Music provides a powerful tool for learning and stirs your soul. “There are few things that stimulate the brain the way music does,” says one Johns Hopkins otolaryngologist. “If you want to keep your brain engaged throughout the aging process, listening to or playing music is a great tool. It provides a total brain workout.”
Did you know that Music is also lives inside our brains longer? There is a part of our brain, that looks like the shape of Italy :), that researchers have identified as the Musical Memory Area. Music lasts longer in our memories! You can use music as a tool to learn and teach. It appears that since it creates an elevated emotion and feelings to the surface, it also builds a memory.
So what’s your jam? What gets you moving and motivated?
Live well!
