Singing for asthma. Modern scientific experiments and expert opinion

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Psychologists say that the best way to improve the quality of your life is to simply start enjoying it. Skillfully selected music has a positive effect on the purposeful activity of a person, contributing to such a rhythmic tuning of the body, in which physiological processes proceed more efficiently. Even just listening to music changes a person's mood. Some works calm and pacify, others cheer up. Melodious, quiet, moderately slow, minor music has a calming effect. Psychotherapists often began to use music for treatment, and quite often you can hear musical works in the offices of dentists. Positive emotional experiences with the sound of pleasant melodies enhance attention, activate the emotional central nervous system and stimulate intellectual activity.

Since the time of the most ancient civilizations, people have known the healing power of the sounds uttered by their own voice. Modern medicine has long drawn attention to the fact that singing, especially professional vocal training, has a beneficial effect on human health. Singing is the very necessary tool that allows you to find not only the joy of life, but also significantly improve your health. According to the figurative expression of scientists, the larynx is the second heart of a person. The voice, recovering in the process of vocal training, heals the entire body. Pregnant women are advised to listen to classical music more, calm lullabies are recommended to be sung by expectant mothers themselves. It is useful not only to listen to music, but it is even more useful to sing yourself, because while singing, sound frequencies activate the development of the child, affecting his brain.

Singing helps relieve stress. Scientists have found that while singing, endorphins are produced in the brain, a substance due to which a person feels joy, peace, good mood and increased vitality. Thus, with the help of singing, one can evoke and express certain feelings. With the help of singing, you can put your lungs in order, improve blood circulation and complexion, correct your posture, improve diction and conversational speech, even correct such a defect as stuttering.

Singing is especially important for children. The impact of singing on a child's health cannot be overestimated. Working with the child's vocal apparatus, the teacher acts to improve the health of his student. It is no coincidence that there are so many children's choirs in our country. In almost every school they try to organize a choir, since collective singing is not only beneficial for health, but also the formation of friendly relations. Children engaged in singing differ from their peers in positive emotionality, self-sufficiency. Satisfaction with doing business is the stimulation of a good mood, and the lack of desire to search for any other stimulants and search for dangerous pleasures, including drugs.

Vibration and overtones.

The voice given to a person from birth is a unique musical instrument. A person's voice always vibrates when it is played, even if the person is shouting or talking in a whisper. The vibration of the voice has a very positive effect on the human body. When our voice sounds, each sound is accompanied by vibrations of higher frequencies - overtones. Here the role is played by the close proximity of the larynx, in which vibrations occur, and the brain. Overtones resonate with the bones of the skull and with the brain responsible for the immune system. Thanks to this, immunity is stimulated, and a singing child catches a cold much less than a child deprived of this activity.

A trained child's voice covers a frequency range of approximately 70 to 3000 vibrations per second. These vibrations permeate the entire body of a singing student, improve blood circulation, and help cleanse cells. A wide range of human voice vibration frequencies improves blood circulation in vessels of any diameter. High frequencies promote blood microcirculation in the capillaries, and low frequencies promote blood flow in the veins and arteries.

Singing and our internal organs.

Vocal is a unique means of self-massage of internal organs, which contributes to their functioning and healing. Scientists believe that each of the internal human organs has its own specific vibration frequency. With a disease, the frequency of the organ becomes different, as a result of which there is a discord in the work of the whole organism. By singing, a person may well influence a diseased organ, returning a healthy vibration. The fact is that when a person sings, only 20% of the sound is sent to the outer space, and 80% inside, to our body, forcing our organs to work more intensively. Sound waves, falling into the resonant frequencies corresponding to a particular organ, cause its maximum vibration, exerting a direct impact on this organ.

During singing, the diaphragm actively works, thereby massaging the liver and preventing stagnation of bile. At the same time, the functioning of the abdominal organs and intestines improves. The reproduction of some vowels makes the tonsils and glands vibrate and helps to cleanse the body of toxins. There are sounds that can completely restore blood circulation and eliminate congestion. This sound therapy practice has long been known and is still used in India and China.

"A" - helps relieve pain of various origins, heals the heart and upper lobes of the lungs, helps with paralysis and respiratory diseases, has a powerful effect on the entire body, contributing to the saturation of tissues with oxygen.

