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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Rihanna Drops Super Sexy New Music Video For ‘Kiss It Better’ — Watch


Rihanna highly anticipated new video for her brand new single "Kiss It Better" dropped on March 31 and we smell a Grammy nomination in the future. 



It is finally here and it is as sexy as ever! Rihanna, Queen of music video, absolutely slays in her new music video for 'Kiss It Better' and we seriously can't get enough of her sultry vocals and seductive moves.  We also get rihanna covered in lingering as she plays with dice.  The entire video focuses on her making seductive and sexy hand moves with her body.



Kiss It Better is her second single from her #1 platinum album #ANTI and being released along side with Needed Me as concurrent singles. Both were serviced to radio platforms on 30 March at 7 am and a rumored has surfaced that a video for Needed Me is on the way,
Watch the sexy video below on Vevo.

Watch Beyonce New Video For Ivy Park


Big news today for the bey hives: Queen Bey is officially launching her own fashion line which will featured her very own bey-originals not a collaboration line. 



The name of the line is IVY PARK and the goods won't actually be available on Bey's website- instead you'll be able to purchase the designs at Net a Porter, Top Shop and Nordstrom.
Bey also announced the news on Instagram, captioning @weareivypark







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Top 10 Obnoxious Ways The Rich Spend Their Money


The aristocratic elite often live differently from the rest of the wage earning world like you and me. From buying their way to become members of secret wine cults to paying some brilliant sap to turn their poop into gold, join us as we take a peek into the eccentric lives of the affluent well-to-do’s, our fellow well-to-don’t’s.


10. They Have Their Own Fancy Version of Ebay



The filthy rich use boutique online marketplaces to trade and sell luxury items. We’re talking real-estate, sports cars, yachts and once in a lifetime experiences like your own private tour of the Antarctic peninsula. Sites like jamesedition.com and dupontregistry.com vend only high-end merchandise that would make the average person’s wallet shrivel up and die.

9. They Drink Spirits That Have Been Poured Over Naked Models
That’s right, there’s such a thing as liquors that are bottled after being poured over the naked bodies of glamour models. G Spirits is a German distillery that peddles high-end vodka, whiskey, and rum with an unusual selling point. Not only are they fine spirits – single malt whiskey, sextuple distilled vodka, 11 year old rum – they come with a guarantee that these divine drops have trickled gently over the hills and valleys of stunning women. Who says the rich are eccentric?


8. They Don't Leave The House To Withdraw Money



Brooklyn Nets forward DeShawn Stevenson installed an ATM in his kitchen for when he can’t be bothered to leave the house to make a withdrawl. According to the New York Post, Stevenson reportedly paid $3,500 for the machine. The personal cash dispenser gets refilled 4-6 times per year and holds up to $20,000 at any one time. He charges his friends and family a $4.50 fee to use the ATM. When he felt he had to defend his flippant folly, he tweeted: ‘For the record, I had to get that ATM cause we used to roll dice nonstop and I was sick of loaning people money!’ 


7. They Join Secret Wine Fraternities

When you’ve got so much money that you have no shot at spending it in your lifetime, all that’s left is to join a cult-like wine club. The Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, translating to ‘Fraternity of Knights of the Wine-Tasting Cup,’ is an exclusive fellowship devoted entirely to expensive Burgundy wine. It boasts chapters worldwide, with its members coming from society’s elite: politicians, businessmen, luminaries, doctors, military leaders and athletes.
The exclusive organisation holds elaborate dinners that can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, all showcasing rare and expensive Burgundy wines. New members must be referred and pay an undisclosed initiation fee, followed by $1800 in dues, and must host of one of the aforementioned lavish dinners.

6. They Have Kidnapping Insurance

Being incredibly rich has its perks,  but it also comes with considerable danger. Whether you own a coveted slot in the top one percent or just happen to have an overburdened wallet, there’s a chance you’ll attract the attention of some unsavory characters looking to cash in on your ransom.  For exorbitant fees, insurance firms can monitor their clients and respond to any threatening situation.
One such firm, Special Contingency Risks (SCR), offers protection to its clients through the expertise of ex-special forces soldiers and at least one former spy. They keep a close eye on their clients from what’s known as ‘the farmhouse,’ a state of the art intelligence hub that can deploy the use of a ‘black book’ of international contacts such as private security firms to aid the client in danger.


