Physical activity inspired by music
As I place my key into the keyhole the door knob turns, I open the door and walk forward into rejuvenation. This once a garage transformed into an exercise room with a treadmill, weight bench and hand held workout equipment. Now that I have escaped the outside world, I put in my headphones in each ear and turn on my ipod. The music enhances the atmosphere creating in me a sense of happiness and comfort. Every doubt that pressed down on my shoulders seemed to fade as my limbs started to become light as a feather. I reached out and grabbed hold of the free weights moving effortlessly along to the beat. I stretched breathing in filling my lungs and slowly exhaled. In that moment I felt young and full of energy.
Let's Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music: New research clarifies why music and exercise make such a good team, and how to create an optimal workout playlist. March 20, 2013 By Ferris Jabr http://www.scientificamerican.com
According to a study published earlier this month, the relationship between music and physical exertion may be more complicated than we initially thought. It isn't just listening to music that drowns out our pain and exhaustion, asserts lead researcher Tom Fritz. The process of creating and controlling music in time to one's exercise improves the experience even more.
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Significance
Here we present a data set demonstrating that musical agency greatly decreases the perceived exertion during strenuous activity. We believe these findings are a major contribution to how we consider the role of music in the emergence of human societies. Furthermore, these findings are timely because they crucially help to understand the therapeutic power of music, a scientific field about to unfold. Although one would expect this workout with musical feedback (jymmin') to be a rather unconventional and dimensionally constrained (each instrument one-dimensionally regulates a musical signal) way to experience musical agency, the experience of the performers suggests an intimate entwinement of ecstatic pleasure and exertion during the performance.
Abstract
Music is known to be capable of reducing perceived exertion during strenuous physical activity. The current interpretation of this modulating effect of music is that music may be perceived as a diversion from unpleasant proprioceptive sensations that go along with exhaustion. Here we investigated the effects of music on perceived exertion during a physically strenuous task, varying musical agency, a task that relies on the experience of body proprioception, rather than simply diverting from it. For this we measured psychologically indicated exertion during physical workout with and without musical agency while simultaneously acquiring metabolic values with spirometry. Results showed that musical agency significantly decreased perceived exertion during workout, indicating that musical agency may actually facilitate physically strenuous activities. Furthermore, this finding suggests that the down-modulating effect of musical agency on perceived exertion may be a previously unacknowledged driving force for the development of music in humans: making music makes strenuous physical activities less exhausting.
- Author contributions: T.H.F., M. Demey, and M.L. designed research; T.H.F., M.N., and O.G. performed research; M. Demoucron, M.N., Y.L., and J.-D.H. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; T.H.F. and S.H. analyzed data; and T.H.F., S.H., and A.V. wrote the paper.
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-----------Inspired by Colorhttp://www.color-wheel-pro.com
* Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
* Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.* Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.* Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money.
* Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
* Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.
* White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.* Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
---Color knows no season
The leaves on the trees burst with radiance in colors of red, orange, yellow. In the cool autumn air I can see my own breath. Fall just happens to be one of my favorite times of the year.Is it true, looks can be deceiving?Being new to the Pacific Northwest it has taken me twenty four months to get to where I am now. Beginning to feel somewhat comfortable in my skin.Oregon has much to offer. A two hour drive you are at the Pacific ocean coast or Mt. Hood where snow covers the mountains top all year long. The rainfall in the region makes for the trees and vegetation to be green and lush. Oregonians, folks native to Oregon tell me they love rain and some say they have webbed feet.
I began by claiming that I simply wanted to undermine the plausibility of the appeal to appearances in matters of perceptual belief. Most of the arguments I have offered, however, have been more strongly stated,viz., I have apparently tried to eliminate them rather than simply render them less credible. But the notion of appearances is deeply entrenched, so much so that simply undermining their credibility may require overstating the case somewhat. The central theme of the above arguments is that appealing to appearances misleads us. The appeal misleads us into giving the wrong sorts of explanation, both with respect to the psychology of perceptual belief formation and the justification of perceptual beliefs.
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