"I" - helps in the treatment of eyes, ears, small intestines. “Cleans” the nose, stimulates the work of the heart.

"O" - treats cough, bronchitis, tracheitis, inflammation of the lungs, relieves spasms and pain, alleviates the course of pulmonary tuberculosis.

"U" - improves breathing, stimulates the kidneys, heals the throat and vocal cords, as well as all organs located in the abdomen.

"Y" - helps in the treatment of ears, improves breathing.

"E" - improves brain function.

Consonants.

The healing power of some consonants has been scientifically proven.

"B", "H", "M" - improve the functioning of the brain.

"K", "Sch" - help in the treatment of ears.

"X" - frees the body from waste substances and negative energy, improves breathing.

"C" - helps in the treatment of the intestines, is useful for the heart, blood vessels, 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, loving, without shrinking from fear or indignation.

“UH”, “OH”, “AH” - stimulate the release of waste substances and negative energy from the body.

These sounds must not only be pronounced, they must be sung. Be sure to pay attention to the intensity with which the sounds are sung. If a cardiovascular disease occurs, then you should not do the exercise too intensely; if abdominal therapy is necessary - on the contrary, the more intensive, the better.

Singing and respiratory organs.

The art of singing is, first of all, the art of proper breathing, which is the most important factor in our health. Diaphragmatic breathing, respiratory muscles are trained, lung drainage improves. With bronchial asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis, the sympathetic system is overexcited. Inhalation and the subsequent inhalation delay affect the sympathetic part of the nervous system, which is responsible for activating the internal organs. There are methods of treating bronchial asthma by teaching singing and in the choir practice of many teachers - choir teachers there were cases of a complete cessation of asthma attacks in sick children, and when, with a diagnosis of "bronchial asthma", doctors directly send a child to sing in the choir, this has not caused any problems for a long time. who is surprised. Singing not only relieves an attack of bronchial asthma, but also cures this disease.

Vocal classes are primarily a prevention of colds. Vocals are needed to “pump” all our tracheas and bronchi. Vocal work is an excellent workout and ventilation of the lungs. This is very important for the growing body of the child. In people who systematically engage in singing, the vital capacity of the lungs increases and adds to the body a margin of safety.

While singing, a person inhales air quickly and exhales slowly. As a result, the oxygen content in the blood decreases, and the dose of carbon dioxide increases accordingly. Carbon dioxide in this case is an irritant that activates the internal defenses of the body, which during the illness begin to work in an enhanced mode. Thus, singing is an excellent prevention of colds. American scientists conducted research among the singers of one opera group. It turned out that singing not only develops the lungs and chest well (as professional singers have a well-developed chest), but also strengthens the heart muscle. The life expectancy of the vast majority of professional singers is well above average. Pay attention - good opera singers are physically healthy people and, as a rule, long-livers.

Singing and mild stuttering.

Vocal lessons improve the speech function of the body. Those people who suffer from stuttering, it is very useful to start singing. This is especially true for children. The sooner a stuttering child begins to sing, the more chances he has to get rid of this shortcoming. One of the obstacles that a stutterer faces is the pronunciation of the first sound in a word. In singing, one word flows into another and, as it were, flows along with the music. The child listens to how others sing, and tries to get in time. In this case, the accent is smoothed. It has already been proven that a mild degree of stuttering can be completely eliminated if a person sings regularly. Around the world, children with a mild form of stuttering are successfully treated with the help of choral singing. The main thing is regular classes.

One of the students of our school, who has been stuttering since childhood, has chosen vocal singing as her profession. Now, many of her friends note her unusually sing-song speech, and are unaware that this is just a residual consequence of a once tangible stutter. For people suffering from moderate to severe stuttering, singing, unfortunately, cannot help.

Singing and depression.

The positive effect of singing on a person was used by our ancestors to cure a wide variety of diseases. It has long been known that singing - both solo and choral - has been used for centuries to treat mental ailments. Aristotle and Pythagoras recommended singing in the treatment of mental disorders. In Tibet, monks still treat nervous diseases by singing. In ancient Greece, with the help of choral singing, they were treated for insomnia. In ancient times, people intuitively guessed the presence of great healing power in singing, but could not scientifically substantiate this fact.