5. They've Got The Midas Touch


When the filthy rich aren’t busy being CEO’s who are making big deals while chartering private jets or poppin’ bottles in the VIP section of clubs you’ve never even heard of, they’re most likely taking big, golden dumps. Yep, there’s a 24 karat pill that will make your poop shiny and golden. Costing $425 per capsule, these auric solubles will turn anyone into the goose that laid the golden egg.

4. Sixty Six Of Them Have Unlimited Air Travel


In 1981, American Airlines offered those who were cash endowed a chance to have unlimited air travel. For just US$250,000, one could fly all over America at a moment’s notice for the rest of their life. That was a bargain back then, because by 2004 the price tag had risen to US$3 million. Worse (or better in a snide way for us lowly peons), AA has since stopped accepting new members for the foreseeable future. There are only 66 people in the world who still hold the exclusive fly-all-you-want pass.


3. They Buy Exotic Pets


Owning a dog or cat is so blasé. For the rich and famous, even their pets have to make a statement. Rare and exotic beasts can cost a fortune in maintenance and licenses, but hey, it sure beats going to the zoo, right? Mike Tyson’s three Royal Bengal tigers cost him US$4000 per month in upkeep, while Nicolas Cage spent a staggering US$150,000 on an octopus that he claims helps him with his acting skills (which we have to admit explains a lot).

2. They Buy Ridiculous Expensive Art


You can’t truly call yourself an elitist, rich snob until you’ve phoned in a last minute auction bid to Christies in New York. Outrageous sums of money change hands in the blink of an eye as wealthy, often anonymous buyers, vie for a Rothco or Cezanne. In fact, the most expensive piece of art ever sold was Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin. It went for a mind-melting US$300 million to an unknown buyer. Word on the street is that the State of Qatar purchased it.

1. They Leave Earth


Space tourism is the act of leaving earth in a spacecraft for recreational, leisure or business purposes. During 2001-2009, seven wealthy space tourists made eight flights to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The flights were brokered by interstellar tourism firm Space Adventures for a cool US$20-40 million. 

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Rihanna Next Single From ANTI is ........



Rihanna just announced her next single from her #1 platinum album #ANTI is #KissITBetter and #NeededMe. They will be both be serviced all radio platforms on the 30/03 and an accompanied music video for kiss it better will dropped on thursday at Noon on Vevo.





You can download the #NeededMe and #KissitBetter on itunes down below

Download on TIDAL: http://smarturl.it/downloadANTI
Download on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/i_dlx_ANTI
Download on Google Play: http://smarturl.it/ANTIdlxgp
Download on Amazon: http://geni.us/amzANTI 
Stream on TIDAL: http://smarturl.it/streamANTIdlx





Listen to #NeededMe with Lyrics Down below


Listen to  #Kissitbetter with Lyrics down below

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Repentance, Forgiveness and The Gift of The Holy Spirit



Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him." And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation." So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Hebrews 4:12 says that "the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." The Word of God is a piercing, two-edged sword that lays open the true condition of the heart! Paul says, "Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Ephesians 6:17). The reason the Word of God can have such power to lay open the heart is because it the sword of the Spirit. It is not man's sword. It does not merely have man's endorsement, or man's power behind it. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of truth. The true word of God is his Word, and he loves it and honors it and empowers it.


What Is the Need That the People Sense?

Before we look at the answer that Peter gives, let's ask what the need is? When the people say, "What must I do?" it's clear that they feel a need. They are saying, "I need something. What must I do to get it?" Peter gives two explicit answers in verse 38 to what they need—what we need.
He says they need forgiveness and they need the gift of the Holy Spirit. "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins [that's need #1]; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit [that's need #2]." Let's take these one at a time and think about them.

The Need for Forgiveness from God 

First, there is the need to be forgiven by God.

