— 6 reasons to take up vocals
— The benefits of singing for mental health
— How does vocals affect physical health?
— The benefits of singing for children

1) Improvement of the liver.
The effect of singing on the liver and other internal organs is due to the vibration created by sound waves. It has been experimentally established that only a fifth of these waves are directed outward, and 80% of the vibrations penetrate into the body and stimulate the functioning of the abdominal organs. When a person sings, the diaphragm intensively rises and falls, and these movements contribute to a kind of massage of the liver, gall bladder and intestines. As a result, the outflow of bile increases, digestion is optimized, the likelihood of developing stagnant processes is reduced, and the removal of toxins from the body is activated.

2) Protection from stress.
In Ancient Egypt, insomnia and nervous agitation were treated with the help of choral singing. Music still helps doctors today working with patients who suffer from mental disorders, emotional instability, migraines, neuroses, depression and phobias. Singing is useful for correcting stuttering and other speech disorders. When a person sings, his brain intensively produces endorphins, called joy hormones. Singing increases vitality, enhances the ability to concentrate, and increases physical and intellectual activity.

3) Treatment of respiratory diseases.
Systematic vocal training trains the diaphragm and the muscles responsible for the movement of the ribs during breathing, and optimizes the process of ventilation of the lungs. Proper singing requires a quick inhalation and a slow, gradual exhalation. This increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood, which helps activate the immune system. A person becomes more resistant to seasonal colds. Recently, doctors have become interested in using singing to treat ailments such as chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and bronchial asthma.

4) Increased tone and prolongation of life.
It is no coincidence that there are many long-lived opera singers: the first thing a future performer is taught is proper breathing and self-control. Without this, a person cannot withstand the many hours of stress associated with participating in a classical performance. As a result, singers master the skills of regulating inhalation and exhalation, proper functioning of the diaphragm, their active lung volume increases, and their heart muscle strengthens. Similar results can be achieved with amateur singing; It is only important to approach the issue of voice production competently.

5) Improved appearance.
When practicing vocals, a person constantly uses the muscles of the face and neck, which helps strengthen muscles, increase skin tone, smooth it and reduce the number of wrinkles. Singers maintain the correct oval face for a long time and even at a respectable age look younger than their peers. Singing is an energy-consuming process. An hour of vocal training costs the body about 120 kcal, and training the diaphragm helps tighten the abdominal muscles. All of the above allows you to keep your figure in shape.

6) Benefits for the pregnant woman and the fetus.
The expectant mother is usually recommended to listen to classical music: it calms both the woman and her baby. However, few people know that it is no less useful for a pregnant woman to sing tender lullabies or quiet lyrical songs. It is known that children in the womb constantly hear their mother’s voice and understand its intonations. Mom’s singing enhances the feeling of harmony, calm and security, and in the postpartum period, familiar pleasant sounds will help the child quickly adapt to an unusual world.

— The benefits of singing for mental health

Many psychologists agree that there are real benefits from vocal training. What is it connected with and how to get it? According to experts, singing creates the following beneficial effects:

1) The benefits of throat singing are associated with improved emotional state. Good music and singing directly have a beneficial effect on your mood, relax you and fill you with energy.

2) Playing your favorite tunes on your own is good for mental health.

3) The benefits of vocals are associated with getting rid of stress due to the release of negative energy from the body.

4) Singing removes psychological blocks (so-called clamps), eliminates complexes and helps fight fears. Overall, it liberates every aspiring singer.

When practicing vocals, a person gains confidence and feels more free.

— How does vocals affect physical health?

The benefits of singing for the body are also associated with positive effects on physical health. This is due to the following factors:

1) By learning to sing, a person masters proper breathing. This trains the diaphragm and strengthens the abdominal muscles.

2) Vocal classes improve speech technique, helping to get rid of speech therapy problems.

3) Thanks to singing lessons, a person learns vocal breathing, due to which the body better resists colds.

4) Modern doctors are actively researching the benefits and harms of singing on the body, and they have already managed to find out several interesting facts. For example, vocals help treat bronchial asthma, pneumonia and chronic bronchitis.
Constant work of facial muscles helps maintain a youthful face. No harm or side effects are observed in vocals.

