Music has a remarkable influence on people's mental state and mood. Bad concerts cause diseases, while good music can cure diseases. A psychologist abroad made a comparative study of 208 members of different symphony orchestras. After analysis, it is found that most members of the orchestra who mainly play classical music are emotionally stable, happy and healthy, and rarely get sick. However, among the members who mainly play modern music, more than 70% are neurotic, more than 60% are easily excited and angry, and more than 22% are depressed. Some people often suffer from insomnia, headaches and even some diseases. Others made a survey of some music lovers and found that people get along very harmoniously in families that often enjoy classical music. People who often enjoy romantic music are cheerful and active, while family members who are keen on noisy modern music often quarrel with each other. Obviously, in our daily life, music can affect our physical and mental health at any time. Modern scientific research and many experiments have proved that music has a certain influence on the physiological function and pathological changes of human body, which mainly has two functions, namely, body vibration and psychological effect. According to research, the activity of human organs has a certain vibration frequency. When people are sick, the vibration frequency of organs will change, and music can make the sick organs vibrate through the vibration of its own sound waves, so that the frequency of the sick organs can be corrected and coordinated, and finally the purpose of treating diseases can be achieved. This is physical vibration. Psychological effect refers to melodious music and melodious melody that make people condense in the music, eliminate distracting thoughts, make people feel calm, and make people breathe slowly, relax the whole body and relax the neurocerebral cortex, thus regulating the body and mind, which has obvious effects of lowering blood pressure, relieving pain and calming down. Cheerful, cheerful and high-spirited music can improve the excitability of brain nerve cells, improve people's mood, promote blood circulation, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestive gland secretion, and strengthen metabolism, which is not only conducive to longevity and health care, but also can treat some diseases. Someone has tried to make people who are depressed, irritable, headache and chest tightness listen to calm, soothing and soothing music; For people who are in a trance, uneasy, dizzy, sentimental, insomnia and forgetful, let them listen to happy and lively music, and patients have achieved satisfactory results after enjoying it. However, nervous and horrible music, grotesque tones, harsh harmony and crazy rhythm have a strong stimulating effect on people's nervous system, and can even destroy the normal movement law of the heart and blood vessels, leading to emotional anxiety, irritability, nausea and vomiting, headache and high blood pressure, etc., and can also induce diseases of the heart and blood vessels. In fact, there are many such strange tunes in some western modern music, which are not music worthy of appreciation at all, but a kind of high-decibel noise, which is extremely harmful to human health. A doctor in Britain prescribed a strange prescription for a patient with neuropathic stomachache, that is, let the patient listen to German Bach's music records three times a day, all after meals, and the patient really recovered. A doctor in Rome used not only anesthetics, but also hypnotic music when operating on patients, which played a very good calming role. It is a very helpful method to increase the facilities for playing music in the operating room. Doctors in obstetrics and gynecology let the parturient listen to some beautiful music to achieve the effect of analgesia and induced labor. In addition, when some hypertensive patients are agitated, their blood pressure will drop and remain stable every time they listen to lyrical, calm or sweet music. The appeal of music can really be said to be great. Solemn melody gives people rich imagination, melodious melody can make people have a pleasant rest, and soothing melody can completely eliminate fatigue. Nature has certain laws and rhythms, so do human beings, such as breathing, pulse, eating three meals a day, getting up early and going to bed late, and so on. The rhythm of music is abstract from the rhythm of human life. Scholars in the former Soviet Union found through experiments that the music rhythm of about 60 beats per minute vibrates with the normal physiological rhythm of healthy people's pulse of about 60 beats per minute, which is easy to maintain physical and mental balance, and this frequency is the best rhythm for physical and mental recuperation; The rhythm less than 60 beats will slow down the physiological rhythm of the human body, such as Mozart's lullaby and Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. A rhythm faster than 60 beats per minute can stimulate the human body and relieve people's depression. If a person is in a state of emotional tension for a long time, it will weaken the body's resistance and easily suffer from hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, neurosis, diabetes, ulcers, asthma, colitis, migraine and periodic headaches, and even induce cancer. According to the statistics of modern medical data, diseases caused by emotions or psychological aspects account for about 50% of the total incidence. In order to avoid the harm of bad emotions and psychological imbalance to human health and the threat of some diseases, more and more people begin to use music as adjuvant therapy.
A series of studies show that people who prefer classical music are often more free, imaginative and enthusiastic; People who like heavy metal music are often more adventurous and impulsive than those who like pop music, those who have no clear preference and those who like jazz and classical music. Heavy metal music and hard rock music cater to teenagers who want to do something sensational.
An American medical scientist once counted the ages of 35 famous American music directors who died. Their average life expectancy is 73.4 years, five years higher than that of American men. According to surveys in Germany, Italy and other countries, people who often listen to music usually live 5 ~ 10 years longer than those who don't listen to music.
Music therapy has been popular in many countries, and the medical community has confirmed through clinical experiments that music is very effective in relaxing the body and mind, refreshing the mind and inducing sleep. Physiologically, music can cause changes in breathing, blood pressure, heart beating and blood flow. Some types of music can also stimulate the body to release a natural opium called endorphin, which can relax the body and mind and relieve pain.
From 65438 to 0972, the Polish government, at the suggestion of several pathologists and musicians, established the first "Music Therapy Institute", which was quite effective. Soon, state-owned hospitals such as Britain, America and Japan also adopted the method of music therapy. For example, listening to music three times a day after meals can treat neurogastritis; Listening to lyric music to hypertensive patients can lower blood pressure; Listening to soft and relaxing music to frightened people can make patients calm down and even return to normal.
Why does the human body react in a specific musical environment? Medical researchers believe that this is closely related to the rhythm of human cells themselves. When the vibration of human cells is in harmony with the external rhythm, people feel comfortable. Scientists have also found that there is an anesthetic produced by the human body in the human brain-endorphin, and the pleasure people feel when listening to music is related to endorphin. Through the rhythm, speed and tone of music, it can play the role of sedation, excitement, analgesia, regulating heart rate and lowering blood pressure. For example, fast-paced music makes people feel refreshed, while melodious music makes people calm.
Westerners believe that listening to western music, especially classical music, has the best effect. Some experts pointed out that Schubert's music can help insomnia patients fall asleep, Bach's music can relieve indigestion, and Mozart's music can relieve the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. It is also said that Mozart's music can relieve fatigue and cheer up the spirit.
Music has two effects on human body:
(1) physiological function. Generally speaking, the music rhythm of about 60 times per minute can produce "* * * vibration" with the normal physiological rhythm of healthy people, which is beneficial to the normal operation of blood vessels and breathing and the balance of body and mind.
(2) Psychological influence. Sweet music can make people feel happy, thus relieving tension, lowering blood pressure, relieving pain, and also helping to stimulate appetite and help digestion.
In recent years, many scientists have confirmed through scientific research that music has a positive effect on people's physical and mental health. Music therapy has become popular in many countries, and the medical community has confirmed that music is really effective for some diseases through clinical experiments.