Meditation and Music – a proven way to heal your mental health in 2024

Heal your mental health with Meditation and Music…..

Preamble

Mental health – have you also heard about this too much specially during the present days. Are you also facing the issues related to your mental health like many? If yes, then have you tried to understand that why are you feeling so? If no, have you tried to understand that why this (mental health) is becoming the topic of social world? Was the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput only reason for making this as buzz word of social media? Is there any other reason behind the same?

Along with these and several other questions, one important question is – does mental health really matters a lot? If yes, then what are the factors contributing to the disturbances of your mental health? Most important is how you can improve your mental health? So, let’s move through the topic of today’s talk – “Meditation and Music – a proven way to heal your mental health”

Mental health

Now, before getting through the exact answer to the question of this article, let’s first understand more about the factors contributing to the disturbances of your mental health. As you all know that mental health is a way to define our emotional, psychological and social well-being. More, it refers to the state of our mind to handle stress while going through the variety of situations.

Now, the question is that how this stress is generated in different situations? The simple answer to this question could be when you are forced by the external environment through different situations to change your regular way of working, it causes resistance towards this change. In more common way, this resistance is known as stress.

Causing of stress

Let’s understand it in a bit simple way. I hope, we all are always trained to follow a regular pattern in our life. Usually, this exact way of living differs as per the individual’s life style. But, the common elements of everyone’s life style remains like as going to their respective offices / businesses etc., meeting out the needs for daily essentials, shopping / making expenses based on the standards of the society, investing the money according to the future plans and many others.

I hope, you all are even already aware of this regular pattern. Now, until you are doing good in your jobs / businesses, getting promotions, increments etc. Everything works fine for you and you start to upgrade your living standard.

But when circumstances get you demoted in your jobs / businesses, then your mind doesn’t allow you to downgrade your living standard. Simply, we have always trained to grow ourselves with every success / growth in jobs / business. But, no one has trained us to manage the life during the time of decline / failure. At this point, we are unable to accept the changes being caused by the circumstances. Therefore, it leads to stress in our mind.

Now, when this induced stress is within our adjustable limit, we always try to manage. Here, the phrase “within our adjustable limit” means that we are aware of the situation and know the timelines for bouncing back. But when situation leaves us with uncertainty, it causes that kind of stress which leaves us with disturbed mental health.

How to improve your mental health

Till now, I hope you got the idea of the factors contributing to the disturbances of our mental health. Now the question is how one can improve this state of mental health. So, if you have gone through our previous article, you might have known some of the ways. Here, I will focus on two more ways – meditation and music – to help in relieving this high state of stress. So, let’s start with – how they help in improving the mental health?

Music helping in handling the stress

Music is a great source for relieving stress and anxiety. It doesn’t matter the kind of music; you are going to listen. Whether, you are going to listen metal, pop, classical or any other kind of music, one thing is sure they all will help you in managing emotions. However, sometimes it also depends on your purpose that what kind of music you are going to play. The some of the ways, music can help you in managing the emotions are listed below;

1. Classical music can help you in gaining the focus over the task by improving the efficiency of brain processing.

2. Music also helps you in expressing your thoughts. Whenever you’re thinking that it’s difficult to discuss or communicate your feelings, just listen to music for help. Making your own music – regardless of whether just playing a guitar or creating verses to a melody – can assist you with communicating and procedure your feelings.

3. Music can also help you in not feeling alone or lonely. While playing / listening music, you feel to connect with the people. As music helps in increasing the efficiency of brain processing, it also allows you to think creatively.

4. Music also helps you in relaxing and motivating. It disconnects you with the plethora of feelings resulting from the surrounding and heals your mind and make you feel comfortable.

So, in what other ways, music can help you?

Meditation as a stress booster

Meditation helps you in connecting with your inner self and detaching with the external emotions. This way, it helps you in controlling your emotions and feeling relaxed. Spending even a couple of moments in meditation can re-establish your quiet and inward harmony.  Anybody can practice meditation. It’s basic and also doesn’t require any unique skill.

Meditation has been practiced for a number of years. Meditation initially was intended to help develop comprehension of the consecrated and supernatural powers of life. Nowadays, it is usually utilized for unwinding and stress decrease. Meditation is viewed as a kind of psyche body correlative medication.

During mediation, you concentrate and take out the flood of muddled considerations that might be swarming your brain and causing pressure. This procedure may bring about upgraded physical and enthusiastic prosperity.

Advantages of Meditation

The enthusiastic advantages of meditation can include;

1. Increasing another viewpoint on unpleasant circumstances

2. Building aptitudes to deal with your pressure

3. Expanding mindfulness

4. Concentrating on the present

5. Decreasing negative feelings

6. Expanding creative mind and innovativeness

7. Expanding persistence and resilience

This is how mediation and music can help you in healing the mental health. These are some of the proven ways which help you in relieving mental stress.

Take care of your mental health.

Stay Pleasant, Be Productive

Thanks

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Disclaimer: The views presented in this article are the author’s own views. The views are presented here just for the purpose of information. These views are not meant to harm any one’s belief / thoughts.