Music Makes You Healthy

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Music Makes You Healthy Mark Lawrence ITT Technical Institute Survey of the Sciences GE150 Mrs. Mavar Abstract The objective to this paper is to discuss the effects that music has on one’s health and how music can actually keep a person healthy in a way that is backed by scientific information. For this assignment, we are looking at several sources on the topic and noting how the sources vary in content, structure, and vocabulary. Music Makes You Healthy For many of centuries, music has helped heal people both physically and emotionally. Certain cultures have believed that music has certain healing powers and effects on the human body. This goes back to the days of ancient Egyptian and Chinese culture and progresses into recent studies done by leading researchers in today’s health fields. And there are different ways that music has an effect on the human body. Some forms of music get us pumped up and excite us into physical movement, while others may slow us down into a mode of calming relaxation. The first article I reviewed had an elaborate explanation on scientific findings on how music can get us moving to be in a better physical shape and motivate us to reach the suggested amount of physical activity that every individual should reach to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This article was entitled “the theory of music, mood, and movement to improve health outcomes” (Murrock & Higgins 2009) In this article it is stated that the scientific method was used by coming up with a theory on how the music reaches individuals and how it can result in psychological and physiological responses from individuals who need to reach a healthier lifestyle. The effects were studied on how different forms of music with different rhythm, melodies, pitches, harmonies, and intervals had an effect on the mind to change moods and social interaction, as well as
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