Depression

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A number of scientific investigations have provided evidence that the regular practice of meditation can improve mental and physical health, mood and cognitive functioning. Meditation can help diminish a person’s susceptibility and responsiveness to stress, lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and reduce tension and anxiety. Research has shown that hormones and other biochemical compounds in the blood, indicative of stress, tend to decrease during meditative practice. These changes also stabilise over time, so that a person is actually less stressed biochemically during daily activity. Meditation will help create an amount of balance in the nervous system. This would enable the glands to return to a correct state of hormonal balance and thereby overcome the feeling of depression. 

Discover the Healing Power of Music Therapy

          Like meditation, music too has a transquilising effect on the body. Belief in the curative and healing power of music has existed in India since ages. Seeing the advantages, it has over the Western psychotherapy, psychiatrists have stressed the need to adopt and accept music therapy to bring about positive changes in lowering anxiety, muscle tension, blood pressure and in soothing aches and pains. It is believed that music stimulates the pituitary gland, whose secretions improves the nervous system and the flow of blood.

Now, it is medically proven fact that music has a way of healing and calming frayed nerves, weary minds and fatigued bodies. It restores, maintains and improves emotional, psychological and physiological well-being. A new study (2010) from McGill University has revealed that listening to music releases dopamine hormone, a neurotransmitter in the brain important for more tangible pleasures associated with great food, drugs and sex. Music reduces the level of harmful cortisone hormone which gets elevated when a person is under stress.