What impact does music have on your brain?

Music surrounds us and floods us, it makes us emotional, it makes us travel in time, it gives us strength or fills us in moments of peace. Music is found everywhere, in every sound, in every rhythm and in every voice. But what really happens to our brain when we listen to a melody? For example, With music we manage to activate both hemispheres of the brain and create more connections between them.

The human brain consists, as we have explained before, of two hemispheres. The left hemisphere is in charge of the most logical part, reasoning, numbers, language, etc. On the other hand, the left hemisphere manages the most intuitive, imaginative and creative functions.

From the moment we are born, there are sounds that help the development of our brain. The baby can even recognize his mother’s voice before any other sound. He thinks that Hearing is one of the first senses that develops in newborns.

What happens when we listen to music? The right part of our brain will make us imagine and let our emotions fly and the left part will be activated by analyzing the works and emphasizing the most rational part, such as the meaning of the lyrics, musical figures, rhythms…

Benefits of learning music

The plasticity of the brain in childhood is enormous and with music both parts of the brain are activated and the hemispheres create more connections. Something that adults can also work. In this sense, although the changes occur less pronounced and slower (our neuronal plasticity is less) we will also be able to enrich the architecture of our brain.

Some of the benefits we can obtain from musical learning related to the left hemisphere of our brain:

Improve memory. Fine or gross motor skills depending on the type of instrument we play. Rhythm. Body coordination.

If, on the other hand, we look at the right side, some of the improvements we can make would be:

Develop imagination.Creativity.Harmony.

If we focus on the level of emotions we can also change them depending on which part of the brain is activated. And how can we help ourselves with music then on a social level? If we manage to activate emotions that unite or promote empathy to get closer to others, we will get our brain to create new connections and new routes, activating new emotions with melodies.

Music and emotions

“You hear a song that makes you sigh, and speaks to the heart of a sensation, as big as the sea. Something between the two changes without wanting to, an illusion is born, they tremble with emotion…” (Fragment of the song from the movie “Beauty and the Beast”). It is extraordinary that all these emotions described here can be activated with just one sense, hearing.

We can listen to music and relax, just as we hear a melody that can activate us or put us in a good mood or make us recharge our batteries. How can we make the most of the possibilities that music gives us?

Each music has the ability to activate an emotion. Music therapy is an example of everything we have explained. It is about using music and all its elements for your own benefit; taking into account that each of us would have to choose ours.

Music therapy allows us to develop in a new context, get to know ourselves through music and explore emotions. that sometimes accompany us as a background melody, without drawing the attention of our consciousness.

Think that we can communicate in a different way (with or without language), improve relationships, movement, organization, let ourselves go and free ourselves to explore a new world with our eyes closed. All this to improve hemispheric integration and personal well-being. So I propose… do we press play and let ourselves feel? Dare to discover yourself and fly with music.

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