How Music Affects Emotions, is your music helping you?

What are you listening to. Learn more about how Music affects emotions, is your music hurting you or helping you?

There are many researchers who claim that music, as well as the media and your environment can affect the physical body by reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, lower levels of cortisol (associated with stress), increase levels of melatonin (induces sleep), and precipitates the release of endorphins (body’s natural painkiller). However, researchers have yet to explain why and how music affects our emotions, and emotional body.

We do know that soothing music has a very relaxing and healing affect on our emotions. Especially soothing music accompanied by a guided healing meditation.

Music can help bring about positive changes in mood and emotional states with the right kind of melodies and words. Listening to a happy, upbeat melody with lyrics that are positive are useful when you are feeling lethargic and sad, just as listening to angry, sharp music with negative lyrics can transform your original happy state into an angry, depressed one.

Scary music will, along with a scary movies, evoke fear and can, in fact, have damaging effects such as creating a lack of trust and numbing your emotions and thus, the emotional body.

It is important that during times of transition and healing, you choose appropriate music to listen to, as well as occasionally opting for a quiet sacred space to enjoy it. Appropriate music is that which will soothe and support you. It will fill your heart with joy and love.

For instance, if you are feeling sad, and have suffered from some kind of loss, you may want to choose music which contains sad lyrics about losing someone special because it resonates. However, that is not the type of support you need. You need music that will support your healing from the sadness and then transforming your sadness into happiness. Choosing music to synchronize with your sad, angry, or depressed state, only serves to perpetuate that state, and usually puts you into victim consciousness. That is most certainly where you do not want to be.

Be loving and nurturing to yourself by choosing music that reflects that. You are on a path of joy and love, so always choose music which lovingly supports you on your journey. Whether the melodies are a beautiful symphony, acoustic harmony, or even music that gets you moving and dancing, it doesn’t matter.

Pam has helped many individuals in making the right choices for self. You can listen to how she can assist you and remember; music affects your emotions, so what matters is you choose whatever is best for you and fuels your joy!