The Need for the Gift of the Holy Spirit

The second need, Peter says, is to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Verse 38: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins [the first need]; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit [the second need]."
What does it mean to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? Is this a promise of being baptized in the Spirit (1:5) or being filled with the Spirit (2:4) or being empowered by the Spirit (1:8;Luke 24:49); or being indwelt by the Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19)? The longer I meditate on those alternatives the less I see reasons in the text to choose between them. My answer would be simply this: If you truly repent and are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will be given to you, and will make a difference in your life. From that day on you will have the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9). And nothing is said here in Acts 2:38 to limit the various ways in which he may manifest himself in your life.
All it says is that from the day of your repentance and your identification with Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will be at work in your life as a gift. From the first day of your faith you can know he is yours because of this promise in Acts 2:38. And from that day on you can begin to seek his extraordinary empowerings (Luke 24:49Acts 1:8) and fillings (Acts 4:31Ephesians 3:19) and gifts (Acts 2:171 Corinthians 14:1).
These are the two great needs that we all have. The first is to be forgiven—to have all the violations and offenses and transgressions and disobedience and sins cancelled out. "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow!" (Isaiah 1:18). And the second need is to have God himself come into our lives where sin once reigned. We need a personal relationship with God through his Spirit. We need wisdom and guidance and love and joy and peace and patience and goodness and self-control. And we need extraordinary power for the task of local and world evangelization. We need the gift of the Holy Spirit.

"What Shall We Do?"

Finally, what is the answer to the question of verse 37: "What shall we do?" What shall we do so that our sins will be forgiven and we can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit?
Verse 38 gives the answer: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ." Let's consider these two things one at a time, first repentance, then baptism in the name of Jesus.

Repent

Repentance is not just regret. They had already been cut to the heart (v. 3). And now Peter says, "Repent!" So repentance is more than feeling sorry. It means following through on that conviction and turning around—changing your mind and your heart so that you are no longer at odds with God but in sync with God. Jesus spoke to Paul in Acts 26:18 about this "turning" that leads to forgiveness and gave Paul his commission with these words, "I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins." There it is. That is repentance: turning from darkness to light and from Satan to God. It is a reversal of the direction of your life—toward God.
That is the first answer to the question, "What shall we do?" Repent.

Be Baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ

The second answer in verse 38 is, "Be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ."
There is a great mistake we want to avoid at this point. Some groups teach that water baptism is not only a proper act of obedience and an expression of faith, but is also part of the essential means by which God forgives sin. Faith is not enough to gain forgiveness. You must be baptized with water before you can be forgiven. What shall we make of that?
Well, verse 38 certainly could mean that when it says, "Repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins." But it might also mean something like this: "Receive the forgiveness of your sins by repenting and by believing in the name of Jesus Christ, which you signify through baptism." That would mean that the name of Jesus and faith in that name is the essential means of receiving forgiveness, and baptism is the external expression of faith in the name of Jesus.
I conclude from these texts and others as well that the essential means of receiving the forgiveness of sins and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit is the decisive two-sided spiritual act: repentance and belief in the name of Jesus. Baptism, then, is the outward expression of this repentance and faith. Before he left the earth, Jesus commanded us to make disciples by calling for a public act of faith—an open identification with Jesus in his death and burial and resurrection. And so in the New Testament believing in Christ and being baptized are very closely related. This is the New Testament way to follow Christ: repent, believe, and express that in baptism.

God Is Ready to Forgive You and Give You His Spirit

Now let me close by reminding you of the almost unbelievable good news in this text. It shows us that even if you are a murderer of the Son of God (v. 36), God himself stands ready to forgive you! And not only to forgive you but to give you his Spirit! In other words he is willing to cancel all your debts and then come and live with you, and guide you, and change you, and empower you.
And for this you cannot work. It cannot be earned, or bought. It is a free gift to all who repent—who turn from darkness to light—and call on the name of the Lord.

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10 Great Things You Can Donate Besides Money


Charitable giving isn’t just about sharing wealth or the personal possessions you’ve accumulated. Turns out, the most valuable contributions you can make to the less fortunate don’t hinge on your ability to earn, save, or give money generously—in fact, money would be a poor substitute for the things people really need from you. Below are 10 charitable donations you can make that won’t lighten your wallet and don’t require your demise, but are beyond value to those who receive them.


