Music can not harm people. Music studies have shown Music reduces pain, boosts motivation, willpower, and lowers stress and can lower blood pressure and affect breathing.

1. How Music
Affects The
Human
Biological
System
Created by: Jordan Bailey
Philosopher
Musician - Artist –
Dance music producer

2. The Dawn of Time
• Since the Dawn of Human Awareness and
the birth of civilization, we have been in
tune with music and rhythm from the very
beats of our hearts.
• It has been our mission since antiquity to
research and become aware of this
heartbeat and the awareness it has in
relation to the world around it.
• The object of rhythm is to syncopate
around the central rhythm and create an
eccentric tonality that functions as a
formal introduction into the frequencies of
the song.
• Studies have shown that the BPM or Beats
Per Minute of a song can have an effect on
at the rate at which the heart beats and
directly influence it’s emotions as well as
stimulate the cardiovascular system.

3. Ways Music Affects the Human Heart
*People find music exciting, relaxing, moving, and fun, as well as many other common human emotions that
can be articulated through song. The many reasons for listening to music are literally endless. There is no bad
music, only music that stands as an expression of a human soul or a human heart. As is in life, there can be
dark music, light music, sad music, and euphoric music.
*Music has a special ability, it has the ability to transport. Use your imagination when you listen to a song, and
turn off your thoughts. Allow the frequencies and the sounds of the singer and the drums to move through
your ears as if from point A to point B, before you decide what a point C is.
*People enjoy music because the frequency and tonality of the keys resonates with their mood and it
stimulates their connection to the environment in which they are listening to the song in some way.
*For example, listening to ambient music while on a walk can double the soothing relaxing feeling we tend to
feel when we take a stroll for the sake of pure enjoyment, while listening to loud metal music in a mosh pit can
feel quite hardcore.
*Silence can also be a song in itself, in silence we can hear the sacredness of our own soul’s song and our own
heartbeat. It is this sound that has a sacred pump to it that can be heard when you sleep and tune in to your
self. It is my mission to remind you that there is no good or bad music, simply music.

4. Ways Music Affects the
Human Brain
• It stands without too much reason that
when the heart’s blood flow is
emphasized by the mood of the music or
maybe the drum beat, (It could be a
different instrument that speaks louder to
different people.) That this blood would
reach the brain and the nervous system
would be working in tandem to process
the input of the musical frequencies and
keys. Not only is the brain stimulated with
processing emotions that leave trails of
feelings to be felt, we can practice our
empathic skills as humans to connect to
the creator of the song and the reason
why they created that song.
Next: Can deaf people “hear” music?

5. Can Deaf People Listen to Music?
• Deaf people can listen to music by feeling the vibration of
their instrument. We can feel music through our skin, as
well, providing evidence that not only is music processed
only from within the human body’s capabilities, but that
inherent patterns and repetitive beats on time add up to
music existing on it’s own, externally.
• We can test this by tapping our skin, the simple act of
touching produces a feeling that can be read as musicality
in the mind.
• Examples: Ray Charles ( Famous Blind/Deaf Pianist)
Beethoven (Lost his hearing at 50 and continued playing
very well) Several Deaf DJs can still mix tracks at clubs for
an audience of people by “Feeling” the vibration or the
beat in the air with their skin.
*Yes, Absolutely

6. Ways Music Affects
the Cardiovascular
System
• There are many ways music effects the cardiovascular system
as well as the rest of the body. If you think about it, when you
hear music it gets more blood pumping into your brain stem
to receive the audio and listen to it, so your cardiovascular
health automatically gets a boost, and you feel good for
listening. So why not boost your health and choose some
relaxing music to enjoy and have a glass of water?
• Studies have shown certain types of vocals and BPM’s can
influence the Brain’s chemistry in a positive manner.
• Music energizes the mind and body and has been shown to
help people exercise, and can even take away the stress from
exhaustion.
• The music you feed your body influences your emotions, so
feed it healthy positive nice music for best results.
• Classical music has been proven to lower blood pressure and
soothe the parasympathetic nervous system

7. Ways Music Affects the Respiratory System
• The music we listen to in life can also affect the respiratory system, since all the systems are connected,
when you start pumping more blood and your energy levels increase, your resting heart rate changes
to the tempo or mood of the music and results in a more calm and focused resting heart rate.
• Studies have shown that while listening to very relaxing types of music, it can calm our hearts, our
respiratory system and even get the healthy juices flowing through our circulatory systems.
• Did you know music can affect good memories, too?
• Can you feel the energy in your throat as you listen to a Jazz Trumpeter Jazz away enthusiastically?
• Did you know that as you read words on paper, your throat mimics the actions of speech as you read
each word?

