{"id":378,"date":"2018-04-18T05:33:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T05:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genesis-foundation.net\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2021-11-11T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:56:55","slug":"music-in-your-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genesis-foundation.net\/blog\/music-in-your-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Music is the song of the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re fresh off an invigorating long weekend spent at our annual fundraiser, the Kasauli Rhythm and Blues Festival 2018, which reinforced our belief that there are lots of giving hearts in the world, and we are so glad we got to celebrate this spirit of giving with the universal language of music. Prema Sagar, our Founder Trustee, in fact began this fund-raiser festival in order to bring music and people from different corners of the world together, who share a common love for music and philanthropy.<\/p>\n

To keep the music in our hearts going here\u2019s a list of Genesis Foundation\u2019s favourite songs with the word heart\/dil in it.<\/p>\n

In fact, there\u2019s even research to suggest that listening to music is good for your heart. Here\u2019s what the Harvard Heart Letter has to say,<\/p>\n

Music can make you laugh or cry, rile you up or calm you down. Some say it’s good for the soul. It just might be good for the heart, too. Make no mistake \u2014 daily doses of Mozart won’t clean out your arteries or fix a faulty heart valve. But music can help ease your recovery from a cardiac procedure, get you back to normal after a heart attack or stroke, relieve stress, and maybe even lower your blood pressure a tad.<\/p>\n

Music and healing once went hand in hand. The Chinese character for medicine includes the character for music. In ancient Greece, music was used to ease stress, promote sleep, and soothe pain. Native Americans and Africans used singing and chanting as part of their healing rituals.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Western medicine, the connection was gradually broken when the art of medicine gave way to the science of medicine. It’s slowly being restored as music therapists demonstrate the value of music for treating people with everything from Alzheimer’s disease to chronic pain and substance abuse problems. Since 1980, researchers have turned their attention to the effects of music on the cardiovascular system. Most have looked at single variables, such as changes in blood pressure, heart rate, or blood flow through arteries. A few have looked at more holistic effects.
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Hope you find a few new songs, a few old ones, in here and you find it in your heart to save a little heart. Happy listening!<\/p>\n

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  1. Prema Sagar, Founder Trustee, picked What a Wonderful World, which though directly doesn\u2019t allude to the heart, talks of all the love in it, which is after all its most major function. What a wonderful world indeed it would be, the more hearts we save!\n