— The benefits of singing for children

Moms and dads try to ensure that their child is fully developed. When choosing a hobby, parents are guided by the benefits for the child both in the present - in terms of strengthening his health and developing his abilities, and in the future - whether the acquired skills and knowledge will be useful in his work, whether he will be able to apply them in life.

Vocals may be a suitable option, because all children love to sing, and singing is very useful. Singing affects both the health and emotions of children, and this is a proven fact by science. After all, almost every school not only has music lessons where children sing, but also organizes additional choir classes, and subsequently children’s groups.

It is well known that singing develops hearing and a sense of rhythm. Also vocal lessons:

1) Improve memory (since you need to remember the text, rhythm, melody, pauses);

2) Develop the ability to improvise (since singing is putting words to a melody, and the child can choose how to put them);

3) Stimulate speech activity (since while singing you need to not only clearly pronounce the words, but also sing them);

4) They normalize breathing, which is useful for the prevention of respiratory diseases (since while singing it is important to correctly balance breathing with pauses).
Speaking about the benefits of singing directly for children, it is necessary to note:

1) Singing has a beneficial effect on the immune system, thanks to the vibrations that connections create during singing. If children sing well, the range of frequencies they produce when they sing is between 70 and 3000 vibrations per second.

2) Singing also heals the child’s organs with the help of vibrations, 80% of which remains in the body.

3) Singing can cure asthma. As mentioned earlier, special rhythmic diaphragmatic breathing during singing not only improves lung function, but also has a beneficial effect on the nervous system.

4) Singing can cure a slight stutter, as it develops the speech apparatus and diction.

5) Singing not only helps with stress, but also makes children more friendly, which allows them to more easily establish contacts with other children. This point does not directly relate to physical health, but it strengthens mental health, which is also important.

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Polyakov Vladimir Petrovich
vocal teacher
Children's art school
Topar village

Properly selected music, according to psychologists, has a positive effect on human activity, promotes the rhythmic tuning of the body and, thus, all physiological processes proceed more efficiently. Just listening to music can change a person's mood. It's no secret that some works calm you down, while others lift your spirits. Nowadays, psychotherapists often use music for treatment. Music can be heard in the dentist's office. Listening to soft, calm, pleasant music causes positive experiences, enhances attention, and stimulates mental activity. Doctors recommend that pregnant women listen to classical music and sing calm lullabies. It is useful not only to listen, but even more useful to sing yourself. During singing, sound frequencies activate the child's development, affecting his brain.
Modern medicine has paid attention to the fact that vocal training has a beneficial effect on human health. By practicing singing, you can not only find joy, but also have a positive effect on your physical health. In the process of vocal training, the voice becomes healthier and improves the condition of the entire body. Singing is a good way to get rid of stress, since during singing, endorphins are produced in the brain, thanks to which a person feels joy and his vitality increases.
So, with the help of singing you can:
express and evoke feelings and emotions in others;
tidy up your lungs and improve your complexion;
correct posture;
improve diction and speaking, even correct a defect such as stuttering.
Singing is of great importance for children. It is impossible to overestimate its impact on the child's health. Working with the vocal apparatus has a healing effect on the entire child’s body. Every secondary school, not to mention music schools, tries to organize a choir, since singing is not only a health benefit, but also the formation of friendly relations between children. It has been noticed that children who sing are characterized by positive emotionality. Satisfaction from activities is the stimulation of a good mood, the absence of the desire to seek any other stimulants in the form of dangerous pleasures, including drugs.

Vibration and overtones.
The voice is a unique musical instrument that God gives us. The voice vibrates not only when a person speaks, but also when he screams and even whispers. These vibrations have a positive effect on the human body. The close proximity of the larynx and brain plays a role here. Overtones resonate with the bones of the skull and the brain. Thanks to this, the immune system is stimulated. It has been noticed that a singing child catches colds much less often.
A child's voice, if trained, covers a range from 70 to 3000 vibrations per second. These vibrations permeate the entire body of a singing child, thereby improving blood circulation. High frequencies promote blood microcirculation in the capillaries, and low frequencies promote blood flow in the veins and arteries.

