Music has been used as a therapeutic tool for centuries and has been shown to affect many areas of the brain, including the regions involved in emotion, cognition, sensation, and movement.
Music can be a powerful tool for sense of identity development.
Music offers a resource for emotion regulation, lyrics that resonate with the listener’s personal experience can give voice to feelings or experiences that one might not be able to express oneself.
Music doesn’t only evoke emotions at the individual level, but also at the interpersonal and intergroup level.
Music often creates strong action tendencies to move in coordination with the music.