10. Blood


The importance of blood is fairly well-understood these days, but people still underestimate just how hard it is to keep hospitals well-stocked with the shining red juice of life. After all, everyone has blood—how hard can it be to convince a few people to share it?
Turns out, really goddamn hard, thanks in part to overly strict rules governing eligibility and deferral. See, a lot of well-meaning people receive deferrals based on life events (like drunkenly opting to get your BFF’s nickname scrawled across your lower back in some seedy tattoo parlor), traveling to areas at risk for certain diseases (pretty much anywhere more than 50 miles from a McDonalds), or simply taking aspirin before showing up to donate. These deferrals are rarely lifetime bans, but that doesn’t stop would-be donors from avoiding the blood mobile forever after. There is actually an ongoing shortage of viable donors, compounded by misinformation, a lack of ethnic diversity, and even sheer laziness from those who have donated before, but simply don’t bother trying again after getting temporarily deferred.

9. Poop

There’s something inherently comical about poop—that is, until yours isn’t coming out correctly…either too fast or not or at all. And with the wide-spread incidence of digestive disorders, from irritable bowel to Crohn’s, and even obscure infections like Clostridium difficile, poop turns decidedly unfunny or even deadly for several hundred thousand people every year.
One promising form of treatment is known as Fecal Microbiota Transplant, whereby a donor’s healthy poop gets strained, added to a solution, and given to a matching patient. It works similarly to taking probiotics, only healthy poop is packed more fully with good digestive bacteria than any yogurt Jamie Lee Curtis ever dreamed of, and gets taken right to where it is needed most, rather than slowly being digested and broken down on its way to the colon. Although still considered an experimental procedure, the treatment has been documented as far back as ancient China, and current procedures boast more than a 90% effectiveness rate, so insurance providers are beginning to cover the procedure for patients—though not necessarily for donors. Still, can you put a price on life-saving stool? This is your chance to literally give a shit.

8. Tumors

You don’t have to wait until death to donate your parts to science. That is, if you have a little extra part growing somewhere in or on your person. As part of the ongoing effort to understand and better fight mankind’s most worthy adversary, Cancer researchers are in constant need of samples—particularly, from malignant tumors. Despite the frequency of the various Cancer diagnoses, it is ridiculously difficult for researchers to access enough tissue samples to do their jobs effectively: either doctors destroy tissue samples without asking patients first, or patients concerned about their privacy opt not to contribute their Cancerous leftovers. Oh, and receiving treatment can ruin the viability of tumors for research, meaning that patients not actively battling Cancer make the best donors.
Unfortunately, patients who lose their battles with Cancer are often ineligible to donate their organs, and it is not always possible to utilize (or even locate) the tissue where the Cancer originated—another key to researching the disease. So planning ahead to spare a tumor at the first opportunity may be the only way to support this cause.
7. Hugs
That’s right. You can start making the world a better place by donating your hugs—not indiscriminately, you pervert!—but specifically to service animals in-training. See, man’s best friend has proven capable not just of sniffing out bombs and drugs, but of making a significant quality of life boost for blind, autistic, diabetic, agoraphobic, depressed, handicapped, post-traumatic survivors, and even college students stressed about finals. The list is so long that demand is basically permanently ahead of supply, and breeding dogs that can actually operate as service animals is a little more precise than just locking Lady and Tramp in garage for the weekend and waiting for magic.
Part of the process of getting young pups prepared for their life of service and companionship is socialization: that is, getting used to interacting with all sorts of different people. The more socialization they have growing up, the more capable they will eventually be of bonding with (and serving) their eventual companion. What this amounts to for you is a constant demand from puppies for your hugs. As they get older, this can also entail walking and other more sophisticated forms of interaction, but when future service dogs are at their youngest, floppiest, and goofiest, they need your hugs to prepare them for missions of life-saving service and derring-do.

6. Your Genome

Your kindergarten teacher was right after all: you are a beautiful and unique snowflake. And nobody appreciates your uniqueness more than the geneticists trying to study the human genome to better understand how to make medicine better. The idea is that, instead of double-blind studies that produce medicine that works more than half of the time at best, why not use data science to analyze what makes people sick—and healthy again—at the genetic level? This latest effort to slap death in the face is called the Precision Medicine Initiative, a national effort to record and analyze the genes of more than a million people.
Already, limited production of genomic-targeting cancer medication has proven successful. To make it affordable and more broadly practical, the scale of the study needs to increase. In order for the sample to be truly useful, everyone—not just one ethnicity, not just chronic disease sufferers, not just the pretty ones, but everyone—is a potential donor. This way, America will have a genomic map of everything from sickle cell anemia to male pattern baldness, and can begin coming up with treatments designed at the genetic level to provide treatment.