Singing and internal organs.
Vocals are an excellent means of self-massage of internal organs; it promotes their healing. According to scientists, each human organ has its own vibration frequency, and when sick, this frequency becomes different, which causes a malfunction in the functioning of the whole organism. By singing you can influence a diseased organ, returning its healthy vibration, because when singing, 80% of the sound is directed inside the body, which makes our organs work more intensely. Sound waves, hitting the resonant frequencies corresponding to a particular organ, cause its maximum vibration and have a direct impact on this organ.
Active work of the diaphragm during singing massages the liver and prevents stagnation of bile. At the same time, the functioning of the abdominal organs and intestines improves. Some vowels make the tonsils and glands vibrate, which helps cleanse the body of toxins. There are sounds that help restore blood circulation and eliminate congestion. For example:
Vowels.
“A” - helps relieve pain of various origins, treats the heart and upper lobes of the lungs, helps with paralysis and respiratory diseases, has a powerful effect on the entire body, helping to saturate tissues with oxygen.
“I” – helps in the treatment of eyes, ears, small intestines. “Clears” the nose, stimulates the heart.
“O” – treats cough, bronchitis, tracheitis, pneumonia, relieves spasms and pain, alleviates pulmonary tuberculosis.
“U” - improves breathing, stimulates kidney function, treats the throat and vocal cords, as well as all organs located in the abdominal area.
“Y” – helps in treating ears, improves breathing.
“E” – improves brain function.
Consonants.
The healing power of certain consonant sounds has been scientifically proven.
“V”, “N”, “M” - improve brain function.
“K”, “Shch” - help in treating ears.
“X” – frees the body from waste substances and negative energy, improves breathing.
“C” – helps in treating the intestines, is good for the heart, blood vessels, and endocrine glands.
Sound combinations.
“OM” – helps in lowering blood pressure. It balances the body, calms the mind, eliminating the cause of high blood pressure. This sound opens the heart, and it becomes able to accept the world, lovingly, without shrinking from fear or indignation.
“UH”, “OX”, “AH” - stimulate the release of waste substances and negative energy from the body.

These sounds need to be sung. The intensity with which the sounds are sung is important. In case of cardiovascular diseases, the exercise should not be performed too intensely. When treating the abdominal organs, on the contrary, the more intense, the better

Singing and respiratory organs.
Singing is proper breathing, which, in turn, is an important factor in health. Vocals train diaphragmatic breathing, respiratory muscles, and improve lung drainage. There have been cases of complete cessation of bronchial asthma attacks in sick children. Doctors, diagnosing children with this condition, send the child to sing in the choir, and this has long been known to everyone. Singing not only relieves an attack of the disease, but also cures this illness.
It must be said that vocal classes are an excellent prevention of colds. Vocal exercises “pump” our tracheas and bronchi, and this is very important for a growing body. Vocal work is a great workout and ventilation. If you systematically practice singing, your lung capacity increases, which adds a margin of safety to your body. During the singing process, inhalation and exhalation occur at different speeds: inhalation is fast, exhalation is slow. Therefore, the oxygen content in the blood decreases and the amount of carbon dioxide increases. Carbon dioxide becomes an irritant; it activates the defense systems of our body, which begin to work in enhanced mode. Thus, singing helps prevent colds.
The results of research by American scientists show that singing not only develops the lungs and chest well, but also strengthens the heart muscle. Statistics show that the life expectancy of professional singers is above average. According to statistics, people who practice vocals professionally are physically healthy.

Singing and mild stuttering.
Vocal exercises improve speech function well. People who stutter can benefit from singing. And this especially applies to children. The earlier singing lessons begin, the greater the likelihood that a child will get rid of stuttering. One of the problems that a stutterer has is pronouncing the first sound in a word. In singing, one word flows into another and merges with the music. The child listens to other children, tries to get in time, while the emphasis on the first sound is smoothed out. It has been proven that mild stuttering can be eliminated completely with regular singing practice. The method of treating mild stuttering with vocal exercises is recognized throughout the world.

