Listening to Music Slows Your Heart Rate Down

There are times when you may want to slow your heart rate down. That could be during meditation or maybe when you are hyper-stressed. There are many things you can do to slow down your heart rate. But did you realize one of the easiest things to do is listen to music?

Music has a physiological effect. It makes your heartbeat slower. This is a well-studied phenomenon, and hard to dispute. But why would this be? Why should music have such a powerful effect on a vital organ? One answer would be that slow heart rate is a side effect of the body’s preparation for action. For example, if you hear a lion, you want to be able to run away. But this is not the case: when people are listening to music they are mostly sitting still. And they can’t literally be preparing for action, because that requires them to predict the future, and music hasn’t yet happened.

It turns out that listening to music reduces your heart rate, increases your oxygen consumption, and alters your blood pressure. A study in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows that people who listen to music have healthier hearts than those who don’t. Music activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which slows down the heart rate. This is why music can help you relax, but if you’re already relaxed, it can calm you even further. Music also stimulates the production of endorphins, which are chemicals in your brain that reduce stress or pain.

To get the most out of music for reducing your heart rate, you may want to pick out some songs you like. Or maybe even make up your own. It’s important to pick music that’s slow and soft. You can tell how slow a song is by counting the beats per minute (bpm). Counting heartbeats is not hard, but it can be hard to count beats in a song because you don’t hear every beat it plays. It takes about three seconds for the sound of a beat to reach your ears, so if a song has a beat every second, you will hear the first beat as soon as it starts playing and the second one-two seconds later. If it has a beat every two seconds, you’ll hear the first beat as soon as it starts and the next one four seconds later.

Listening to music is a common coping strategy for dealing with anxiety, and it can make you feel as if you’re floating on air. However, if music isn’t your thing or does nothing for you, there are alternatives that can help you calm down as well. One way to slow down your heart rate and beat the stress is through gentle stretching. By stretching out your muscles, you’re allowing them to relax and become more flexible and less tense. This will help reduce the tension that may be building up in your body — including tension in your chest — which will then cause your heart rate to slow down over time.