Believe it or not, music is can evoke a range of physiological responses from your body. Your heart rate, for example, will change to mimic the tempo of the music to which you’re listening.

Studies have been conducted that indicate this has a potentially beneficial health effect. For people who listened to music for roughly half an hour a day, their blood pressure and heart rate were lower than those who didn’t.

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