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What are the benefits of Tai Chi music?
Simply speaking, music can make people happy and is also a way for modern people to relieve stress. However, we can always see many people listening to music while practicing Tai Chi. What are the benefits?
Music helps Tai Chi beginners to calm down: For Tai Chi beginners, matching appropriate music can help them calm down as soon as possible, enter a benign mind induction, and concentrate on practicing Tai Chi.
Music helps remember the routines: For Tai Chi beginners, especially those who are older and have poor memory, matching music can help them remember the movements and remind them to connect and switch between movements.
Music makes Tai Chi practitioners happy physically and mentally: Music has a good mental regulation effect on people, which can make people feel excited, calm, balanced, relaxed and other emotional states, thereby eliminating the tension and oppression brought by secular affairs or the fast pace of life, and helping people concentrate.
Music can enhance the artistry and appreciation of Tai Chi performances and competitions: Practicing Tai Chi with music, especially adding music to Tai Chi performances of artistic appreciation, allows practitioners to listen to music while practicing Tai Chi, increasing the coordination and beauty of movements.
The introduction of music has created an innovative atmosphere for the development of Tai Chi: In the history of Tai Chi, the introduction of music into Tai Chi is an innovation that has created a good atmosphere for promoting the development of Tai Chi.
Overall, Tai Chi music not only increases the interest of practitioners, but also enhances the effect of Tai Chi practice because it can create a relaxed state, help establish a smoother connection between movements, and make practice more enjoyable. Two studies have shown that using music during Tai Chi practice can also improve mental health.
STUDY ONE:
In a study of 107 adults with moderate depressive symptoms, 55 undertook tai chi with music while the other half did other activities. At a 3 month follow up, a significant reduction in depressive symptoms was reported.
STUDY TWO：
In a study of 112 individuals where roughly half participated in taichi music activities, they recorded physical, psychological, social, and environment improvements.
What kind of Taichi music should I choose?
This is where the fun is. First, choose music you like. When I practice on my own, I choose my favorite music, the same music I listen to at the gym. However, if you are exercising with a group, there is a lot of tai chi music to choose from. First, the same rules apply, make sure you like it and that it is not distracting. Secondly, songs designed for Tai Chi use natural instruments, such as bamboo panpipes, bamboo percussion instruments, gourds, wind chimes, and flutes. There are slow, quiet pieces, as well as cheerful, loud pieces, and even meditative tones. If you’re really feeling it, there are even very dramatic songs that end with loud gongs!
What kind of Taichi music should I choose?
First, you should choose any song you like, because music you don’t like will distract you from your concentration and won’t help you practice Tai Chi. Also, if you want to use Tai Chi to relax and relieve stress. Anxiety and stress can cause shortness of breath and disordered thoughts. To relieve stress, you need soft and long music so that your body rhythm will begin to match the music. Peaceful music can relax people’s nerves, while overly intense music can increase excitement, anxiety, and stress, and is not suitable for relaxing the mind, so please don’t choose it when practicing Tai Chi. Also, only choose longer music if possible, so that you don’t always interrupt your practice to fiddle with the music.
Hope you can find the Tai Chi music that suits you!