MUSIC MAKING PRACTICES FOR WELL-BEING: Click on the links below to explore the studies, research and articles proving the benefits of rhythm and music making practices for stress management, mental health. anxiety and promoting well-being.

1. Stress and Trauma: Drumming, rhythm and regulation through a polyvagal lens.

2. Decreased Burnout in workforce: Role of Music Intervention on Professional Quality of Life and Work Stress.

3. Listening to a steady drumbeat reduces both stress and anxiety symptoms.

4. Drumming benefits Native Americans seeking substance use treatments indicated by reports of lower cognitive impairment and lower counts of drug use.

5. Music therapy offers new hope for addiction recovery.
   

6. How playing the drums changes the brain
   

7. Watch this video showing actual footage of the study proving the benefits on mental health with drumming groups at the Royal College of music.

8. The human brain is prepared to follow a pattern…

9. This study demonstrates that group drumming leads to enhanced psychological states, specifically less depression and greater social resilience, across six weeks

10. Psychology Today Article: How Drum Circles Can Improve, if Not Cure, Your Depression

11. Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users.

12. Improving the social and mental well being of at-risk young people through drumming

13. Drumming out addiction

14. Article “…the phenomenon of repeated rhythm helps the mind retain information.”

15. Recreational Music-making: An Integrative Group Intervention for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States

16. Learning to play the drum: an experiential exercise for management students

17. Drumming for Development: How Drumming Helps Children with Special Needs

18. Drum Circles put pharmaceutical antidepressants to shame (medical article)

19. Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users

20. Scientists who studied the effects of drumming in two groups (one drummed, the other didn’t) found that drumming reduced depression and anxiety and improved social resilience over six- and 10-week time spans.

21. The Biological Benefits of Drumming

22. The Heart is a Drum Machine: Drumming as Therapy

23. For therapists at Hillsides, a Los Angeles behavioral healthcare premier provider, drumming is a mindful exercise used for mental health services. Find out how intentional drumming can produce collaborative projects to benefit clients.

24. The Impact of Group Drumming on Social-Emotional Behavior in Low-Income Children

25. Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery

26. Drumming and BiPolar…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

27. The study—the first to provide biological evidencelinking the ability to keep a beat to the neural encoding of speech sounds—has significant implications for reading

28. Drumming at Senior Assisted Living Home boosts brain activity