Additionally, you can drown out distracting sounds from a noisy office environment or neighborhood with music from your iPod or stereo and enjoy the stress management and health benefits of music while lessening the impact of the other noise. This can also improve your mood, boost your immunity, calm your physiology, or energize you. While you’re really trading some sounds for others, the sounds of nature or music can be more soothing and better for your health.
How To Reduce Noise Pollution and Its Negative Effects
By Elizabeth Scott, M.S., About.com
Updated: November 17, 2007
About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by the Medical Review Board
If You Can't Eliminate The Noise Pollution...
Music can be a healthy replacement for environmental noise. ©iStockPhoto.com
If you can’t eliminate noise from your environment, you can actually create a healthier environment by replacing stress-inducing environmental sounds with more pleasing ones. For example, you can reduce the impact of airport or city noise with a white noise machine or ‘sound spa’. They play sounds ranging from waterfalls to rain to babbling brooks to basic static, and these sounds mask the more jarring environmental noises that can distract you or negatively affect your sleep. They can also make it easier to meditate or practice visualization techniques.
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