In any case, it is useful to sing, even if a person believes that he has neither a voice nor hearing. Having learned to express his emotions with his voice, a person receives an effective tool for relieving stress, internal tension. Singing classes contribute to mental development and strengthening of the nervous system.

Singing is a great way to relieve stress, emotional stability. A singing person is always positive, and even if he has experienced grief, he experiences significant relief while singing. In 2009, after a man-made accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station (Cheryomushki is a settlement of workers at the SSH hydroelectric power station), a lot of adults who wanted to sing came to our school. Among these were relatives of those killed in the crash. With a song, they splashed 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 community of about 9,000 people. In the past, it was a youth village with a well-established cultural life. Schools, kindergartens, a magnificent Palace of Culture, a music school. Now the population of the village can no longer be called youthful, most of the inhabitants are at a “wise” age, the birth rate has accordingly decreased, and the occupancy of both groups in kindergartens and in school classes. We accept almost all children to the music department at school, without dividing them into “singers” and “not quite singers”. In the choir class, both “hooters” and well-toned children study.

I conduct choir and vocal classes using the phonopedic method of developing a child's voice by V.V. Emelyanov. Children who study in my class, from 6 to 18 years old, hiss, scream, rustle with their voices with great pleasure. It is simply not possible for children to perform exercises sluggishly, lazily and without support. For proper execution, students try to be more active, collected, attentive and energetic. Discover new, healthy, rich sounds. With pleasure, they themselves track how their voices gradually open up and grow stronger. And I, with no less pleasure, follow how less and less children bring certificates of past illnesses. In the period from 1st to 5th grades, colds and infectious diseases (ARI, SARS) cease to hurt, up to 60% of children. In 2009, in the second half of the year (January-May), there was not a single sick child in the senior choir. This is at a time when February is the most "flu" month. How these diseases are transferred, I myself have long forgotten. If any of the listed ailments comes, I cope with it much faster than my colleagues. Practicing vocals greatly improves immunity. Now I know it myself, from my life and professional experience.

In Russia, people believed that the soul itself sings in a person and singing is its natural state. If you are in a bad mood, you often get sick, feel tired and tense - one piece of advice - sing! Sing all you can and remember, even if you've never learned it. Let your children learn at the music school, and you will sing along with them. It is much more useful to sing not alone, but with the whole family.

Literature.

  1. Bulanov V.G. How singing contributes to the development of various and very useful personality traits - Yekaterinburg, 2003. – pp.13–16.
  2. Emelyanov V.V. Voice development. Coordination and training - Borodulino 1996
  3. http://ypoku-siddha.ru/
  4. http://sunshinereiki.ucoz.com/forum/

Trushina Svetlana Yurienva
Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution
Secondary General Education Cadet Cossack School
Trans-Baikal Territory, Nerchinsky District, with. Znamenka

" Effect of singing on human health

Since the time of the most ancient civilizations, people have known the healing power of sounds uttered by their own voice. Modern medicine has long drawn attention to the fact that singing, especially professional vocal training, has a beneficial effect on human health. Singing is the very necessary tool that allows you to find not only the joy of life, but also significantly improve your health. According to the figurative expression of scientists, the larynx is the second heart of a person. The voice, recovering in the process of vocal training, heals the entire body. Pregnant women are advised to listen to classical music more, calm lullabies are recommended to be sung by expectant mothers themselves. It is useful not only to listen to music, but it is even more useful to sing yourself, because while singing, sound frequencies activate the development of the child, affecting his brain.
Even just listening to music changes a person's mood. Some works calm and pacify, others cheer up. Melodious, quiet, moderately slow, minor music has a calming effect. Psychotherapists often began to use music for treatment, and quite often you can hear musical works in the offices of dentists. Positive emotional experiences with the sound of pleasant melodies enhance attention, activate the emotional central nervous system and stimulate intellectual activity.
Physicians have long paid attention to the beneficial effects of music and singing on people's health. And you don't have to be a professional to benefit from singing. If you're in a bad mood or feeling tense, sing, even if you've never learned to sing. It's one thing to listen to music, but it's quite another to sing yourself, it's much more useful. Scientists have found that during singing, special chemicals are produced in the brain, thanks to which a person feels peace and joy. According to them, singing sets in motion the “molecules responsible for emotions” in the brain, so with the help of singing you can not only express, but also evoke certain feelings. Vibration of the voice is very important for good health. The reproduction of some vowels makes the tonsils and glands vibrate and helps to cleanse the body of toxins.
Singing helps relieve stress. Scientists have found that while singing, endorphins are produced in the brain, a substance due to which a person feels joy, peace, good mood and increased vitality. Thus, with the help of singing, one can evoke and express certain feelings. With the help of singing, you can put your lungs in order, improve blood circulation and complexion, correct your posture, since singing is simply uncomfortable in other positions. When singing, we always straighten up, raise our heads. Peni helps to improve diction and staging of colloquial speech, even correct such a defect as stuttering.

