Ever wondered why when you listen to loud and popular music beats, your heart begins to pound. The blood begins to flow and you feel all active and energised? Also the reverse is true for softer songs. When you listen to soothing music your heartbeat also calms down. Some music which is soothing may be considered romantic as well.

While no music listener will doubt the fact that music really affects their mood, a number of physiological experiments have also been conducted to back up the effect music has on pour physical bodies. Now scientists have come up with a possible explanation as to why the sound of music affects us so very deeply.

Foetuses can experience external sounds when they are six months in the womb. By the end of the second trimester the mother’s heartbeat is easily heard and when it rises the baby begins to associate the sound with the stress that she is feeling.

In essence our response to soothing music is calming but to fast beats is stressed. In a sort of empathic memory based reaction to how we felt our mother’s heart beat race when she was feeling stressed. More science projects may need to be undertaken to establish this as a fact, but the theory is interesting.