Shayne HolzmanMusic inspires us to live our best life. Incorporating music into daily life whether listening to music, appreciating others’ music, or playing music yourself enhances daily life and is beneficial.
Let’s explore how music correlates to enhancing your life. Music inspires me to live my best life. Focusing on what I’m good at helps because I engage in what I enjoy. Not enough people have hobbies. Hobbies are a powerful force that can make hard days just a little more pleasurable. It’s important to love life, as we only live once, so it’s best to enjoy what we have with the time we are given.
How music helps mental health
It’s okay to struggle and it’s okay to feel emotional! However, nothing will change unless we get up and do something about it. Change is uncomfortable and may be hard to do, but doing nothing is the worst thing for your mental health. Doing something gives you a desire to live fully, enjoy who you are, and find the strength to help yourself. It opens a door, and you now have the opportunity to experience giving back by helping yourself and others feel better and do more in life.
In addition, having the will to help yourself and others is the best quality someone can have because when you are connected to yourself you connect to others. This is why I write music and write blogs, to connect with an audience, while focusing on something bigger than myself. When you feel good about life and build upon yourself you then begin to build relationships with people and life becomes beautiful.
Music helps me get things done
Another way to improve life skills is to switch focus to something positive. Even though I find this hard to do sometimes, it is necessary for accomplishing life goals. Sticking to a task in life is extremely important, especially in the workforce. This is why learning how to stick to tasks when doing a hobby, such as music helps me learn the life skill of persistence.
Music helps me learn to accomplish tasks. The ways playing and recording music helps me accomplish tasks outside of music are that I learn how to be disciplined by repeating what I learn over and over again. An example of music helping me get things done is when I write a composition and I have to repeat what I write so I can go forward to memorize and record it.
How Music Helps Me Escape My Struggles
We’re all searching for an escape from our struggles, it’s hard for most to hustle moment by moment. Perhaps overstated, but no matter what goals we want to reach in the future, our goals won’t be completed unless we work on them in the here and now.
Personally, I feel inspired by life when I play music. Music helps me escape the part of me that suffers. The best therapy, in my opinion, is music. For others, this may look vastly different. The best therapy is doing what you enjoy in your life. You will lead a more fulfilling life if you have the drive to do something.
Music helps me explore who I am
Music is the most universal language and the best language to express myself. Another way music helps me is through songwriting. The way that songwriting helps me process hardship is through lyric writing.
For instance, not only what you say matters but how you say it. When we apply a conversational approach to lyric writing, think of communicating with a kind attitude and also a professional demeanor. The way we communicate in life applies to songwriting because great songs have great lyrics. When we listen to lyrics we feel heard, secure, and less alone.
Music helps me use a different part of my brain
When I play music I use a different part of my brain than when I am working, I use the creative side of my brain, which is the right side of my brain. Engaging in left-brain tasks are very difficult for me in terms of being at work because I am aware of my thoughts. Being aware of my thoughts at work is counterproductive. In terms of life skills, I am still learning to live in the moment and focus on the task at hand.
The ways I apply music to work are that when I improvise on piano, my thinking brain shuts off because I am in subconscious mode, in other words, (creative mode). When I improvise, I don’t become aware of what I am doing. I use my intuitive sense and subconscious. Improving on the piano is a different experience because I’m in flow mode. Being in flow mode means that I’m doing a task and not thinking about what I’m doing. In other words, my brain is on autopilot. In conclusion, music improvisation frees me from my thoughts. I’ve explored all the ways that music helps me better myself and hopefully music can enhance your life as well.