When a person sings, a large amount of oxygen enters his body, while the blood circulation of the whole organism improves, blood pressure decreases, and the heartbeat normalizes. Improving blood circulation has a beneficial effect on the vocal cords, tonsils and numerous lymph nodes, which significantly increases local immunity. For those who like to sing or just hum something under their breath, their throat hurts less often, susceptibility to colds decreases. Improving blood supply during singing leads to the activation of the brain: it begins to work more intensively, memory improves, any information is easier to perceive. Moreover, the improvement of the blood supply to the head as a whole has a rejuvenating effect, the skin condition improves.
Singing, among other things, increases our intelligence, helps to better contact with other people, increases a joyful mood and concentration, and, of course, a working mood. Singing affects health, promotes deeper breathing, activates the lymphatic system in the larynx and, accordingly, the cleansing action of the lymph in the head area and generally improves the blood circulation of the whole body. Children always sing with pleasure, but we adults have forgotten. At the same time, children become calmer, happier and less capricious. It is simply unimaginable how, thanks to singing, we can do so much good for ourselves, and in our own stupidity, we can say that we miss such a moment and do not take it seriously.
There are sounds that can completely restore blood circulation and eliminate congestion
Vowels:
“A” - helps relieve pain of various origins, heals the heart and upper lobes of the lungs, helps with paralysis and respiratory diseases, has a powerful effect on the entire body, contributing to the saturation of tissues with oxygen.
“I” - helps in the treatment of eyes, ears, small intestines. “Cleans” the nose, stimulates the work of the heart.
"O" - treats cough, bronchitis, tracheitis, inflammation of the lungs, relieves spasms and pains, eases the course of pulmonary tuberculosis.
"U" - improves breathing, stimulates the kidneys, heals the throat and vocal cords, as well as all organs located in the abdomen.
“Y” - helps in the treatment of ears, improves breathing.
"E" - improves brain function.

Consonants.
The healing power of some consonants has been scientifically proven.
"B", "H", "M" - improve the functioning of the brain.
"K", "Sch" - help in the treatment of ears.
"X" - frees the body from waste substances and negative energy, improves breathing.
"C" - helps in the treatment of the intestines, is useful for the heart, blood vessels, 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, loving, without shrinking from fear or indignation.
“UH”, “OH”, “AH” - stimulate the release of waste substances and negative energy from the body.
These sounds must not only be pronounced, they must be sung. Be sure to pay attention to the intensity with which the sounds are sung. If there is a cardiovascular disease, then you should not do the exercise too intensely; if therapy of the abdominal organs is necessary - on the contrary, the more intensively, the better.

In Russia, people believed that the soul itself sings in a person and singing is its natural state. If you are in a bad mood, you often get sick, experience fatigue and tension - one piece of advice - sing! Sing all you can and remember, even if you've never learned it. Let your children learn at the music school, and you will sing along with them. It is much more useful to sing not alone, but with the whole family.
Singing is an inexpensive activity and he does not need to study and have a special room for this. Sing and BE HEALTHY!

The psychology of singing. Why is it good to sing? Benefits of singing for mental health

Why is it useful to sing from the point of view of psychology?

