The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once said: If I hadn't been so obsessed with music, I might not have become a novelist. A good melody can not only make the brain have "electrocution" like inspiration, but also directly hit the heart and get emotional resonance.
Life is inseparable from music, and even the topic of how to choose to listen to music software has been viewed by more than 7.89 million people.
In medicine, music also has magical powers, and "healing" the heart is one of the benefits. Some abnormal electrical signals from the heart can even be simulated by rhythm.
Life Times interviews experts to explain how music can help maintain a healthy heart and teach you how to decompress listening to music at different times.
Experts interviewed
Liu Jian, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital
Musical rhythms can simulate uneven heart rate
In all organs of the body, the heart and music seem to be more closely linked. Physically speaking only, they all have a beating rhythm.
The normal heartbeat rhythm is stable and uniform, and if the heartbeat is abnormal, the balanced heartbeat interval will be broken. At this point, the clever beats and musical terminology in the music can play a role in helping people identify the abnormal rhythms that the stethoscope can only hear.
Elaine Chew, a professor at Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom, has been working on digital media and is a pianist herself. She led the team to create music based on an analysis of the heartbeat rhythm of patients with uneven heart rate.
The researchers converted the collected ELECTROCARDI data into musical information, reproducing the heart rate rhythm of patients with uneven heart rate to transmit the sound of music expressing the rhythm of the heart. Like what:
Arrhythmia: A musical clip from Brubec's Turkish Blue Whirlwind simulates the rhythmic characteristics of arrhythmias in an electrocardiogram. Because the song has a rhythm of 2:4:3, it is similar to the beating characteristics of the heart's early beats.
Atrial fibrillation: Piazzolla's "Big Tango" presents an irregular rhythm of atrial fibrillation under the effect of mixing.
These interesting musical attempts not only allow ordinary people to feel the disease of uneven heart rate, but also give doctors some new enlightenment.
How does music "heal" the heart?
In addition to being integrated into medical treatment, the benefits of music also bring a variety of direct benefits to the heart and other organs.
Improves exercise capacity and promotes blood supply to the heart
At the beginning of this year, a study published in the internationally renowned journal Psychology of Sportand Exercise by cardiologists at the University of Toronto Teaching Hospital in Canada believed that music can divert patients' attention from the pain of rehabilitation exercise, which explains why people can persist in music for longer and more intense exercise.
Helps relieve postoperative pain and anxiety
2 to 3 days after heart surgery, pain usually occurs due to the failure of anesthetics. After analyzing 20 targeted studies, Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that listening to music after surgery can significantly reduce the anxiety index and pain perception of patients, and this effect can be extended to 8 days after surgery.
A 7-year follow-up study published by the University of Belgrade in Serbia showed that listening to 30 minutes of music a day can alleviate chest pain and anxiety after a heart attack, and the average person can also stabilize heart conditions.
Lower heart rate levels in patients with high blood pressure
A study published in Scientific Reports, a sub-issue of the journal Nature, showed that people with high blood pressure after taking antihypertensive drugs. Compared with people who do not listen to music, those who listen to classical music for 1 hour, blood pressure and heart rate will drop to a lower level.
According to the researchers' analysis, it may be that music activates the parasympathetic nervous system in the human body that helps lower blood pressure and slow heart rate.
Cardiologists point out that these benefits may stem from 3 factors:
First, the sympathetic nervous system is more extensive, which can promote motor function to adapt to changes in the environment, such as the heartbeat will be accelerated during exercise, and music will cancel out the activity of the sympathetic nervous system.
Second, music helps regulate people's emotions, improve concentration, and promote positive changes in the brain to improve physical function.
Third, conditioning is one of the higher functions of the human brain, and different music beats trigger different heart rates. Studies have found that music with a relatively intense melody rhythm can make people nervous and have a faster heartbeat, while light music with a beautiful melody can make people calm and reduce their heart rate.
Each of the four moments has a recommended melody
There are many types of music, the rhythm from soothing to bright, the emotional color from gentle to majestic, if you use music to regulate the body and mind, it is best to "tailor-made".
When driving
Listen to some slow music
Narrow lanes, dim light, and closed tunnels that can't be seen at a glance often make people nervous. The study found that accidents in tunnels were far fewer, but more severe than on open roads.
After comparing the slow-paced music "Cannon", the fast-paced music "Croatian Rhapsody", the siren and the female safety warning, the experiment found that when listening to fast-paced songs, the driver drove the fastest; when listening to soothing music, the driver's speed slowed down significantly, indicating that the driver's feeling was more relaxed and less mentally stressed.
Recommended music
Canon in D Major
When you get up early
Listen to soothing music
Listening to music is easier to help you reduce stress and increase confidence in coping with the day's work rather than waking up early to listen to the news.
Researchers at the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have found that listening to soothing, pleasant music after waking up can not only make people more awake, but also maintain a happy mental state.
Snowdreams Music: Bandari - Rhine River
When exercising
Listen to uplifting music
Although it can secrete dopamine during exercise, making people happier, if you want to stick to it for a long time, you may wish to go with music.
From the perspective of exercise physiology, the average pace of running is 150 to 190 steps per minute, and the heart rate is 75 to 95 beats per minute.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Okanagan, Canada, have found that listening to uplifting music during exercise can cause the body's fatigue to plummet. At the same time, it can also reduce the bad feeling of rapid heartbeat and muscle soreness, even for people who don't usually exercise much.
Stray Music: Damon Empero - Stray
When dating
Listen to romantic music
A joint study by the University of Granada in Spain and the University of La Frontera in Chile shows that listening to romantic songs changes the body temperature and deepens if they have a good relationship with each other.
It was found that couples who have been together for less than 6 months will cool down when they hear romantic songs, especially in areas such as the tip of the nose, cheeks, forehead and fingertips.
For couples with very stable relationships and high satisfaction, hearing romantic songs will heat up the above body parts, and the closer the relationship, the faster the heating up.
My Heart Will Go On音乐:Céline Dion; Webster - 47 Movie Themes
It should be reminded that for the elderly, music with too strong rhythm and emotional expression, as well as music with too high decibels and too sharp a voice, should be avoided, which may increase the burden on the heart and blood pressure. ▲
Editor of this issue: Zhang Yu
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