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Post by Zi on Sept 19, 2023 8:01:29 GMT
I came across this article (book review really) in The Guardian. It talks about the effect on music on well-being and perhaps physical health. Guardian article on music and healthI've used music to cope with among other things tinnitus and I've used it on The Collie to help her with her fear of thunder storms. In both cases it has worked very well. I wondered if anyone else had some views on it? The book list looks interesting too...
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Post by keff on Sept 19, 2023 9:30:13 GMT
Had a brief look at the article yesterday. I do believe playing an instrument is good for a number of reasons; it gives us a challenge, it keeps us alert, helps with motor functions, and keeps the little grey cells firing. Even helps with physical health if you skip along to the tunes in the head.
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Post by Zi on Sept 20, 2023 8:46:05 GMT
I'm sure you're right about playing music being very good at keeping the brain active and it seems to have a positive effect on mental well-being even when things don't go as swimmingly as one would wish.
I don't listen to enough music any more. I used to have hours and hours of travelling during which I'd read whilst listening to music but I seldom get a space of time when I can really listen as I used to. It tends to be short bursts now. I do find when I do listen that it is often very therapeutic or it affirms positive feelings. I've never gone down the route of listening to sad stuff when I'm sad - I just go into a computer game and beat up the baddies...
I used to do dancercise. When I mentioned to an (old) friend that maybe I should do that again, he said we needed to be careful at our age and that was over ten years ago when I was a mere 60 year old youngster... Mr Z listens to (classical) music in the gym... TBH in that circumstance I'd play Bee Gees etc etc...
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Post by keff on Sept 20, 2023 10:02:50 GMT
Dancing is great exercise at any age, surely.
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Post by Zi on Sept 21, 2023 8:48:47 GMT
I would have thought so. Anyway, how can anyone sit still through Staying Alive ?
I bet it would be hard to figure out the contribution of dance (physical exercise) and music to well-being. And if the dance is done as a group activity there would be that impact too.
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Post by pavane on Sept 23, 2023 14:09:45 GMT
As a sort of corollary to that, I have just got back from a visit to my brother whose house is very quiet. He used to listen to music but seems not to nowadays. He plays the guitar but otherwise seems to have silent pursuits, and his wife neither plays nor listens to music at all. I found it all verging on the disturbing. I listen to music a lot - both as in serious listening and having music on more-or-less in the background - and the house is rarely silent. It really felt quite bad for my mental health not to hear any music for 3 days.
Easy peasy!
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Post by corenfa on Sept 25, 2023 18:20:20 GMT
I came across this article (book review really) in The Guardian. It talks about the effect on music on well-being and perhaps physical health. Guardian article on music and healthI've used music to cope with among other things tinnitus and I've used it on The Collie to help her with her fear of thunder storms. In both cases it has worked very well. I wondered if anyone else had some views on it? The book list looks interesting too... In terms of physical health: piano keeps my typing speed well up there, and I also never get RSI nowadays from typing. In terms of mental health: I have been through some pretty bad mental health moments, but the worst were before I started up with piano again. No matter how rubbish things get in the rest of my life, piano has always eventually managed to pull me out of it. I reckon the constant improvement (seen over the long term) now helps me to have something to be happy about from week to week. It's supposedly also good for staving off dementia if one keeps learning new things, but it'll be a while before I get to test this out, I guess.
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