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Home / Health News / Sad music can actually make you happy!

Sad music can actually make you happy!

By: Editorial Team   | | Published: October 29, 2014 7:49 pm
Tags: Emotions  Healing with music  In the news  Mental health  Music  
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Do you have a special playlist of only sad songs? Worry not as research points out that it can evoke positive emotions. Why do people find solace in sad songs? To get over emotional stress and start their life afresh, an interesting study shows. German researchers have discovered that sad music can evoke positive emotions like peacefulness and tenderness. The biggest reward is that sad songs allow people to feel sadness without any of its ‘real-life implications’, they found. (Read: 5 reasons playing a musical instrument is great for your brain) Also Read - Mental illnesses on the rise in India: Know why and what you can do to fight the problem

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‘In other words, you can safely explore what it is like to be a little blue without experiencing the intense grief of mourning. ‘Sad music has potential to regulate negative moods and emotions, as well as to provide consolation… In this sense, sad music can play a role in well-being,’ explained study author Liila Taruffi from Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. (Read: Unwell? Here s music that heals you) Also Read - Food insufficiency during COVID-19 pandemic increases depression and anxiety symptoms

For the study, researchers analysed a survey of more than 770 people around the world. ‘Sad music promotes and creates a space for reflection and reappraisal of personal experiences, thoughts and feelings,’ Taruffi maintained. The appreciation of sad music is enhanced after an argument with a loved one or a break-up, the authors said. The findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE. (Read: Can music help you find inner peace?)

How does music affect the mind?

Many musical therapy experts recommend making music a part of your daily life, because its effects can improve with time. There is evidence that, over time, your language skills, creativity, happiness, and more, can improve with regular musical therapy. There are different components to music that can have an effect. Pitch, harmony, frequency, melody and rhythm all affect the brain in different ways.

How does music help a person relax?

One of my most recent CDs The Tree of Life , is a CD of guided meditation through the seven chakras, to help one relax and find a new dimension of living. Music can help listeners find inner peace and serenity. This practical audio guide invites all to live more consciously and transforms our raw basic energies into a harmonious way of living. In another of my CDs, Shanti , you can feel all your tension wash away, de-stress and relax. Read more about How hip-hop music can help combat mental health issues like depression

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Published : October 29, 2014 7:49 pm
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