Many people ask us - where is the best source to find 'researched', small bite size knowledge that is easily understandable. Please find it below
Music Intervention does help with acute and chronic sleep disorder.
It's safe to say, music intervention does help with acute and chronic sleep disorder (Wang et. al, 2013) The result suggest, once sleep routine is established, it is possible to enhance your restorative sleep and get better in your day to day function.
Importantly, this is a process, not just a listening task to soothing music. OntoSync created a sleep programme assisting to form the habit.
Can lack of good sleep cause depression? It can and it does!
Research points into this direction clearly. Although any mental condition is directly causing sleep problems, in healthy population, the sleep is an absolute indicator oh how well you function during the day. Therefore, it shall be in everyone's priorities to have a goodnight sleep with on average 7hrs of sleep. How to do it with music? Sign up with our music Sleep programme to get there.
Is any music good to use as Sleeping aid?
Absolutely not. Even some soothing music is not really functional or healing music. Negative effects of too stimulating music is also seen in school-aged children who use digital media later in the day. Simply put - music should be carefully chosen especially if we are trying to establish our sleep hygiene routine - therefore a music psychologist's advice is certainly in place.
Is music therapy suitable for older people? It is. It is very common that older people, with increasing age, experience sleep disruptions. Or often wake ups during the night. Researchers found it is a very useful and simple, non-invasive solution to use sedative music as a sleeping aid (Chan et. al, 2010). Our Lab provides more information on this in our Music Sleep Workshop, sign up for more details.
Sleep is commonly induced through music listening across adult populations (Jespersen at al., 2015). It is a universally known phenomena across countries and cultures, people like listening to music to calm down. When your brain picks up on the right sound, your nervous system reacts, your heart beat slows down and supports your body into a stage of relaxation. Next time you notice a slow paced music around you, rest assured your brain is listening too!