1. When you start practicing vocals, you begin to better control your spoken voice, diction becomes clearer.

I used to have a rather squeaky, high-pitched, quiet voice that I didn't have much control over. Neither increase the volume, nor make the voice lower. And a high voice is not always good, because it can be perceived too emotionally, childishly, not seriously enough. Therefore, the ability to control the voice is a very valuable skill. It allows you to have more options for expressing your thoughts, emotions, feelings.

2. Psychological clamps in the throat are removed.

A lot of clamps, unexpressed emotions, restrained feelings remain in the body. They can make it difficult to relax. And by working at the level of the body, you can become healthier psychologically.

And all the unspoken words can be especially connected with the throat. This is a common thing, because it is not appropriate for all people from your environment to talk about their feelings. Especially about negative feelings. So, singing helps to work out these muscle clamps and improve your mental health. And physically, of course, too.

3. From a psychological point of view, singing is a great way to live and express some emotions. Because there are songs that are very lively, emotional. And in these songs you can put all those emotions that were not expressed in everyday life. Therefore, singing heals. You can shout in a song when in life it is not always possible. This is a great way to shed negativity, normalize your hormonal status and feel freer.

4. Singing will make you more confident. After all, having overcome yourself, you feel that you can do everything - if you were able to develop hearing and voice, which were not there initially. And this is an important positive experience, which can then be applied to other goals and areas of life.

5. Emancipation. To sing beautifully and freely, you need to feel free and not be ashamed of anything. With a tense body and various restrictive thoughts, it is impossible to sing beautifully. In the process of learning, these blocks pass, you learn to relax, you feel confident and free.

7. Self-confidence. When you know that you sing well, you feel more confident in any company, karaoke, at a holiday. There is no desire to merge with the wall if someone offers to sing. After all, you will do it beautifully and correctly.

8. You open yourself from new sides: the opportunity to get used to the sound of your voice, to love it is also a lot of work on yourself, associated with self-love. It doesn't come easy for everyone. In fact, the sound of the voice is something that is very unusual at first. And even many professional singers do not always fully accept their voice, can hear it and enjoy it. Therefore, if you manage to understand, accept, love your voice, this will be a very important step in working on yourself.

9. Singing is associated with the process of relaxation. For example, I can sing well when, on the one hand, I am relaxed, on the other hand, I control some moments (vocal position, muscle work, etc.). This combination is not very simple, and the achievement of this happens when a person is more aware. Only being relaxed and at the same moment realizing what is happening - you get an excellent result. Again, this is great for self-development and mental health.

I hope this article has helped you feel even more confident about getting started with vocals. In fact, I now believe that everyone needs to learn to sing - both children and
adults. At least for your pleasure, psychological and physical health.

Psychologist Yulia Denisova-Melnikova

Comments on the article:

- You wrote everything right, singing helps to relax and control your voice, but unfortunately, this is only if you sing for your own pleasure, when it’s your job, then it’s already more difficult. The voice is affected by mood and health, so it’s like have to)))

Julia_d_m: Thanks for the comment. Agree with you. I think it's like physical activity. Moving is very useful and positive, but professional sports are completely different.

I really liked your arguments. I subscribe to everything.

I had difficulties in life .. I somehow started singing on my own, constantly sitting in headphones. .listen to your favorite songs. And I didn't get bored. On the contrary, it was as if she could not get enough. It really helps relieve stress and improve mood.
thank you for information

Julia_d_m: and thank you for sharing your experience) Singing is a really powerful stress reliever!

Delightfully written!) I agree with you in many ways) I will answer you point by point, can I?)

1. Truly! Only my voice is really high from nature, and I tried to sing in violas for a long time, but then I moved) But yes. I can control my voice. And even people who don't know me (particularly the dog lovers with whom I have been actively communicating for the last 1.5 years, especially one of them) tell me that they can hear that I was doing vocals (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) But high childish voice is my salvation when they call from all sorts of banks, etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .

2. I can’t say anything about this, I trust your words) Although about physical health improvement, yes, I can only breathe deeply (IMG: style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

3. Oh yes! I support your words with all hands and feet! It can be so sad that at least howl, and sing some sad song - and it's easier.

