Music plays an important role in our lives. It can help us relax, concentrate and happy. Everyone feels connected to music of their choice. On fundamental level we human beings are wired to respond to music.  If a song makes one happy it means that it is affecting the chemistry of our brain. Researchers from MC gill University, Montreal discovered that our brain releases dopamine during enjoying our favourite music, it is the same chemical responsible to make you fall in love. Music touches the limbic system or the emotional system of our brain.

People who study music tends to use both hemisphere of their brain more, thus this makes them better at lateral thinking and accelerates their ability of solving creative problem.  Listening to music engages our hippocampus, this part of brain handles our long term memory storage . Listening to music is an amazing feeling specially when one is stressed because music distracts our brain from registering the body's fatigue.  Music helps us to detach ourselves from our ongoing struggles and problems. It  serves as a route for escapism. 

Music improves our heart and muscles endurance. Music impacts our body psychologically and physiologically. It is said that playing a musical instrument can make you smarter. According to a 2008 study, findings revealed that children with three years of musical training performed better during test of non verbal reasoning and this study also revealed that children with three years of musical training possessed better motor skills, auditory  discrimination skill and vocabulary as compared to those who didn't had the musical background.

It's undeniable that music significantly affects human beings. Music measurably influences the way we dance, exercise and think. Music acts a  very powerful stimulator for our behaviour . Researchers have shown that “ brain waves resonates with the beat of music and that makes our breathing and heart beat to match the beat of the song we are listening ”.  It is also proven that listening to pleasant music boosts our serotonin level, serotonin is a chemical responsible for good feelings. 

But being addicted to loud music can interfere with our mental ability. Listening to music at volume over 95 decibels can diminish our mental and physical reaction times by twenty percent and club music usually plays at about 120 decibels. Since music influences our decision making power ,loud music in clubs accelerates the sale of alcohol and similar principle is applied on shopping malls to increase the sale of products.