8. Ways Music Affects
Memories
• We all know the classic spring time day where we were cruising with our buds down
the highway, jamming our favorite song together creating one of the best memories in
our lives to be reflected upon later. It will always be the most memorable moment
that ties the emotion of a song together that stands out and makes it catchy to us.
Later on life when we are much older, we can access these emotions with our
memories by listening to these songs. So think good thoughts and feel good things!
• It’s good to listen to music while making memories because the quality of the music
and environment can make a significant impact on someone’s future by associating
with good memories.
• Music affects the limbic system which is responsible for emotions and memories.
Music can not hurt people unless you listen to it too loud for too long. Sounds above
85 dBA can be harmful.
• If we sit around in a puddle of goo depressed listening to a song on repeat, we tend to
get pretty sad. But the good part is it’s just music and even the bitter sad feelings need
to get expressed and felt in life, and music can be a helpful tool in doing just that, by
being a good listener, music can help to move these painful emotions through our
hearts as we listen to the beauty expressed through other people’s lives.

9. Ways Music Affects
Memories
• Music can be educational. Did you know music has
existed since the dawn of civilization, and we can tap
into our ancestral emotions to evoke fantastic human
feelings and convey them using song? Combine
dancing with song and there is no limit to the
therapeutic expression outlet known as being a
human being. We can also convey things impossible
to articulate with just human speech alone with
music. Sometimes humans need to be a little creative
to get our message to be heard.
• Oftentimes musicians hide evoking life lessons in the
lyrics of their craft or the evocations of a moving
instrumental, and it is our job as the listener to feel it.
By creating strong memories with the music we love,
we set up neural pathways in our brain to continue
sparking good feeling reward circuits that keep our
dopamine and serotonin balanced and boosted
throughout the day. There is no wrong time to listen
to music, if you feel like it.

10. Music and the Unconscious
• Listening to music activates the brain in such a complex way, it’s actually very fascinating. When
humans hear music, circuits such as neurons begin to communicate with each other and respond,
activating each other in such ways that transmit chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin to
each other through the electricity and water in our bodies. These chemicals bond to each other
through a chain reaction of electro-chemical reactions in the brain, and regardless if you are
dancing or not, your unconscious will pick up these signals and your respiratory and circulatory
system will be affected.

11. Music and Food
• Rock music can sometimes be associated with
increased consumption of alcohol.
• Classical music can help increase the enjoyment
of the senses while eating.
• Slower tempo music can unconsciously influence
one into consuming their food more slowly and
taking slower bites as well as chewing their
mouths with a calmer pace.
• Faster cadence paced music can also influence a
more hastily consumption of the food being
eaten resulting in more excited chews.

12. Music and Patterns in the Mind
• Studies have shown that when we listen to music with varying speeds and
intensities of motifs, cadence, speed, melodies and verses, instrumental or
with voice or not, we carve patterns into the neuronal tunnels in our mind
and it creates patterns for recognition.
• Studies have shown we can use music to deliberately shift our bodies
chemistry from unmotivated, to more motivated by listening to music for
10 to 15 minutes prior to a mental or cognitive activity.
• By repeat listening to the same song, we help to reinforce the tunnel’s
pathway inside our brains and solidify the desired effects as well as
enhance concentration and focus, as well as motivation.
• Studies have shown that when we listen to piano in our head, it produces a
rainbow like cascade of evocative and pleasant emotional states in side our
selves.

13. Resources: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/music-and-health-what-you-need-to-know
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