5. Your Voice

Are you literate? Trick question, you’re reading this! And with that, we know you have what it takes to provide an invaluable service to the blind and vision-impaired residents of wherever you live. While high-tech innovations are constantly emerging, sometimes the simpler things still just take a human touch. And considering the ballooning population of elderly people around the world who are accustomed to reading the paper before shot gunning hard candy and making casually racists observations, there is a high (and growing) demand for people willing and able to read things out loud.
In some areas, this just means volunteering to show up consistently and read whatever is handed to you; some cities actually streamline the process by distributing recordings of someone reading the daily paper among those who sign up for the service. Whether you are hoping to jump-start your career as a voice actor, or simply appreciate that not everything on the internet gets instantly converted to braille, you have the opportunity to help countless individuals stay connected with a world they can no longer see, just by reading aloud in person or into a microphone.

4. Marrow

While you may pity-tip Santa on your way into Walmart at Christmas, and assure wheelbarrow-toting Girl Scouts that you ‘bought at the office’ and can’t afford any more cookies, there is no cash-substitute for bone marrow. In the popular imagination, marrow extraction is the most painful experience possible outside of childbirth. In reality, most of the time it looks pretty much the same as donating blood.
Roughly 70% of the time, donating marrow is actually done through peripheral blood stem cells. The donor gets a drug that stimulates their healthy marrow to work overtime, until it spills into the regular blood stream, and is sucked out through the veins—just like regular old blood. For the other 30% of patients who need just a little more love, marrow extraction (and transplant, for that matter) involves sliding a needle into the hip bone; despite the use of topical anesthesia, that still tends to smart for a while. Rumor has inflated the trauma(and ignored the more common method) but between the fear and the promise of at least some pain, hospitals have such a hard time getting donors to sit through the process of giving marrow. This is compounded by the difficulty of finding a viable donor; marrow carries all the safety preconditions of donating blood, but without the ease and painless simplicity of making a fist for an hour before getting free cookies and juice. The database of potential donors is so limited, there is only a 1 in 540 chance of actually going through either procedure; so simply signing up can make a difference in leveling the playing field for blood cancer patients.

3. Urine

Forget soda cans and beer bottles—taking a whiz is the next big thing in recycling. Thechemical uses of urine are well-documented throughout history; modern entrepreneurs are just scaling the science a little for more contemporary uses, and finding ways to make going go further. For example, Dutch scientists ran a project to collect the urine of pregnant women to study fertility—and make money selling an extract as a weight-loss supplement.
More upstanding environmentalists in Vermont have spearheaded a project to fight the military industrial complex by manufacturing all-natural fertilizer from donated urine. And down under, some boozy Aussies took the recycling concept to its ultimate extreme by crafting beer from barley watered with whiz collected at a music festival. The practice isn’t just about novelty—Texans contending with a severe drought combatted climate change with a plan to redirect wastewater that normally just got sent downstream. With a little research and good timing, it is becoming increasingly popular and possible to answer the call of nature in more ways than one—by donating number one.

2. Hair

Not all tissue donations have to be juicy and gross. Donating hair is a painless, needle and scalpel-free way to share something most people take for granted with patients (often children) who can’t grow their own. Given the cosmetic importance (and sometimes,MacGyver-esque practicality) of hair in most cultures, losing one’s hair can be a devastating compounding feature to dealing with a debilitating illness or its treatment. That is whycharities have sprung up across the U.S. to help connect people willing to shave their heads with patients who have lost their hair for medical reasons.
That doesn’t mean just anyone can start saving their clippings; depending on the charity, the minimum lengths accepted range from eight to 12 inches, and generally they prefer hair that isn’t chemically treated, so no perms or wacky coloring jobs. But for those willing to commit a few months to ponytails, this is a powerful, painless way to uplift a vulnerable group of people.