Singing and depression.
The positive effect of singing on people has long been known to our ancestors. Aristotle and Pythagoras recommended singing to treat mental disorders, and in Tibet monks still treat nervous diseases and insomnia with vocal exercises.
Singing is good for everyone! Even if a person believes that he completely lacks all abilities. The ability to express our emotions through voices gives us an excellent and effective means of relieving stress and internal tension. Singing exercises have an impact on mental development and strengthening of the nervous system. A singing person is always positive, and even if he has experienced grief, he experiences significant relief while singing. Sometimes, with the help of singing, people pour out those experiences that they could not cry out even with tears.

From my own experience.
Our art school is located in a small working-class village. The population of the village is also not large. Absolutely all children are accepted into the school and we don’t have the concept of “singing or not singing.” In my class there are both “honkers” and intoning students.
In my classes I use the phonopedic method of voice development by V.V. Emelyanov. Children of different ages scream, rustle, and hiss with great pleasure. It is impossible to perform these exercises sluggishly, lazily, without support. Children try to be active, collected, attentive, they are very energetic. Thanks to this technique, we discover new, healthy, rich sounds. It is with great pleasure and joy that I watch how children’s voices grow stronger and open up. This brings me great satisfaction from my work. Observations of children allow me to say that the number of sick children has become smaller. And if an illness occurs, then recovery occurs faster and easier. Vocal exercises significantly improve immunity. I say this based on my life and professional experience.

People believe that the soul sings in a person. Singing is a natural state of the human soul. If you're in a bad mood, sing! Do you get sick often? There is a recipe - sing! Are you feeling tired and can't get rid of tension? Keep your advice - sing! Sing always, sing everything you know and remember. Sing even if you've never learned to sing! Take your children to music schools, studios, and any choral groups so that they can be taught to sing. Learn with them and sing with them!

Literature.
Bulanov V.G. How singing contributes to the development of various and very useful personality traits - Yekaterinburg 2003. – p.13–16.
Emelyanov V.V. Voice development. Coordination and training – Borodulino 1996

Singing is not only a great way to lift your spirits, but it is also a powerful healing practice! Nowadays, vocals are used as an effective tool in a variety of fields of medicine, psychotherapy, pediatrics, etc. Zhanna Seropyan, the author of a unique method for accelerated voice production and development, and founder of the online-speaking community, talks about the benefits singing can bring to your appearance and health. Vocal school "Singing is Easy".

Even in Ancient Egypt, people healed with choral singing, and ancient Greek specialists healed nervous disorders with the sounds of a trumpet. The Hungarian composer of the early twentieth century, Zoltan Kodaly, noted that rhythm has the useful property of disciplining the nerves, training the larynx and lungs: “All this puts singing next to physical culture. Both are needed daily.”

Modern medicine pays great attention to the study of singing. In Russia, this area is dealt with by the Laboratory of Nonverbal Communication at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Arts. Vocal therapy, or the technique of healing singing, is used in the treatment of various pulmonary diseases, mental disorders, disorders of the immune system and the cardiovascular system.

Singing protects against stress. The process of singing stimulates the production of endorphin in the brain, which has a beneficial effect on the human central nervous system, helps to get rid of stress, causes satisfaction, and gives a good mood. The experienced positive emotional charge improves attention, activates vitality and increases intellectual activity.

Singing heals the liver. During singing, due to vibrations, intense self-massage of internal organs occurs. About 80% of the vibrational impact from vocals is directed inside the body, and only 20% goes into the surrounding space. Sound waves resonate with a specific organ, returning it to a healthy state, which has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the body as a whole. Vigorous work with the diaphragm activates the liver and improves the outflow of bile, normalizes intestinal activity, stimulates the endocrine glands, promotes the removal of waste and toxins, and eliminates congestion.

Singing develops the child in the womb. It is no coincidence that during pregnancy, women are recommended not only to listen to the classics, but also to sing lullabies to their baby. Alternating high and low voice sounds contribute to the harmonious physical development of the child, improve his brain activity, and also improve the general condition of the expectant mother.

Singing cures breathing diseases. Thanks to singing, all respiratory organs, the diaphragm, and specific muscles are trained, and ventilation of the lungs improves. Rapid inhalation and slow exhalation provoke an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood, which activates the body's defenses. In this regard, a singing person is less likely to suffer from colds. Singing helps treat pneumonia, bronchitis and bronchial asthma, neuroses and phobias, stuttering and depression.

