#46
Music has transformational power.
If you don't believe me, listen to the science:
music enhances your thinking and decision-making
music makes you a better communicator
music boosts your immune system
music can evoke (long-lost) memories
music can help you be a better analyst
music increases dopamine levels (your happy hormone)
Music guides us into a more balanced state, offering a stage for our heart and mind to dance side by side.
Let’s say we tend to overthink. Listening to music helps us leave our “thinking zone” and enter our “feeling zone”. And vice versa, if we’re getting lost in our feelings, music gives us the safe space to express the heavy emotions into comprehensive thoughts and words.
The question is how do you approach music in your life!
1. GOT FAVOURITE ALBUMS?
When you find an album that you can’t get enough of, even after years of listening, it’s often because this album has allowed you to feel and release any emotions that were previously stuck within you. So anytime that you go back to it, it almost feels therapeutic by default. The body memory relives the freeing experience all over again.
My advice to you – keep listening!
For me it’s Kings of Leon’s “Only By The Night”. No other album has given me such power to create (in other words, to find my own power within).
2. SEE YOUR FAVOURITE ARTISTS LIVE?
Have you had a chance to see some of your favourite albums come to life in front of you? I’m talking about live gigs!
When we experience music in the presence of others who feel similarly about the particular songs we like, we connect with them on a soul level, even if we don’t actually talk to each other. It’s about being present and allowing yourself to get immersed in the moment. The best way to experience life really!
3. REPLAY SOME REALLY RANDOM TUNES?
Sometimes a song gets stuck in your mind and until you listen to it, it doesn’t want to go away. So take 5 minutes out of your routine and play the song. Listen to the lyrics and the notes. How does it make you feel? What does it remind you of?
Music communicates with our internal world in a way that we can’t fully explain. But when we allow the songs to guide us, we learn lessons about us and the world around us that help us be more present and more authentically ourselves. Magic!
