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Singing to good health
By Karla Callaway
Graham Welch, director for advanced music education at London’s Roehampton Institute, states the following:
- Singing exercises the vocal cords and keeps them youthful, even in old age.
- Singing expands your chest, back and shoulders thus improving posture.
- Singing also lifts moods and releases pain-relieving endorphins.
- Singing improves circulation which boosts the body’s immune system.
- Singers suffer less depression, make fewer doctor visits a year, take fewer medications and have increased their other activities.
- Singing gives the lungs a workout, tones up abdominal and intercostal muscles and the diaphragm, and stimulates circulation.
- Singing makes us breathe more deeply than even many forms of strenuous exercise, so we take in more oxygen, improve aerobic capacity and experience a release of muscle tension as well.
- Not only does singing promote well-being, it can also help to prolong life.
Are YOU ready to add a healthy, new dimension to your life? Try singing! Sharing the joy of singing will enrich your life far beyond the notes and music.
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