4. It is fashionable to develop only what is there) if it worked out, then there is) there are people by nature who sing perfectly and they don’t need to learn. And there are those who fight, fight, but it’s not given to them, and that’s it. I'm not saying that you need to sit down on the first unsuccessful attempt, but if everything is bad after the thousandth, then this is clearly not yours (IMG:
9. I agree. And, as the commenter wrote above, it works all day long if you do it for yourself, and not professionally (IMG.

Psychologists say that the best way to improve the quality of your life is to simply start enjoying it. Skillfully selected music has a positive effect on the purposeful activity of a person, contributing to such a rhythmic tuning of the body, in which physiological processes proceed more efficiently.

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The effect of singing on human health

Psychologists say that the best way to improve the quality of your life is to simply start enjoying it. Skillfully selected music has a positive effect on the purposeful activity of a person, contributing to such a rhythmic tuning of the body, in which physiological processes proceed more efficiently. Even just listening to music changes a person's mood. Some works calm and pacify, others cheer up. Melodious, quiet, moderately slow, minor music has a calming effect. Psychotherapists often began to use music for treatment, and quite often you can hear musical works in the offices of dentists. Positive emotional experiences with the sound of pleasant melodies enhance attention, activate the emotional central nervous system and stimulate intellectual activity.

Since the time of the most ancient civilizations, people have known the healing power of sounds uttered by their own voice. Modern medicine has long drawn attention to the fact that singing, especially professional vocal training, has a beneficial effect on human health. Singing is the very necessary tool that allows you to find not only the joy of life, but also significantly improve your health. According to the figurative expression of scientists, the larynx is the second heart of a person. The voice, recovering in the process of vocal training, heals the entire body. Pregnant women are advised to listen to classical music more, calm lullabies are recommended to be sung by expectant mothers themselves. It is useful not only to listen to music, but it is even more useful to sing yourself, because while singing, sound frequencies activate the development of the child, affecting his brain.

Singing helps relieve stress. Scientists have found that while singing, endorphins are produced in the brain, a substance due to which a person feels joy, peace, good mood and increased vitality. Thus, with the help of singing, one can evoke and express certain feelings. With the help of singing, you can put your lungs in order, improve blood circulation and complexion, correct your posture, improve diction and conversational speech, even correct such a defect as stuttering.

Singing is especially important for children. The impact of singing on a child's health cannot be overestimated. Working with the child's vocal apparatus, the teacher acts to improve the health of his student. It is no coincidence that there are so many children's choirs in our country. Almost every school tries to organize a choir, ascollective singing is not only a health benefit, but also the formation of friendships. Children engaged in singing differ from their peers in positive emotionality, self-sufficiency. Satisfaction with doing business is the stimulation of a good mood, and the lack of desire to search for any other stimulants and search for dangerous pleasures, including drugs.

Vibration and overtones.

The voice given to a person from birth is a unique musical instrument. A person's voice always vibrates when it is played, even if the person is shouting or talking in a whisper. The vibration of the voice has a very positive effect on the human body. When our voice sounds, each sound is accompanied by vibrations of higher frequencies - overtones. Here the role is played by the close proximity of the larynx, in which vibrations occur, and the brain. Overtones resonate with the bones of the skull and with the brain responsible for the immune system. Thanks to this, immunity is stimulated, and a singing child catches a cold much less than a child deprived of this activity.

A trained child's voice covers a frequency range of approximately 70 to 3000 vibrations per second. These vibrations permeate the entire body of a singing student, improve blood circulation, and help cleanse cells. A wide range of human voice vibration frequencies improves blood circulation in vessels of any diameter. High frequencies promote blood microcirculation in the capillaries, and low frequencies promote blood flow in the veins and arteries.

Singing and our internal organs.

Vocal is a unique means of self-massage of internal organs, which contributes to their functioning and healing. Scientists believe that each of the internal human organs has its own specific vibration frequency. With a disease, the frequency of the organ becomes different, as a result of which there is a discord in the work of the whole organism. By singing, a person may well influence a diseased organ, returning a healthy vibration. The fact is that when a person sings, only 20% of the sound is sent to the outer space, and 80% inside, to our body, forcing our organs to work more intensively. Sound waves, falling into the resonant frequencies corresponding to a particular organ, cause its maximum vibration, exerting a direct impact on this organ.

