Play a
Healthy
Tune!
by Sharon Carne
THREE
GUIDELINES
FOR HOW
TO CHOOSE
MUSIC TO
SUPPORT
YOUR
WELLBEING
The right choice of sound or music can effortlessly
create relaxation, reduce pain, boost your immune
system, diminish depression, dissolve emotional
blocks, stimulate the natural healing ability of
your body, connect the hemispheres of your
brain, enhancing creativity, accelerate growth in
consciousness, give you peace, and so much more.
How does music do this? Part of the answer to this
question is entrainment and resonance. Not many
people know that when you walk into your local
grocery store, where there is music playing, it takes
only minutes for your heartbeat to match the beat of
the music. There is no off switch to this response. It
works whether or not you’re paying any attention to
the music. This process is called entrainment.
Tune in to Your Heart
Your heartbeat is affected by the beat of the music.
This takes about five minutes. Your altered heartbeat
then affects your breathing rhythm and your brainwave
state. These three systems are intimately connected.
When you affect one of them, you affect all three. A
relaxed heartbeat ranges between fifty to seventy beats
per minute. To put this in perspective, sixty beats per
minute is one beat per second. Most people already
know what music in their collection to play to settle
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