Music has been proven to help with your mental health and overall health. Singing, songwriting, listening to music and playing an instrument are all things that you can do deal with your mental health.
Ways Music helps:
Connects you with your feelings
Gives you a way to express yourself
Boosts your mood
Makes you dance
Forms a community
Helps you feel your feelings
Increases dopamine to help with stress, depression, and anxiety
Helps to figure out who you are
Helps with memory
Challenges your mind
Helps to heal from trauma
Makes you know others feel the way you do helping with loneliness
Musicians raise awareness about mental health
Helps with relationships
Helps you to sleep
Lyrics can help you work thru things
Lyrics can touch you in a way to make you feel a certain way forcing you to deal with something that is bothering you.
Aids in self-expression
Improve motivation
DIstraction from the world and your problems
Shifts your mood
Engages your brain
Improves cognitive performance
Other benefits:
Manage pain
Make you eat less ( slow music)
Lower blood pressure
Improve endurance
Improve performance
Keeps your brain young
Improves Immune Fumctioning
Improves motor skills