HUMMING IS TOO –
June 10, 2024 – If there is a song in your soul, sing it out loud — whether in your car on your morning commute or at karaoke with friends. It’s okay if you are not the next Taylor Swift.
Making music — even if we aren’t especially good at it — can still be good for us. Music has the power to soothe the mind, promote brain health and bring people closer together… But even though music can get stuck in our heads or make us want to move and groove, we can find it difficult to muster up the courage to make it ourselves.
“Nobody says you shouldn’t jog if you are not good at it,” said Daniel Levitin, a professor emeritus of neuroscience at McGill University and dean of arts and humanities at Minerva University. “That’s not the point.”
