Music is the world’s universal language that has the power to heal, connect, and provide the opportunity to feel. Listening to music brings us joy and comfort, motivates us, and helps us relax. Music has the power to transport us back in time, and keep our minds calm or boost our moods. For every feeling, there is a song.
Before we go further, take this moment to turn on your favorite song. After you have listened to that song, come back, and continue to read as we continue.
Now that you listened to your favorite song, how did you feel and what did you remember?
We have all felt that happiness or high that comes from hearing our favorite song, and there is a reason for it.
Listening to your favorite song can cause the release of dopamine into your brain, making you feel happy and reducing depression.
What is dopamine?
Dopamine is the ‘’pathway to pleasure’’ it is one of the four feel-good hormones, along with serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin. When listening to music, this dopamine enhances learning, attention, mood, and movement (Picture the songs that make you want to show off your moves!).
What is it about music that activates this dopamine?
6 Reasons People Listen to Music
Here are six ways music can enhance your well-being.
1. To boost your mood
Listening to your favorite song can cause a release of dopamine into the brain, which can help in preventing depression. Listening to music, singing, and dancing will help you feel better.
2. Enhance attention and focus
Music can improve attention and focus and enhance mental performance during study or when working on a job. If you ever find you’re losing focus during work or studying, give some stimulating tracks a go to help you keep your attention.
3. Recall fond memories
Music has the power to transport us back in time and can allow us to recall loving memories. Listening to the same music repeatedly creates relations in our brain with the feeling experienced while listening to that music.
4. Promote relaxation & restful sleep
Listening to some calm songs when you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and on able to sleep.
5. Boost motivation and energy
Listening to music will make exercise much easier for most people. This is because fast-paced, upbeat music increases your heart rate and gives you a burst of energy, fueling motivation and maximizing performance.
6. Cultivate connection
Music is universal. It brings different people together from all around the world. It doesn’t matter your language or where you are from, music is a universal language that all of us can understand.
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How Does Music Make You Feel?
Music evokes emotion and makes us feel happy, sad, or dance. Certain melodies will remain ingrained in your mind. When you hear a sound from a scene in one of your favorite movies. It takes you back to the feeling you had at the time you watched the movie.
Music has a positive impact on our mental state. Fast temple music can psychologically and physiologically aroused and energize us for the day. While slower tempos help us meditate, relax, and reduce stress.
Scientific evidence suggests that music can alter mental states in predictable ways and even damage brains.
Music boost energy
When you need your energy level to be high when exercising, cleaning, or working. A piece of upbeat music will give you the lift you need. Consider using music in the morning when getting ready to set your day off in the right tone.
Music improves sleep
Listening to relaxing music an hour before bedtime will create a sense of relaxation and improve sleep.
Calm road rage
Listening to music in heavy traffic will reduce your level of frustration and will make you a safer driver.
What songs make you feel good?
The Healing Power of Music
How does music affect our lives? Music can affect our mental states and raise our moods. Music gives us motivation when we need it the most. When we’re worried, it can soothe us; when we’re weary, it can encourage us; and when we’re feeling deflated, it can re-inspire us. Music also functions to improve our physical health.
And in physical illnesses. According to a recent study at Johns Hopkins, group singing improved the quality of life and voice strength and clarity in individuals with Parkinson’s disease.
The healing vibrations of sound
Music is sound in its basic form, and sound is nothing more than waves of vibrations that carry a specific energy at a specific frequency traveling through the air.
The human body is made up of billions of tiny particles vibrating at a specific frequency. When sound travels at a certain frequency, our body responds to the vibration the sound emits.
This vibration is beneficial to the physical and mental health of your body. Harmonic sound frequencies assist in restoring your body to health by lifting the dis-eased vibrations of stress, illness, and depression.
Music reduces medical anxiety
Are you feeling stressed about an upcoming medical procedure? Use music to calm jitters. Putting on your earbuds and start listening to your favorite songs while sitting in the waiting room will ease anxiety about any medical procedure like injections.
The emotional healing properties of music
Research has shown that music is healing for the body, mind, and soul. Think about which song helps you through your last heartbreak.
Music therapy is a valid treatment for depression, anxiety, and chronic pain, but only recently, music therapy has also been used to treat patients with Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease. Music therapy connects patients with memories and thoughts, keeps them relaxed, deals with their emotions, and makes them healthier.
The Connecting Power of Music
Music has the power to bring people together and make acquaintances where there were none before. One thing missing in our society is the feeling of a sense of belonging and connection on a human level.
Smartphones have made communication more accessible, but the physical connection is lacking more and increasing as the days go by.
Music is a powerful tool that unites people from all age groups, nations, and religions and breaks the barriers of fear, hate, and misunderstanding. Music improves social connection. The power of music extends beyond ourselves. Music connects us to a memory, distant place, or moment in time, and links us to each other.
When words fail, music speaks
Live Band: The Overwhelming Feeling It Brings
What better way to connect with people: family, friends, colleagues, or even people you’re meeting for the first time? Then enjoying the overwhelming performance from a live band. A live band will create a memorable time for you and your friends. A live band will connect you, your friend, and your family members in a deeper realm. It is not a feeling you would overcome soon.
Connecting Through Music
Everyday activities can become powerful opportunities for you, family members, and friends to deepen social bonds with each other. Consider these activities to add more music to your life.
1. Create a playlist for outings
Heading on a road trip? Plan to go boating this summer? Any family outing is a great opportunity to add music and increase the parent-child bond and bond with friends.
2. Express yourself when talking is difficult
Music helps people express themselves perfectly when words fail. It allows family members to reach out to each other. Music helps you to share a special bonding moment with your friends and family, helps them connect to their past, and creates fresh memories for their loved ones to cherish after they are gone.
2. Perform for friends and family during karaoke night
When families and friends feel comfortable performing music for one another, they’ll feel more comfortable talking together. To break the ice for families who are having difficulty finding a suitable space for communication. Don’t know where to begin? Get some mariachi audio songs
3. Play your high school favorites
As Parents, you should spend much time getting to know your kids and thinking of what to say—or not say—to help them. It’s important to teach your children about themselves. Sharing our identity with our kids from before we were parents can help them see us as people, not just authoritarians.
They may laugh when you tell them about your old-school “odd” taste in music, but they will remember the story and why it’s important to you.
4. Sing in the car
The best chance you have to connect with your children and friends often comes as part of your daily routine. While your kids are busy with extracurricular activities, you are often the one driving them.
5. Invite a Mariachi band for a dance 
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You don’t need to be a good dancer to bust a move. Research shows that coordinated, synchronous movement to music can increase social bonds.
Music creates the mood you need. Do you want a party with a romantic vibe, a playful vibe, or just a casual one? Mariachi music should do the job. Although playing recorded audio might do the job, a live band will do better. You have been planning every session; you don’t have to overstress it by still thinking about the kind of music to play for a dance party. Let the mariachi bands take that burden off you. Most of all, music from a mariachi band makes people happy.
Music is Always Worth the Effort
Music has this ability to heal, connect and create a state of mental wellness. Feel the power of music by listening to a mariachi band and feel how music uplifts the soul and connects your thoughts.
Get the best of music by inviting a mariachi band for your indoor parties, wedding events, birthday parties, or any celebration with your friends and family
We in Mariachi Alegre in Tucson Arizona have been doing mariachi music for over 35 years. In addition, we play any music on request. Reach out to us.
