According to research, meditation can alleviate anxiety, lower the risk of depression, enhance immunity, encourage better sleep, and protect the heart. After surgery, listening to music can improve mood, reduce pain and anxiety, and strengthen intellect and memory.

• Keep your heart safe

People who take medication had a lower risk of dying within five years or having a heart attack or stroke. By physiologically lowering heart rate, blood pressure, adrenaline, and the stress hormone cortisol, meditation helps lessen cardiovascular risk.

• Improve sleep

After six weeks of practicing mindfulness meditation, older adults who had problems sleeping reported less sleeplessness and exhaustion, according to a JAMA Medicine study. According to Harvard University researchers, mindfulness meditation, which emphasizes breathing and awareness of the present moment, improves sleep quality by making it simpler to elicit the body's relaxation response at night.

• Reduce pain

According to a study published in The Lancet, patients who listened to meditation music before, during, and after surgery experienced less anxiety and required less post-operative pain treatment.

• Increase immunity

According to a McGill University study, those who listen to music have higher levels of natural killer cells, an immune cell type that fights bacteria, contaminated cells, and malignant cells. Additionally, they had larger concentrations of Immunoglobulin A (IgA), an antibody that aids in infection prevention and is found in the digestive system and lungs.

• Boost mental clarity and memory

A Journal of Alzheimer's Disease study found that simple meditation or music-listening exercises significantly improved memory and cognitive performance in older persons who had some early indicators of cognitive deterioration after three months.

• Improve mood

According to a McGill University study, listening to music lifts your mood by generating dopamine, the brain chemical responsible for feelings of pleasure and reward. A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine suggests that mindfulness meditation may help patients with mild depression feel better, reduce their symptoms of depression, and reduce their chance of developing major depression.

• Reduce fear

A Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience study found that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety and that executive function and worry-controlling brain regions were active during the anxiety-relieving effects of meditation.