AIMAN INAM

SYDNEY: It is an old adage that music soothes our soules. Apart from calming us down, it has strong impact on our mind, particularly when we are in emotional and mental distress.

Previously, it has been learnt that people turn to music when they go through low and sad mood as well as depression.

Nevertheless, now academics are of the view that listening to cheerful music could potentially kick start your creative juices into flowing.

Also, happy melodies may help you to come up with more innovative solutions.

As to prove this, investigators from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia recruited some155 contributors.

They have been canvassed to fill up questionnaires and then academics divided them into troupes.

Then the groups listened to different sorts of music such as cool, happy, poignant, anxious…

While listening to music, they have been asked to perform a variety of cognitive tasks as to assess their divergent and convergent creative thinking.

Their findings suggested that those, who listened to happy music, came up with more divergent creative ideas as compared to others.

In point of fact, happy music can actually enhance flexibility in thinking, which in return, makes your creative juices flowing.

Their up shots have been detailed in the journal PLOS ONE.