During singing, the diaphragm actively works, thereby massaging the liver and preventing stagnation of bile. At the same time, the functioning of the abdominal organs and intestines improves. The reproduction of some vowels makes the tonsils and glands vibrate and helps to cleanse the body of toxins. There are sounds that can completely restore blood circulation and eliminate congestion. This sound therapy practice has long been known and is still used in India and China.

Vowels.

"A" - helps relieve pain of various origins, heals the heart and upper lobes of the lungs, helps with paralysis and respiratory diseases, has a powerful effect on the entire body, contributing to the saturation of tissues with oxygen.

"I" - helps in the treatment of eyes, ears, small intestines. “Cleans” the nose, stimulates the work of the heart.

"O" - treats cough, bronchitis, tracheitis, inflammation of the lungs, relieves spasms and pain, alleviates the course of pulmonary tuberculosis.

"U" - improves breathing, stimulates the kidneys,treats the throat and vocal cords, as well as all organs located in the abdomen.

"Y" - helps in the treatment of ears, improves breathing.

"E" - improves brain function.

Consonants.

The healing power of some consonants has been scientifically proven.

"B", "H", "M" - improve the functioning of the brain.

"K", "Sch" - help in the treatment of ears.

"X" - frees the body from waste substances and negative energy, improves breathing.

"C" - helps in the treatment of the intestines, is useful for the heart, blood vessels, 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, loving, without shrinking from fear or indignation.

“UH”, “OH”, “AH” - stimulate the release of waste substances and negative energy from the body.

These sounds must not only be pronounced, they must be sung. Be sure to pay attention to the intensity with which the sounds are sung. If a cardiovascular disease occurs, then you should not do the exercise too intensely; if abdominal therapy is necessary - on the contrary, the more intensive, the better.

Singing and respiratory organs.

The art of singing is, first of all, the art of proper breathing, which is the most important factor in our health. Diaphragmatic breathing, respiratory muscles are trained, lung drainage improves. With bronchial asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis, the sympathetic system is overexcited. Inhalation and the subsequent inhalation delay affect the sympathetic part of the nervous system, which is responsible for activating the internal organs. There are methods of treating bronchial asthma by teaching singing and in the choir practice of many teachers - choir teachers there were cases of a complete cessation of asthma attacks in sick children, and when, with a diagnosis of "bronchial asthma", doctors directly send a child to sing in the choir, this has not caused any problems for a long time. who is surprised. Singing not only relieves an attack of bronchial asthma, but also cures this disease.

Vocal classes are primarily a prevention of colds. Vocals are needed to “pump” all our tracheas and bronchi. Vocal work is an excellent workout and ventilation of the lungs. This is very important for the growing body of the child. In people who systematically engage in singing, the vital capacity of the lungs increases and adds to the body a margin of safety.

While singing, a person inhales air quickly and exhales slowly. As a result, the oxygen content in the blood decreases, and the dose of carbon dioxide increases accordingly. Carbon dioxide in this case is an irritant that activates the internal defenses of the body, which during the illness begin to work in an enhanced mode. Thus, singing is an excellent prevention of colds. American scientists conducted research among the singers of one opera group. It turned out that singing not only develops the lungs and chest well (as professional singers have a well-developed chest), but also strengthens the heart muscle. The life expectancy of the vast majority of professional singers is well above average. Pay attention - good opera singers are physically healthy people and, as a rule, long-livers.

Singing and mild stuttering.

Vocal lessons improve the speech function of the body. Those people who suffer from stuttering, it is very useful to start singing. This is especially true for children. The sooner a stuttering child begins to sing, the more chances he has to get rid of this shortcoming. One of the obstacles that a stutterer faces is the pronunciation of the first sound in a word. In singing, one word flows into another and, as it were, flows along with the music. The child listens to how others sing, and tries to get in time. In this case, the accent is smoothed. It has already been proven that a mild degree of stuttering can be completely eliminated if a person sings regularly. Around the world, children with a mild form of stuttering are successfully treated with the help of choral singing. The main thing is regular classes.

Singing and depression.

