If your doctor tells you "Sing a song a day, to keep the Doctor away." You better believe her. If you get a chance or the mood to sing, do embrace it like gold. Research has shown that singing does bring out our feeling, balancing our emotion and may even prolong our lives.
We don't have to professional singers to enjoy singing. "When we sing instead of speak, we have intonation, melody line, and crescendo, which gives us a broader vocabulary to express ourselves," says Suzanne Hanser, chair of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music. "Because singing is visceral (relating to, or affecting, our bodies), it can't help but effect change."
More studies have linked singing to reducing stress, lowering of heart rate and decreasing of blood pressure. According to Patricia Preston-Roberts, a board-certified music therapist in New York City. She uses song to help patients who suffer from a variety of psychological and physiological conditions.
"Some people who have been traumatized often want to leave the physical body, and using the voice helps ground them to their bodies," Preston-Roberts says. "Singing also seems to block a lot of the neural pathways that pain travels through."
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