Next time you lock yourself in your room to get away from your wife/husband and/or kids and blast your favorite music. Tell them you are just trying to get healthy. Not only can listening to music relax you but it appears to really good for your health. Sadly, it works on your kids too. So when they just have to here some “music” in the car and it just so happens to be some Scream-O band, although it’s killing you slowly, it’s making your kids calm down. Check out 3 ways that listening to your favorite music is good for you after the jump!
#1.) It Lowers Your Blood Pressure. Researchers in Italy found that listening to music and breathing slowly for 30 minutes a day lowered people’s systolic blood pressure (–the top number) by an average of four points.
#2.) It Makes You Less Tense. This kind of goes hand-in-hand with your blood pressure, but a separate study found that 30 minutes of music a day lowers your level of the stress hormone cortisol better than just sitting in total silence. And researchers in Seattle found that deep breathing while listening to your favorite music reduces anxiety just as much as a massage.
#3.) It Helps You Deal with Pain. This is kind of messed, but researchers at the University of Utah gave 143 volunteers ELECTRIC SHOCKS while they listened to music. They found that tuning into a melody made sharp pain easier to take.
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