Singing promotes longevity. As Vysotsky sang: “I breathe, which means I live.” And if you breathe correctly, you can live much longer. American studies have found that opera performers, thanks to singing, have well-developed lungs and chests, as well as strong and healthy heart muscles. Statistics confirm that many famous singers are long-lived.

Singing makes you younger. Thanks to singing, the facial muscles are tightened, the color and tone of the skin improves, the double chin is reduced, small wrinkles disappear, and a radiance appears in the eyes. During vocal classes, the abdominal muscles are trained and strengthened, posture improves, and the ability to hold your head beautifully and gesticulate expressively is developed. Half an hour of singing burns 60 calories! Thus, with regular training you will look much younger.

In order for vocals to truly have a beneficial effect on health, it is important to learn to control your voice well. Classes with an experienced teacher will help with this - at a music school, online courses or privately.

Sing from your heart! Sing every day, and you will not only improve your condition, but also prolong your youth!

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In our fast-paced age, it is not uncommon to complain about the everyday bustle. In such cases, psychologists advise: if you want to improve the quality of your life, then... just start enjoying it. For example, turn on your favorite music. After all, it has been known since ancient times that a melody chosen to suit one’s taste can work wonders. It has a positive effect on a person’s overall well-being, puts them in a positive mood, as a result of which even the dynamics of physiological processes in the body improve.

The role of music in our lives is truly enormous. In some cases it simply improves your mood, in others it relaxes and pacifies. The positive emotions that we experience when listening to pleasant melodies concentrate attention, activate the central nervous system and stimulate intellectual activity.

Quiet, melodic, moderately slow and minor works are often used in the medical practice of psychotherapists, as they have a calming effect on patients. You can often hear relaxing melodies in dental offices.

A song, that is, music and the words set to it, also has a real magical effect. Moreover, its healing power has been known since ancient times. Doctors have long noticed: singing - especially vocal training at a professional level - has the most beneficial effect on health.

The larynx is our “second heart”

Scientists have found that while singing, endorphins are produced in the brain - substances called “pleasure hormones.” Thanks to them, mood improves, joy and peace appear, vitality increases, and stress is relieved. In addition, singing can improve the condition of the lungs, complexion and even correct posture.

American scientists, in particular, conducted research among opera singers. As it turns out, singing not only perfectly develops the respiratory system and chest (they are especially developed in professional singers), but also becomes the key to the health of the heart muscle. The vast majority of professional singers have life expectancies well above average. That is, pay attention, opera singers are physically healthy people and, as a rule, live long.

The larynx, our voice-forming organ, is figuratively called by scientists the “second heart” of a person. When we sing for our own pleasure or in professional vocal classes, voice training gives health to the entire body, as if tuning it in the right way. For example, experts recommend that expectant mothers listen to classical works, but if they sing themselves, it is better to sing lullabies - calm, soothing ones. The latter is especially useful, since during vocals, sound frequencies activate the child’s intrauterine development and have a positive effect on his brain.

Singing is especially important for children. It is impossible to overestimate its influence on the health and development of the child. Especially if he attends vocal classes, where the teacher works with his vocal apparatus. Look how many children's choirs there are in our country! And this is by no means accidental, because collective singing also promotes friendship between children. Such children are distinguished from their peers by their positive emotionality and self-sufficiency. They have no desire to look for dubious stimulants, not to mention addiction to dangerous pleasures, including drugs.

Overtones to strengthen the immune system

Each sound of a voice is accompanied by vibrations of overtones - higher frequencies. The close proximity to each other of the larynx, in which these vibrations occur, and the brain plays a role here. Resonating with the bones of the skull and the brain, which is also responsible for the human immune system, overtones strengthen the body's defenses. What is especially important for a child. Therefore, children who love to sing are significantly less susceptible to colds than their peers who are deprived of this activity.

