Everywhere I walk, you can see me with my I-pod. Whether it’s a jean pocket, jacket pocket, or even in my hand, music is known to follow me around my home. Better than bell around my neck, music plays a vital role in my life.
Can you say the same?
Music:
The endless combination of notes, instruments, and words supply us with an artistic form of communication. Even when we lack the knowledge to comprehend the language, music can bond us.
When we stop to think about the amount of money, time, and investment we place upon the music and people that fill our life, it becomes clear that music has an importance to us.
As a musician and avid listener, I want to spend this post calling your attention to the importance the music we choose has.
The Importance of Music:
If you were to scroll through my many playlists you would find a wide range of genres and topics. Each song offers something unique. Whether it’s song lyrics that resonate with us or melodies that we are left humming, music in its many varieties fill the air.
In the world of affirmations, we learn that the words, phrases, and inner thoughts that we have, have the ability to shape our self-worth and the life we lead. Due to this reason, we utilize the tool of affirmations to impact our inner thoughts.
Changing the toxic and dysfunctional messages into healing and supportive ones.
While affirmations are generally phrasing or sentences, music acts as affirmations as well.
For this reason, we need to analyze and consider the music we choose to listen to.
Song Lyrics: Do you know what they’re telling you?
When you plug in your headphones and rock out, do you know the lyrics of the music? Even when you get lost in the things you’re doing; do you know what subliminal messages you’re sending to yourself?
When the words of a song live on repeat for days, months, and years the message sticks with us. The only question then is what kind of message is it?
What to do with our music.
When music has the important role of integrating and influencing our lives, it becomes our responsibility to consider what we’re choosing. Are they messages of worth or of self-harm?
The artists and the songwriters can choose their words. But whether or not we choose to support their choices is up to us. If that song makes it onto your playlist or not.
Many Genres, Many Messages:
I have spent my life amassing a collection of a wide range of songs. As the years has gone by, I started to clean up my vocabulary. I want to the words I choose to say, to reflect a loving perception on life.
I don’t want nor do I need words that tear me down. As a result, I started to listen to the music I owned and was astounded by what I found. Or more accurately what I heard.
Songs I had owned for years became songs that left me cringing at the self-deprecation. Which leads me to this moment, and some advice I want to share with you.
My Advice:
As you journey this path of healing and into a world of happiness, things change. How you view and experience the world changes. When this change occurs, take responsibility for the power music has.
Choose to only purchase new songs that match the messages you want to introduce into your mind. And also honor your old favorites.
There’s something about childhood memories that leave songs, even dysfunctional ones, hard to give up.
Rather than giving them up, just remember to remind yourself when they play that they represent a path (of pain) that you don’t want to take.
Other than that, my last piece of advice is to rotate your music. Since we often pick music that matches the mood we are in, there are times when heartbreak songs are accurate.
When this is the case, choose heartbreak songs that aren’t dysfunctional and when the heartbreak is healing, rotate what’s up next. In this way we can help guy and heal ourselves with the very sounds that lift smiles into wide grins.
Final Thoughts:
Music spans centuries. It spans countries and languages. With the power to unite and heal, it’s no wonder why I love it so much. Utilize this gift of sound, to help you thrive in life. To heal, to love, and to know happiness.