

A survey of over 5,600 people from 11 countries demonstrated that music has played a very important role during the COVID-19 pandemic in helping people cope during lockdown, and meet their well-being goals across culture, age, and gender lines. A 2021 review of articles from 2009 to 2019 showed that music significantly reduced anxiety for children leading up to and during medical procedures. Music listening or music therapy reduced depression levels, according to a 2017 review, and was associated with increased confidence and motivation, especially in group settings. People who used music less were more likely to have lower quality sleep. 62% of respondents to a 2018 survey reported they use music (from multiple genres) to help them fall asleep, mostly because it relaxed them, and distracted them from daily stressors. A 6-week study showed that after having access to 30-minute music listening sessions each day at work for a month, staff reported decreased stress levels and less emotional exhaustion. Music therapy also had significant benefit in preventing burnout in operating room staff. An overview of 349 studies on music’s usefulness as a mental health treatment for conditions including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression, found that 68.5% of music-based interventions had positive results. A recent 2021 study showed that adults who listened to both personal and neutral selections of music, at home and in a laboratory environment, had significantly “reduced cortisol levels.” This was found regardless of the music type. Some recent findings include the following: In recent years, this research has expanded in exciting and surprising new directions. Most investigations into music’s health effects center on its ability to calm us down and relieve stress.

Ongoing or chronic stress can lead to developing an anxiety disorder, depression, chronic pain, and more.Īcross time and space, music has had tremendous success as a tool for stress relief. Short term, cortisol can help us find the focus and energy we need to deal with a difficult situation, but when the body is exposed to excess cortisol for a prolonged period of time, it causes perpetual, exhausting states of fight, flight, or freeze. For example, when we are highly stressed, our heart rate and blood pressure can go up, and our adrenal gland begins producing cortisol, also known as “the stress hormone.” Stress has a biological impact that causes your body to release specific hormones and chemicals that activate your brain in certain ways. Stress - the feeling of emotional tension, overwhelm, or feeling unable to cope - affects us mentally and physically. Co-hosted by Tracy Pattin and Josh Lucas.How can listening to music reduce stress?

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Did actor Robert Blake kill his wife? Or was the murder someone else's vendetta?įrom Wondery, and the team behind the hit series Hollywood & Crime (The Dating Game Killer, The Wonderland Murders, Death of Starlet) comes a six-part series about love, obsession and fame gone wrong. This is the story of Robert and Bonny’s toxic relationship, her shocking murder, and his chaotic trial. It would be the most expensive murder investigation in LAPD history to date. The search for Bonny’s killer took detectives on an eleven-month odyssey across the country and through Hollywood's underbelly of hustlers, drug addicts, and would-be hitmen. Simpson case had the eyes of the nation been so fixated on a homicide.
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She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. New episodes come out every Monday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.
