Music and Your Emotions
61
The Music of your Life
Have you ever found yourself putting on your favorite song to put a smile on your face? Or how about listening to a sad song when you feel down? Have you ever considered the fact that you are emotionally charged by music?
I can't even count the number of times that I have put on some pop music to uplift my spirits, or when I know that I am going to be on a long car ride and need something to energize me. I have also felt the times where I just feel sad and want to crawl into my bed and cry, I have music for that too.
Love and Music
Scientific Findings
Only recently have scientists begun to explain why we feel this way about music. Music can actually alter our brains, and therefore how our bodies function.
Although this idea of the healing power of music is just starting to be discovered, music therapy is not new. For many years therapists have been using music to relieve stress and pain.
Doctors now believe that using music in hospitals and nursing homes not only make people happier, but they heal faster! How about that for music healing you?
Research is still being done to determine why our bodies react this way. In any case, music has the power to heal. That's good enough for me.
Music and Life
Although music can not keep us from getting our hearts broken or from feeling the pain of a loss or defeat, it does have to power to help us get through these tough times.
If you ever find someone making fun of you for the kind of music that you listen to, just let them know that it is healing you. Hey, we are all charged differently, and it just might be.
Share it! — Rate it: up down [flag this hub]
Comments
I really enjoy music. I grew up as an artist drawing everything I saw. I later turned this to representing things I heard. I love studio work. There is clearly a universal language in music. Perhaps that is beacause we are all human. The human being has basic hardware we are all born to. Music can touch on our values. It is musically/rythmatically that we train our sub-conscious whether we know it or not. Music seems to speak of our collective sub-conscious. I enjoy going back over the 'oldies' and remembering what the social climate was at the time of the song. Modern music seems to be attempting to have the influence it reached at it's zenith in the sixties of social commentary but it is falling far short. I have little regard for even a good singer if they have nothing to say, no matter who they beat out on American Idol. I notice it's about a 50/50 split between what the song has to say and how I felt the first time I heard it: 1975 'Born to Run' and I was hanging out on the main drag in Dallas and kids were driving Trans-Ams, 1974 'teacher I Need You' and the crush I had on my teacher, 1984 'Doves Cry' I was walking through an all night dance club thinking about 3 women I was seeing, 1990 'What I am' and I was opening a restaurant with friends of mine and never to be forgotten the most influencial album of my life 'Sweet Baby James' that I heard my first summer back home in Texas thanks to my babysitter who was obsessed with James Taylor. I here any song off that album and I am hurled back years to an innocent 11 yr old in the hot texas summer.
Music shure has a great power, thank you for sharing.
|
I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love (Album Version)
Price: $0.99
|
|
Your Divorce Advisor
Price: $5.49
List Price: $11.99 |
|
Release Your Emotions (DJ Ray TJ Remix)
Price: $0.99
|
|
Try Your Emotions
Price: $12.95
List Price: $22.99 |
working
Janelle says:
14 months ago
Very true :)