1. Stem Cells

Not to be confused with the peripheral stem cells in marrow, stem cells are a much-needed, much-maligned subject in medicine. These guys are right at the footsteps of the definition of life debate, because they come from fertilized eggs (often when it has been determined that genetic defects are present and make the embryos unviable). They are also the best place for scientists to study how cellular development occurs from the beginning—including how congenital defects and diseases manifest and possibly can be prevented.
Not to be confused with the peripheral stem cells in marrow, stem cells are a much-needed, much-maligned subject in medicine. These guys are right at the footsteps of the definition of life debate, because they come from fertilized eggs (often when it has been determined that genetic defects are present and make the embryos unviable). They are also the best place for scientists to study how cellular development occurs from the beginning—including how congenital defects and diseases manifest and possibly can be prevented.

Sunday, March 13, 2016

10 Amazing Proven Health Benefits of Music


Music has been an integral part of human civilization for over 55,000 years and continues to be an important aspect of almost every culture on Earth. It’s so dominant that for many people, their life would be empty without their melodies. At the most basic level, music is just a series of sounds. But research has found it’s much more profound than us hearing noise. Music can have some amazing effects on both your mind and your body.


10. It Reduces Stress


One of the most well known benefits of listening to music is that it reduces stress. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to support this and probably anyone who is reading this can remember a time in their life when they were stressed out and felt better after listening to a song or an album. But why does music have such a drastic effect on someone’s stress level?
One reason comes down to cortisol, which is a hormone that’s released when someone is stressed out. A high level of cortisol isn’t good for the body and is linked to a number of issues, including problems with memory and concentration as well as weight gain. It’s linked to depression, heart disease, and any other problems related to stress that are believed to stem from high cortisol levels.
Music effects stress because it has the amazing ability to lower cortisol levels, which decreases the feeling of stress in the body. The key to relieving stress through music is simply to follow your own natural urges; pick music that you love and fits your mood.

9. It Helps With Depression

Music can have a profound effect on depression. It’s been found to aid in the treatment of depression by having sufferers play an instrument or sing, and can also help people with depression if they simply listen.
For example, researchers at Queen’s University Belfast got a group of 128 youths who were all being treated for emotional, developmental, or behavioral problems. Half of them received the usual care, and the other half were given that same care, along with music therapy. The researchers found that the students taking the music therapy had their self-esteem improve greatly and their depression drop significantly.
On the other end of the age spectrum, it’s been shown to decrease both anxiety and depression in people over the age of 65. So if you’re having a rough day, turn up your favorite song and belt out the words. You might be surprised at how good you feel.

8. It Helps People Sleep

In order to see how music effects sleeping habits, researchers at the University of Taiwan gathered a group of 60 elderly people with sleeping problems. The 60 seniors were given the choice of listening to slow, soft music, or nothing at all for 45 minutes before bedtime. The results were that in the first week, the people who listened to the music reported 26% improvement, and that eventually rose to 35%. They found that they slept better and longer, and also felt better the next day.
The music they used was about 60-80 beats-per-minute, which is stuff like contemporary jazz or folk. The reason is that the music helped lower the people’s heart and respiratory rate. So next time you’re having problems sleeping, just throw on some James Taylor or Diana Krall before you’re going to bed. If you don’t hate that type of stuff, it should mellow you out enough to sleep.

7. It Helps With Vascular Health

While music does reduce stress and help with other parts of the brain, researchers weren’t sure if it causes any physical change in the body. Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center decided to see how music impacts the endothelium function of the body. The endothelium function forms the linings of blood cells; the better the endothelium function works, the healthier the vascular system.
During the study, they had participants listen to joyful music as well as music meant to provoke anxiety. The participants also watched a video that would make them laugh, and another that would make them feel relaxed. Then they measured the flow mediated dilation (FMD), which measures the endothelium function. They found that the joyful music raised the FMD by 26 percent, which was higher than anything else. Laughter made it rise by 19 percent, while it was an 11 percent increase for the relaxation video.
The conclusion is that joyful music may be good for your heart, your veins, and your blood vessels. So don’t let anyone give you a hard time for still liking “Happy” by Pharrell Williams; you’re just trying to be healthy.

