Health Benefits of Singing

Barbershop.org published a great article outlining what the scientific and academic community have discovered about the benefits of singing.  Here’s a list of some of their findings:

• Scientists say singing boosts immune system, helping to fight disease and prolonging life expectancy

• Singing releases endorphins into your system and makes you feel energized and uplifted. People who sing are healthier than people who don’t.

• Singing improves your mood. It releases the same feel-good brain chemicals as sex and chocolate!

• Singing makes us breathe more deeply than many forms of strenuous exercise, so we take in more oxygen, improve aerobic capacity and experience a release of muscle tension as well.” — Professor Graham Welch, Director of Educational Research, University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK

• Singing releases pain-relieving endorphins, helping you to forget that painful tooth/knee/whatever

• Singing tones abdominal and intercostal muscles and the diaphragm, and stimulates circulation.

• It is very effective as a stress reliever and improves sleep

• Your posture improves, which affects how you are perceived by others at crucial times like job interviews, school reports, or first dates.

• Singing gives the lungs a workout and increases your lung capacity

• Singing clears sinuses and respiratory tubes

• Your mental alertness improves

• Singing increases your confidence

Singing is the most organic form of music that the human body can create.  And yet, often we are afraid to sing, or consider ourselves non-singers altogether.  But singing is built in to our body.  It uses the same muscles that we speak with.  If you can speak, you can sing.  Voice lessons can help create a structured approach to accessing the voice so that, with a little guidance, we can feel more confident connecting with our natural musicality.

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