The positive effect of singing on a person was used by our ancestors to cure a wide variety of diseases. It has long been known that singing - both solo and choral - has been used for centuries to treat mental ailments. Aristotle and Pythagoras recommended singing in the treatment of mental disorders. In Tibet, monks still treat nervous diseases by singing. In ancient Greece, with the help of choral singing, they were treated for insomnia. In ancient times, people intuitively guessed the presence of great healing power in singing, but could not scientifically substantiate this fact.

In any case, it is useful to sing, even if a person believes that he has neither a voice nor hearing. Having learned to express his emotions with his voice, a person receives an effective tool for relieving stress, internal tension. Singing classes contribute to mental development and strengthening of the nervous system.

Singing is a great way to relieve stress, emotional stability. A singing person is always positive, and even if he has grief, he experiences significant relief while singing.

In Russia, people believed that the soul itself sings in a person and singing is its natural state. If you are in a bad mood, you often get sick, feel tired and tense - one piece of advice - sing! Sing all you can and remember, even if you've never learned it. Let your children learn at the music school, and you will sing along with them. It is much more useful to sing not alone, but with the whole family.


“I was diagnosed with bronchial asthma. The doctor, among other recommendations, gave a very strange one - to sing. Preferably with a vocal teacher, but you can also do karaoke at home. I was embarrassed to ask, but now I think, why should I sing with such a disease?

Valentine, Magnitogorsk

Comments Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Evidence-Based Medicine of the Russian State Medical University. N.I. Pirogova, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Pulmonology, FMBA Zaurbek Ramazanovich Aisanov.

The doctor gave you the correct recommendation. Breathing exercises that a person performs in vocal courses are indeed a good non-drug method of recovery. Therefore, it can be used in the complex therapy of bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, abbreviated as COPD.

Moreover, today such techniques are widely used in leading Western clinics for the treatment of pulmonary problems. They are called "speech therapy".

However, it should be noted that vocal lessons cannot be assigned separately. Only in combination with medicines prescribed by a doctor. In this case, they can significantly increase the effectiveness of medicines, since they have a positive effect on lung function. And thus - to reduce the frequency of exacerbations and hospitalizations in patients with COPD and asthmatics.

The fact is that vocal practice is a kind of breathing exercises. She teaches the patient to breathe correctly. It is able to increase the capacity of the lungs for ventilation and oxygen delivery to various organs and systems. And the general condition of the body and the quality of life as a whole are significantly improved.

comments one of the founders and director of the music school in Moscow "Music Story" Olga Afanasyeva.

– In my work, there were many cases when people suffering from various pulmonary diseases came to me to learn how to sing. Including - and bronchial asthma. And I can say from my own experience that vocal lessons greatly develop the human respiratory system. And, importantly, they make it clear how the lungs function. And how to help them, given all the burdens inherent in disease and life in the city.

Of course, if the doctor has prescribed medications, you should never refuse them arbitrarily. But you can help yourself to avoid asthma attacks with the help of the exercises that we do with the students in the classroom. For example, deeper breathing, which is activated only by inhaling through the nose, helps to fill the lower sections of the lungs with air. It reduces stress, gives relaxation and calmness.

Such breathing can also reduce blood pressure, normalize the pulse, and stimulate the immune system. Moreover, it even performs a kind of massage of the heart and all internal organs due to the movement of the diaphragm.

I would also recommend singing to people without diseases of the lungs and bronchi. When, with the help of special exercises, you learn to breathe with your "belly", your life will change for the better. At a minimum, you will become calmer, which is very important in our stressful time. And at the very least, improve your health.

The only caveat is that home karaoke should still be preferred by healthy people. Professional vocal courses are needed precisely for setting the right breathing. But just karaoke will not give such a skill. And the effect might be the opposite. After all, if the respiratory organs are not in order, it is sometimes difficult to even just breathe - let alone sing!

It is interesting!

The experiment with singing was carried out in one of the hospitals in London. Patients with respiratory diseases were offered a choice of two leisure activities: singing and watching movies. At the same time, both of them received exactly the same treatment.

After the completion of the tests, it turned out that those who sang subjectively began to feel better. Researchers believe that it is not singing itself that helps, but certain breathing exercises that are always present in vocal lessons. Patients learn to regulate their breathing and thereby reduce the frequency and intensity of attacks.