How People Misuse Music
In this beautiful world everyone loves music but many
people don’t know how use it as their energy. Everyone knows that listening to music while feeling down
or bad can provide a relief. What may not be known to most people is that music
can also reduce stress, make depression more bearable and help you relax.
There is even an expanding field of therapy called music
therapy which depends on using music for healing. The big problem is that some
people misuse the effect of music by listening to random songs that contain
negative messages and so make themsleves feel worse.
What
Are the Benefits of Music?
Music has lots of benefits, here are few of them:
Reducing stress: Music can relax your muscles and help
you reduce your breathing rate. Both of these actions are directly related to
reducing stress and can assist you in making your life less stressful .
Makes you happy: Music can stimulate your body to produce
serotonin (the happiness hormone) and so elevate your mood.
Alter your brain waves: Music can alter your brain wave
pattern and so elevate your mood even after you stop listening to it.
Motivates you: I am sure you listened to one or more
songs that made you feel more motivated one day
How
People Misuse Music
All the previously mentioned benefits of music can only
be reaped if the listener enjoyed the music he is listening to. If the listener
dislikes the music or finds it boring then it will have a negative effect on
him instead of a positive one.
Now lets examine what most of us do when it comes to
listening to music. We usually just listen to a Play list and allow a program
like win-amp to randomly select the songs we are going to listen to.
This is where the problem lies. What if you liked the
first song but found the second one boring? What if the third one was a
motivating song while the fourth didn't resonate with your emotions? What do
you think the result will be??
What you'll have is an emotional mess!! The first song
will lift your mood a little, the second will make you a little bored, the
third will motivate you and then the fourth will put you down. In the end
you'll end up feeling worse than before.
I strongly recommend dividing your play list into
different small lists. For example, a list for relaxation, a list for
motivation and so on. Another very important thing you must do is to get rid of
all of the old music that you are bored of.
After all, it doesn't take more than listening to the
first five seconds of any of these songs for your mood to swing.
In my book How to get over anyone in few days i pointed
out how the music you listen to can delay your recovery from breakups by months
and months!! people who listen to romantic songs after breakups recover 10
times slower than those who don't, so beware of your play list if you want to
recover faster.
Beware
of the Anchors
Have you ever listened to a song then suddenly remembered
a past situation? This happens because your mind has previously associated both
events with each other so that when one of them occurred you just recalled the
second. This is what’s called an anchor.
Watch out for any songs that are anchored to your bad
memories. When your random music player chooses this song you are likely to
feel down.
Some songs contain negative words and phrases that are
much more destructive than negative self-talk.
Some songs also contain messages that can program your
mind and results in creating new beliefs. by consistently repeating a negative
message over and over it can turn into a solid belief.
A poplar example would be any love song that contains a
phrase like “I cant live without you”. The more you will listen to this song
the more you will be programming your mind with such a belief and the more
likely you are to end up feeling desperate when you break up with someone.
Image Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1392179
Post a Comment