music brings life..Seth M.R.Jaipuria School Khalilabad.

When my body doesn't want to behave the way we think it should, when the signals aren't working properly, I tune into music. I get out the choir [guide tracks], and I look at the [sheet music] … and I'll sway and I'll dance on the spot. It gets that cognitive conversation happening … to get me moving again," she says.

Rockelle says learning about how to engage and switch between her chest voice and head voice has been helpful for regulating her breathing during bouts of extreme anxiety or panic attacks.

The academic jury is still out on exactly how singing in a group affects our levels of oxytocin — that warm, fuzzy feel-good brain chemical.

Professor Wilson says we know singing directly activates the brain's reward network, and there is evidence to suggest choir practice can reduce cortisol levels — an indicator of stress — and even boost immune function.

In two recent studies that measured hormone response in choir singers — one from the University of Regensburg in 2017, and a smaller pilot study from the University of Toronto in Canada in 2021 — researchers found that positive effects of singing were more pronounced after group singing compared with solo singing.

In addition, Professor Wilson explains that choir singing engages the mirror neuron system, which plays a powerful part in social bonding.

"When we have a verbal conversation, we can't do it together, we have to take turns — otherwise, it's impossible, we're just talking over each other. Whereas singing is this one chance where we get to use our voices in unison," she says.

"Our brain activity is mirroring each other. That activates our own circuitry, and it helps us put ourselves in their shoes. And that facilitates that bonding that we experience when we're singing in a choir."

Its so, we Jaipurians enjoy singing.
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