A child's voice, when trained, is capable of covering a frequency range of approximately 70-3000 vibrations per second. In addition to the fact that these vibrations generally have a beneficial effect on health, they seem to permeate the body of a singing child, promoting the cleansing of cells and their regeneration. Such a wide range of vibrations of the human voice also improves blood circulation: high frequencies favor microcirculation of blood in the capillaries, and low frequencies favor its flow in arteries and veins.

Sound therapy of internal organs

Scientists believe that human internal organs are tuned to their own vibration frequencies. Therefore, vocals are a unique means of self-massage for each of them, which promotes health and normal functioning. If an organ becomes ill, its frequency changes. As a result, disorder occurs in the functioning of the entire organism.

When a person sings, he thereby influences the diseased organ, returning it to healthy vibration. This effect is explained by the fact that when singing, only 20% of sounds are directed to the external space, and a significant part - 80% - is directed inward, prompting our organs to work intensively. Sound waves, coinciding with the resonant frequencies corresponding to a particular organ, cause maximum vibration in it and have a direct impact.

During singing, the diaphragm is activated. This massages the liver and prevents bile stagnation. At the same time, the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract improves. Some vowels, when we reproduce them, make the tonsils and endocrine glands vibrate, which helps fight slagging in the body. Many sounds are even capable of completely restoring blood circulation and eliminating congestion. And all this is not new: such sound therapy was widely used in China and India, where it is still practiced.

How do vowels help?

Thus, the sound “A” helps relieve various pains and has a healing effect on the heart and upper lobes of the lungs. In acute respiratory diseases, it has a healing effect on the entire body and helps saturate tissues with oxygen. It also helps with paralysis.

“I” will help you in the treatment of eyes, ears and ailments of the small intestine. It “cleanses” the nasal cavity and stimulates the work of the heart muscle.

“O” treats diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract - bronchitis, pneumonia, tracheitis, as well as cough. Relieves spasms and pain in these organs. Relieves the condition of pulmonary tuberculosis.

“Y” helps cure ENT pathologies (in particular, ear diseases) and improves breathing.

“E” favors the functioning of the brain.

The healing power of consonants

Some consonant sounds are also endowed with healing powers, which has been scientifically proven.

Thus, “B”, “M” and “N” have a positive effect on brain activity.

“K” and “Sh” help with ear diseases.

“X” cleanses the body of toxins and negative energy, and helps improve breathing.

“C” helps with intestinal diseases, is good for the cardiovascular system and endocrine glands.

The beneficial effects of sound combinations

Combinations of sounds also have a powerful healing effect on the human body.

“OM” helps with hypertension (lowers blood pressure), eliminating the very cause of hypertension. This sound combination restores balance to the body and calms the mind. It seems to open the heart, which gains the ability to accept the world with love, without shrinking from indignation or fear.

“AH”, “OX” and “UH” help cleanse the body of metabolic products and negative energy.

These sound combinations should not be pronounced, but sung. At the same time, be sure to pay attention to the intensity with which this is done. For example, if you have diseases of the heart and blood vessels (especially in the acute stage), you should not exercise too intensely. But if therapy is necessary for the abdominal organs, then, on the contrary, double efforts are welcome.

Singing and respiratory health

“The art of singing is the art of breathing correctly,” as they said back in the days of the old Italian vocal school. And indeed it is. When a person sings, his respiratory muscles are trained and diaphragmatic breathing develops, which together improves lung drainage.

With bronchitis, bronchial asthma and pneumonia, overexcitation of the sympathetic nervous system occurs, which is responsible for the functioning of internal organs. When a person inhales and then holds his breath - which, in fact, is what is observed when singing - then this part of the nervous system is activated and begins to work better.

There is a well-known method for treating bronchial asthma using singing training. In the practice of many teachers specializing in choral art, there have been cases of complete disappearance of attacks in sick children. And no one is surprised when doctors send a child with such a diagnosis to sing in the choir. Singing not only relieves attacks of this disease, but also cures it.

Vocal classes are an effective preventive measure in preventing, first of all, colds. Singing here is as necessary as air, as it “pumps” the trachea and bronchi, perfectly ventilates and trains the lungs. Thus, in people who systematically practice vocals, the vital capacity of the lungs increases. From this, the safety margin of our body becomes significantly greater.

