Why? Because music feeds the brain what it craves. Patterns.
If you have ever caught yourself unconsciously tapping a rhythm
with a pencil on a desk or with your foot on the floor when you
were nervous, anxious or bored, your brain was simply not getting enough
patterns, so it created its own.
Music is all about patterns. Cords are full of patterns. Rhyming words contain
patterns. The melody is a pattern that activates the right hemisphere of the brain.
Rhythm and harmony are patterns that activate the left hemisphere of the brain.
The beat of the music travels deep into the sub-brain (cerebellum) and actually
starts to synchronize your heart beat and breathing in a pattern. All of these
different areas of the brain chatter and link up with one another while the music
plays, increasing nerve connections between multiple parts of the brain and
codifying them into retrievable memory patterns.
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