollection power which results in better performance at our other day to day tasks.
According to Psychological doctors People who used music as a therapy turned out to recover much faster from the mental health problems than the people who did not go for this approach.
