The Anxiety- and Pain-Reducing Effects of Music Interventions

People mostly define entertainment as fun. However, entertainment is more than fun as people’s choice to have pleasure in their leisure time is entertainment. People look for doing two activities together. They wish to have pleasure and meanwhile seek for beneficial activities to contribute their quality of lives. Music is a tool to help people for expressing their feelings. In addition to that, music can help listeners. People listen to music since they are experiencing some emotional situations but benefits of listening to music are not just about emotions. Listening to classical music affects physics by reducing pain and blood pressure and preventing cardiovascular illnesses and psychology by reducing anxiety and providing to escape from the real world, help disabled children to train about what they cannot do, increasing concentration while people are learning and finally society by creating peaceful, intellectual and interactive environment. All these benefits of listening to music are important since it contributes the quality of life while giving pleasure to listeners.

Listening to classical music affects physical health in a positive way. In the article called “The Anxiety- and Pain-Reducing Effects of Music Interventions: A Systematic Review” by Nilsson, it is explained that listening to music every day is good for a person's health (780). Listening to music helps people to reduce their pain and blood pressure. According to the article called “Effect of Turkish Classical Music on Blood Pressure: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Hypertensive Elderly Patients” by Tansel Bekiroğlu et al. it is concluded that listening to classical music is beneficial to reduce blood pressure (147). The findings of the experiment show that l...

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