Next time you find yourself singing in the shower remember…
Singing has been shown to:
• Boost cellular oxygenation
• Create connection and communion
• Decrease cortisol
• Ease grief
• Enhance speaking skills in those vocally challenged, such as stroke victims
• Improve cognitive function
• Improve immunity
• Increase relaxing dopamine and melatonin
• Increase energising nitric oxide
• Lower blood pressure and heart rate
• Improve snoring, according to a 2008 study
• Mobilise jaw muscles
• Promote bonding oxytocin
• Reduce anxiety and stress hormones
• Regulate breathing
• Release mood-elevating, pain-relieving endorphins
• Slow age-related memory loss
• Spiritually uplift
• Stimulate lymphatic circulation
• Stimulate the vagus nerve to rest and digest
• Tone lung function to increase lung capacity and engage chest muscles