It's winter in Calgary. Flu and cold season has kicked in. We have already had a month where the daily temperature has struggled to reach -20 Celsius. When you're outside it hurts to take a deep breath. Our exposure to fresh air is limited. We spend the majority of our time indoors breathing recycled indoor air.
It is also a time of highly stressed immune systems for many people. The good news is that music and sound can boost your immune system. Many of us intuitively put on our favorite feel-good music when we're not feeling well. You choose this music for good reason.
Music changes your heartbeat. For example, not everybody knows that when you walk into a grocery store or mall where music is playing, within about five minutes your heartbeat matches the rhythm of the music. This is called rhythmic entrainment. There is no off switch. The human body is a natural resonator for sound.
Three main rhythms in your body are your heartbeat, your breathing, and your brain waves. Because these rhythms are connected, when you affect one of these systems you affect the others. When you listen to music with a beat that matches the beating of a calm heart, your heart will match it. Your breathing will slow down and you will feel calmer. When this happens, your hormonal system releases endorphins that have been shown to lessen pain and help you feel better.
At the molecular level, viruses use the same receptors as neuropeptides to enter a cell. The name for the cold virus is rheovirus. It attaches to the same receptor as the neuropeptide, norepinephrine, which is believed to be released when you are happy. If all these receptors are attached to norepinephrine, the cold virus can't get into the cell.
There is a whole genre of music called Applied Psychoacoustic Music that uses entrainment to manipulate body rhythms for specific results. You can find CDs that will help you sleep, relax, learn faster and better, focus your mind, boost your immune system, lose weight etc. When you add guided meditation or imagery to this kind of music, the results are even better.
Experiencing this kind of music, feeling its effects on your own body and discovering how it affects you in particular, is worth the effort. By feeling the effects yourself, you will know whether or not this is a tool that you can use to create health and wellness in your life.
In theory, this jingle tool brands your website and helps you "connect" to your client base whether they're paying attention or not. I suppose that if you're looking to only sell homes to people who listen to country music or classical or who like the sound of birds chirping, this might make sense, but I highly suspect that this whole "jingle technology" is just as likely to annoy people who come to your site as it is to endear you to them.
The idea of music on your website isn't new; in fact it's been happening for years. Many websites covered with flashing banner ads and animated gifs are still using embedded music in their content to offset their neon yellow and bright red text.
This prevalence is, however, less common than it used to be, thankfully. Many people in our modern age of technology listen to music on their computer or talk to their friends on Skype (or other programs) while they web surf or research things and whether you're enjoying your voluntarily chosen surfing soundtrack with headphones or speakers, it remains voluntary sounds.
The fact is, many of the involuntary sounds that you find on the internet, whether they're encountered on a company website or a flashy bling-infested MySpace page aren't moderated to be unobtrusive. A sound level that is comfortable to listen to music or talk to your friends through a voice chat program seems to guarantee that if you're subjected to random web page noises or music it will in fact be deafening and will cause you to throw your headphones on the floor in self-defence.
Another sad fact is, that I know for many people who make their living doing computer work that requires them to work online and look at websites, nothing is a bigger turn off than a website that plays unwanted music at you. Many of these browsers just get closed so that you don't have to listen to them or risk turning the music back on if you click on any of the links.
I understand that companies looking to make more sales in this economy may well be looking to make their website more like a commercial, but think for a minute what that's like for a client or customer who might actually want to procure your services. Adding a jingle-tone to your website doesn't make it more appealing or professional, it makes it seem gaudy and commercial. Most people want to feel like they're purchasing services from a professional, not a fast-food chain clown. So keep it quiet, keep it classy.
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