Hearing the Rhythm of Life

By admin | August 9, 2009

Music, because of its specific and jar-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein, composer

J.F YOU REALLY WANT TO CHANGE VOUr brain waves, a good place to start is with a song. Consider for a moment the effect music has had on you in the past. I’m sure you have experienced your mood suddenly lifting when you hear a cheerful song on the radio. Perhaps the songs of your youth have the power to transport you back to a simpler place in time. Or maybe you have even been moved to tears by a grand symphony. You may have even noticed that music can have an effect on your body. Unconsciously your foot begins tapping or your head bobs up and down in time to the rhythm. Occasionally, at some moment when you feel unrestrained by the need to retain personal decorum, you let loose and start dancing around the room.

These are magical moments, brief segments oi time during which you are transported beyond the limits of your body into the much larger, universal world of rhythm and movement.

In reality, when you respond to a piece of music, nothing actually changes in the world around you. Do you respond to a happy tune with a smile because that song somehow fixed all your problems? Of course not. Your life condition remains the same, with or without the song. But something did change— something within your brain—that allowed your perspective on life to change as well.

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