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February 18, 2008
Lift your mood with music
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
If you sit down and pay attention to how music makes you feel you realize how powerfully it can affect your emotions. And not just your emotions. According to some studies, music actually stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers. This stimulation has been linked to health benefits, including lower blood pressure, reduced pain, and improved sleep.
Today, take a little time to listen to music that makes you feel positive and happy. Enjoy the feeling knowing that you’re also doing something good for your health.
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Music has the POWER! You can turn on your favorite tunes while doing housework to lift the spirits. The kids LOVE when I turn on music and we DANCE! Great exercise and we have a good time!
I love all kinds of music. Yes, I agree that music can set or break ones spirit. At night time when I am unwinding from my day, I’ll turn on my shaman cd and immediatly transformed into a meditated space. I fall asleep before the cd ends. While driving, cleaning house, gardening or what ever, music is on. Music soothes the savage beast!
I’m going to try listening to music at work. Things get crazy in my office and I think a little Duke Ellington will calm things down where it counts.
John McLaughlin is my favorite singer to listen to when I am feeling down.
I literally cannot focus on my work if I don’t have music going. I am someone who feels moved my my own personal soundtrack. lol. So I immediately turn on pandora.com as soon as I get to work so I can keep going and keep energized without drinking gallons of coffee!
It never fails. If your mood is low add some great music to bring it up.