Singing can also prevent respiratory infections due to the “gas imbalance” that occurs in the body when singing. When a person sings, he inhales air quickly. Exhalation occurs slowly. The oxygen content in the blood decreases, and the carbon dioxide content increases. The latter in this case becomes an irritant and “stimulates” the immune system, which begins to work more actively in case of illness.

Vocal training and stuttering

Singing your favorite songs improves your pronunciation and speaking practice. By training diction, you can cope with such a defect as stuttering. Therefore, the role of vocal training in improving speech functions can hardly be overestimated. This especially applies to children: the sooner a child suffering from stuttering begins to do this, the more chances he will have to say goodbye to this defect forever.

The main difficulty for those who stutter is pronouncing the first sound in a word. When singing, the words seem to smoothly flow into each other and merge with the music. When a person listens to others sing, he tries to get in time. At the same time, unnecessary accents in speech are smoothed out.

Experts have proven that mild stuttering can be eliminated completely. But provided that the person sings regularly. There are known facts where, all over the world, children with mild forms of stuttering were successfully treated with the help of choral singing. Therefore, the main thing here is regularity of classes.

Let's hit depression with a song

Since ancient times, the positive role of singing - both solo and choral - in the treatment of nervous and mental illnesses has been known. For example, depression, which is still common today.

Even in Ancient Greece, choral singing was practiced as a remedy for insomnia, and Aristotle and Pythagoras claimed that it was very useful for mental disorders. Knowledge about this was also known in Ancient Tibet: the monks there still recommend singing to cure nervous diseases. True, this knowledge was mostly at the level of intuition. People in ancient times only guessed such a healing potential in singing, but did not have the opportunity to substantiate it scientifically.

Singing is useful in any case. Even if a person thinks that nature has deprived him of a voice and an ear for music. The ability to express your inner world in music and song is an effective means of relieving internal tension and stress.

A fact that needs no proof: when a person sings, he is in a positive and friendly mood. Even if he is sad or has experienced grief, singing brings tangible relief.

Everyone loves to sing. Young children are happy to make up “songs” on the fly or pick up a tune without really thinking about getting into tune. Adults are most often shy, afraid to show their lack of talent in this area, and in vain: singing is very good for health.

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Doctors knew that vocal exercises had a positive effect on the body back in ancient times. In recent decades, most of these assumptions have received scientific confirmation. Today we decided to tell readers about the benefits of singing.

Liver healing

The effect of singing on the liver and other internal organs is due to the vibration created by sound waves. It has been experimentally established that only a fifth of these waves are directed outward, and 80% of the vibrations penetrate into the body and stimulate the functioning of the abdominal organs. When a person sings, the diaphragm intensively rises and falls, and these movements contribute to a kind of massage of the liver, gall bladder and intestines. As a result, the outflow of bile increases, digestion is optimized, the likelihood of developing stagnant processes is reduced, and the removal of toxins from the body is activated.

Protection from stress

In Ancient Egypt, insomnia and nervous agitation were treated with the help of choral singing. Music still helps doctors today working with patients who suffer from mental disorders, emotional instability, migraines, neuroses, depression and phobias. Singing is useful for correcting stuttering and other speech disorders.

When a person sings, his brain intensively produces endorphins, called joy hormones. Singing increases vitality, enhances the ability to concentrate, and increases physical and intellectual activity.

Treatment of respiratory diseases

Systematic vocal training trains the diaphragm and the muscles responsible for the movement of the ribs during breathing, and optimizes the process of ventilation of the lungs. Proper singing requires a quick inhalation and a slow, gradual exhalation. This increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood, which helps activate the immune system. A person becomes more resistant to seasonal colds.

Recently, doctors have become interested in using singing to treat ailments such as chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and bronchial asthma.

Increasing tone and prolonging life

It is no coincidence that there are many long-lived opera singers: the first thing a future performer is taught is proper breathing and self-control. Without this, a person cannot withstand the many hours of stress associated with participating in a classical performance.

As a result, singers master the skills of regulating inhalation and exhalation, proper functioning of the diaphragm, their active lung volume increases, and their heart muscle strengthens. Similar results can be achieved with amateur singing; It is only important to approach the issue of voice production competently.