6. It Helps With Diet And Execise

Good news for those trying to lose weight: one way to help keep the calorie level down and give you an edge in exercising may just come from listening to the right music.
In order to see how music can affect eating habits, two researchers from Cornell University took over a Hardee’s fast food restaurant. They gave half the restaurant a makeover to make it look like a fine-dining restaurant, which included playing slow jazz music, while the other half of the restaurant was left looking like a normal Hardee’s. The researchers originally thought that the people in the fine-dining area would eat more because they would linger around longer and might be bored. However, they found the people in the fine-dining area actually ate less and enjoyed their food more. This means that if you want to eat less and get more enjoyment from your food, simply put on some slow, soft music while you eat.
Not only does music help with dieting, but it’s also incredibly helpful when it comes to exercising as well. A number of studies have been done on the connections between music and exercise. Some findings conclude that it helps people ignore fatigue and pain, improves mood, increases endurance, and it may also help with the metabolism’s efficiency. As for picking which music is the best for exercising, it’s important to keep it personal. For example, songs that evoke memories are useful. Also, if you can identify with the singer’s viewpoint or emotional state, it can be incredibly beneficial. It’s not about picking songs that are fast or up-tempo; it’s about picking songs that make you move.

5. It Helps With Stroke Victims

A study from the University of Helsinki looked at patients who had just suffered a stroke and were recovering. They randomly assigned patients what they would listen to for a few hours every day: music, audio books, or nothing at all. The researchers found that, compared to the patients that listened to the audio books or nothing, the people who listened to music had their verbal memory and focused attention recover better. Also, their demeanor was more positive and they were less confused.
Another interesting finding in the study is that when it came to verbal memory, 60 percent of the group that listened to music improved after three months, but the group that listened to audio books only saw about a 19 percent improvement. The doctors believe that words are not enough to help, but words with music can be incredibly beneficial in helping repair the brain.

4. It Aids In The Development Of Children

Even at a young age, children can be helped by music. One study from York University in Toronto, Canada found that after just one month of music lessons, out of 24 participantswho were between the ages of four and six, 90% showed improvement in verbal intelligence. Another study from Harvard University found that by training children in music, it also helps with the development of auditory discrimination, fine motor skills, vocabulary, and nonverbal reasoning.
In fact, music training has even been known to help children who don’t yet walk or talk. A study at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, found that one-year-old babies who participate in music classes with their parents smile more, communicate better, and show earlier and more sophisticated brain responses to music.

3. It Keeps Your Mind Sharp

For some people who took music lessons as a child, it may have seemed like a torturous ordeal and a waste of time. The good news is that if you were one of those people, or are someone who is currently forcing a child to learn to play an instrument, the training may have long-term positive effects on the human brain. A study from Northwestern University found that the more musical training someone had as a child the sharper his or her mind was as a senior adult. For the study, they took a group of 44 adults between the ages of 55 and 76, who had studied music between the ages of four and 14, but had quit and had not played in at least 40 years.
The researchers recorded the brain activity of the participants in the area of the brain where sound is processed and they found that the participants with more musical trainingresponded faster to speech. Although it is important to point out that it was only about a millisecond faster and that may not sound like a lot, but the brain is a sharp tool and it is sensitive to timing. If one millisecond is compounded over millions of neurons, it can have drastic effects on the lives of seniors.
The researchers believe that the study will hopefully encourage more musical training for children and it will also justify parents sending their children out of the house for music lessons for a few hours every week.

2. It Reduces Pain

Researchers at the Pain Research Center at the University of Utah found that if people actively listen to music that they enjoy, they can reduce acute pain. This type of pain would be felt in situations like post-surgery or at the dentist.
In the study, they gave participants an electric shock and found that when listening to music, it decreased pain levels by 17 percent. It was twice as effective for people who have high anxiety. The reason music reduces pain is because a lot of the pathways in the brain that process music are the same ones that process pain. So when you listen to music you enjoy, it will create emotional responses that will compete with the pain, which means there are fewer resources for the body to compute the hurt.

1. It Improves Immune System

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada looked at 400 papers on music and neuroscience. One of the things they found was that music can help the body’s immune system. They found evidence that when people listen to music their body has an increase in immunoglobulin A, which is an antibody that plays an important part in the mucous system. Immunoglobulin A is also a natural killer cell count, which are cells that attack germs and bacteria that are invading.
Essentially, this means that just by listening to Taylor Swift you could be improving your immune system and keeping yourself healthy. Go ahead and use that as an excuse if you ever feel like shaking it off.