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How Music Affects Our Moods

Tulika Nair
Music can be overwhelming. It can make us feel emotions we were unaware of. How music affects our moods is a subject that has been studied deeply. It has always played a major role in uplifting or even lowering down your mood.
Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "Without music, life would be a mistake."

It is probably a sentiment that most of us would agree with without any form of challenge. Music is almost omnipresent, existing in infinite things around us.
Every time you listen to a piece of music you are taken back to a memory, something that you associate with that particular lilting tune. Not only does music bring back memories, it can also at many levels affect how we feel.
How many times have you listened to a beautifully sung sad ballad and felt tears streaming down your face? And how many times has a song with a cheerful tempo made you smile? Music has a power that not many other things do. Music can have a profound effect on your mood, and here, we will take a look at the effect of music on our moods.

The Effect of Music on One's Mood

Have you ever wondered as to why malls, restaurants, and even movie theater lobbies have music playing? Well, to understand this simply just look back at how you have felt when you have heard music play at these places.
Music is known to enhance how a customer feels and playing the right type of music can help people feel better and also brighten the ambiance of the place.
Often music also has an effect on your concentration and can help you increase your levels of focus. Music helps the secretion of endorphins thereby helping patients feel positive and help them heal faster and better.
Depression is a state of mind that most of us experience at some point of time or the other. There are periods in our life when everything can seem difficult and inadequate. It can seem like everything is going downhill and you have absolutely no control over your life. Studies have shown that music can be a major mood lifter in such situations.
Music is known to help increase the levels of serotonin in your brain thus reducing depression. Music also plays a great role in reducing anxiety. Anxiety can often cause lack of sleep and other related disorders.
Listening to music can help calm the nerves and reduce the anxiety one is experiencing. The effects of music on the mind and brain is something that has been the subject of many studies.
Music is often known as the international language. We may not know the language another person is speaking but most of us respond to music in the same manner. If the tempo is upbeat, you will dance to the music, if it is slow, soulful number, you will sway it.
Music can often be the best way to connect with someone. It is one of the best ways to enhance your moods, but this can depend a lot on the kind of music you listen to. While happy music can definitely make you feel better, sad music can further drown your spirits.
Listening to classical music can often make you feel a lot more powerful while soft lilting music can be the perfect way to unwind at the end of a long day.
If you want to use music to change the way you are feeling, you need to understand how it affects you. Learn to recognize the kind of music that elevates your mood and helps you feel better.
Once you are aware of the kind of music you can use, you can use it to change the way you feel. The right kind of music can be the perfect to way feel more euphoric. In order to allow music to affect your mood, you need to have the requisite faith that it will work.
At the most basic of levels, all music does is entertain us. If you look more closely though music revitalizes us, it thrills us, makes us feel powerful, is a distraction, can be a great way to make us more creative, and can help us connect with something we were unaware of or had forgotten.
In the 2007 movie August Rush, the titular character says, "Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind... in the air... in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do... is listen." If you want to know how music affects our moods, all you need to do... is feel.