How Jazz Music Can Help You Relax

Jazz originated in New Orleans, the city of steamboats and beautiful nightlife, so people there always knew how the music could help them relax. It’s easy for someone to say that jazz music helps them relax, especially if they listen to it often.

I perform jazz songs all the time and love the diverse range of sounds you can experience at a jazz show, but there’s actually science behind the ‘jazz helps with relaxation’ theory. The slow rhythms and tunes in jazz can promote calm and wellness even in people who don’t listen to the genre regularly!

Sure, dancing to jazz is one thing, but listening to it promotes focus, improves sleep patterns, and supports the immune system.

How Jazz Can Benefit Your Health

Sometimes, listening to jazz performances by well-renowned artists, like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Judy Garland, is enough to help you relax after a busy day.

Relieving Stress

Studies show that music directly affects our hormone levels, which in turn impacts the mood. This explains why music lovers, like myself, listen to their favorite music throughout the day to mold their emotions.

This explains why Frank Sinatra’s Here’s That Rainy Day can make you feel so blue. And on the other hand, This Could be the Start of Something Big by Eydie Gorme just makes you want to get up and dance along to the beat.

Stimulates Brain Activity

Even before I pursued a career in music, I would listen to jazz songs and performances throughout the day to stay focused. Although it would be challenging to not start dancing to cheerful songs, older blues performances would always clear out the ‘brain fog’ and keep me from distractions.

Hopefully, this positive benefit encourages younger people to listen to jazz. After all, they’re always on the lookout for relaxing music to study along to, right?

Promotes Creativity

Jazz can help you feel more creative, and it’s mainly because of how it reduces stress in the first place. When your brain is under lower levels of stress, it’s better able to process information and using imagination to create better ideas.

This is a major reason why jazz is so commonly played in numerous work environments as a way to improve productivity.

Improves Cardiovascular Health

Research indicates that jazz music and laughter positively affect your heart health by improving blood pressure levels. Well, now you all know my secret to staying youthful and energetic – it’s jazz! Again, this is mainly because of how jazz relieves stress and helps you stay focused.

If you’re looking for a great jazz album to start your journey towards relaxation, I recommend you give my album, Yesterday Once More, a listen. With energetic show tunes, blues, and love songs, this compilation includes all the songs that are closest to my heart. And now you can enjoy them by downloading my album on iTunes.

 

With Love, Maggy

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