There have been several studies on the power of music therapy, alternative therapy based on music sessions and through playing instruments focuses on the development of the patient. Children and adults can benefit from it, because their properties act globally on the health of the individual, impacting positively on (inter alia) their brain health.
The benefits of music therapy works by stimulating the development of brain activities, and even repeatedly been shown that learning to play instruments and enjoy music increases cognitive abilities and allows us to think more clearly.
Even recently a Northwestern University research has shown that music allows us to develop the activities of the nervous system, including the brain’s ability to learn new things.
It is very difficult for the brain to process all the information from the senses from one moment to another, which is a selective body that decides what is relevant and what not. Researchers have discovered that playing instruments helps to optimize the selection process, emphasizing the feelings and inputs relevant information to the detriment of those not so.
I mean, musical training enables a person to develop thinking and cognitive functions. Therefore, teaching our children to play musical instruments taking advantage of music therapy is to go from childhood.