Why Classical Music is Good for Brain Function Activity
- Hades Bodhi
- Oct 10, 2024
- 2 min read
Do you listen to classical music on a daily basis?
In fact, there are many benefits for your brain if you incorporate classical music into your daily life as background music!
Why Classical Music is Good for Brain Function
The human brain feels a sense of pleasure when it understands something that is a little complicated or somehow difficult to understand. Listening to classical music with a slightly academic appearance stimulates the part of the brain that controls higher functions, giving us a subconscious sense of accomplishment, which could be called “the joy of understanding.
In addition, listening to the familiar melody of a masterpiece classical piece that everyone knows releases the happy hormones dopamine and endorphins in the brain, and brain wave measurements have shown that it calms emotional pain and anxiety.
Listening to classical music played on acoustic instruments such as the piano, which has the same “1/f fluctuation” characteristics as in the natural world, first induces the limbic system to be triggered by the “1/f fluctuation sound” and stimulates the secretion of the neurotransmitters serotonin and acetylcholine.
Then, while inducing comfortable brain waves (alpha waves), it moderately stimulates the right brain, which controls ideas and imagination, and at the same time slowly restores the left brain, which is exhausted from daily language processing and logical thinking.
This stabilizes the autonomic nervous system and relaxes and soothes the mind and body. Incidentally, serotonin calms the mind, and acetylcholine calms irritation.
Nowadays, it is easy to listen to classical music through digital distribution, etc. Why don't you start a habit of “Daily Classical Music,” which is good for your brain health, at a volume that does not disturb you like background music played in a hotel lobby? You will surely enjoy a healthy life.
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