1. Learning to sing has been known to help alleviate the symptoms of asthma, by providing a disciplined retraining for the muscle control systems that are responsible for breathing.
2. Try singing as a cure for hiccups. Preferably, sing something slow with long, sustained notes, and concentrate hard on the song itself and your interpretation. How about ΓÇ£Silent NightΓÇ¥?
4. Music therapy is becoming a widely recognised form of treatment for emotionally or psychologically disturbed children and adults. Song can provide a means of self-expression that can bring complex emotions to the surface, under the self-control necessary to the discipline of singing.
5. Singing can be a useful group experience for those who normally have difficulty communicating with others. As a member of a choir, introverted people can share a common creative experience and can join in the communal expression of the most extrovert feelings.
6. People who stammer or stutter badly will usually have no problem with words when they are singing. To help improve their condition, they may sing the sentences they would like to speak, concentrating on the musical pattern of what they are saying rather than the words themselves.
7. Put simply, words and music are dealt with by different sides of the brain. Producing a detailed textual and musical interpretation of a song is a complex task, involving a large number of connecting activities between both sides of the brain. This ability is enhanced with practice, training and experience. The mature singer, alert to the needs of text as well as music in a song, could be said to possess a unique mental balance between the emotions expressed in music, and the intellect expressed in words.
