Does Music Help You?

[Jagged Angel]

I find that when I listen to music, I am calmer than if I, say, watch TV. Naturally it depends on the music - I don't listen to things like Death Metal, or Speed Metal as I have synaesthesia and 'see' the music so really heavy and violent music bothers me. I like most other kinds of music, particularly rock, and have discovered over the years that Meat Loaf has a song for every mood, every moment!

When I'm having a really bad day, music helps. It keeps me from bursting out into wild rages and breaking things, or hurting myself (or someone else!).

I am wondering if other people find that music 'soothes the savage beast', and what sort of music they find helps the most.

 

[heather q]

Music has the opposite effect on me, I'm trying to figure out what the trigger in music is. If I'm ok, sometimes I can handle it if it's quiet, but anything loud, drum beats, repettitive sounds causes anxiety. Hearing music from someone's car triggers me, to me it is scary noise. I believe it started after a car accident, I went dancing and ran out of the building in a terrible state of anxiety, at the time I didn't know what anxiety was so I got even more scared of what was going on. I'd like to change this, even in supermarkets I can hardly stand to be there because of the noise, it's causing problems for me at work as well.

I sleep with the tv on but if a musical comes on I'm wide awake, I have to sleep to 'talking' shows. That alone doesn't help intimate relationships.

I have tried to listen to music to soothe me, but it ends up being more agitating, even if it is designed to soothe it just doesn't work for me, this seems backwards to me, I don't understand it.

Heather

 

[Deleted member 541]

If I can listen to the music, and get into it, then it takes my mind off of where I don't want it to go. So, yes, it does help at times. Other times it makes me depressed, because of much of music is about life, it's problems, situations, relationships, ect......

 

[Grama-Herc]

Music is a very relaxing sensation, but it needs to be a lilt type with a hint of oriental
flavor in it. The best for me includes sounds of nature

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Music has gotten me through just about everything. When I am going through a rough time, I tend to attach myself to a particular CD and listen to it obsessively. I can put in a CD from my past and remember certain times in my life just by listening to the music that I have mentally attached to particular points in my life.

 

[crocodillan]

I tend to listen to like one or two songs incessantly to help me through things....after that, it depends on my mood but I would say yes it helps. I tendvto focus on lyrics more than anything but musical composition helps as well

 

[SunnyBrookFarm]

It's a fine line for me - I listen to soft classical to help with my sleep issues and it works really well. Somedays I can "rock out" so to speak to relieve some anxiety - but if I'm in a depressive state - I have to be careful of music because it all seems to be written for me and trying to tear out my soul. So I guess the short answer is - sometimes it really helps and other times I have to cut it off.

 

[Lobo]

It works both ways for me. Being a Nam vet..some of the old rock triggers me....some of the newer stuff is ok.

Lobo

 

[Luthien]

I use music to help me all the time. I do listen to Black and Speed metal when I am angry, and find it calms me right down. (nothing like listening to a song about nuking the whole earth to vent some anger..lol)

I posted a topic awhile ago called "Music To Change Our Minds" that included some of the music I like to listen to relax my mind, and for motivation to clean ect. I find the songs I mentioned there are actually capable of putting me right into a different mindset.

Right now I am listening to a new guy that I discovered recently called "Matisyahu". His is very happy, chill out ,music, and I am loving it, though I must say it isn't my usual style..

Other groups that I love just for the feel of the music and the images they bring to my mind are Deep Forest, Bonobo, and Quantic.

I am a soprano and classical singer in a Symphonic Metal band, and find that singing that type of music, with the force and emotion it requires is also a very beneficial thing for me.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE music, and use it in my everyday life to calm, soothe, motivate, induce tears, get happy..ect.

Thanks for an interesting thread :)

 

[Mina]

I find that music does help me. If I'm triggered or agitated, I often oscillate between metal and classical...sometimes I switch back and forth all day. I do listen to other kinds as well, but only when I'm already in an okay state. My bedtime CD is one of those calming instrumental only ones you buy from the kiosk at Target, called "Lifescapes: Unwind: Quiet the Mind and Body."

I have recently noticed that I find it quite refreshing when the music is in a language I don't speak! Has anyone else found this? My father brought back some CDs from South Africa, where his friend's son (Theuns Jordaan) is quite popular. He sings in Afrikaans. I really enjoy it, although I don't understand a word, and I don't think it's at all what I would choose if it were in English. For some reason, I seem to enjoy it more because I cannot understand the words. I do tend to pay attention to lyrics, and notice that they can spur certain feelings and states of mind...and this is more about just the sound of the music and the tone of voice. Today my chiropractor was also playing a CD in another language, something tribal, and I quite liked it. :smile:

 

[Noone.]

Hey yes I love it.
Put's a little stride in my glide.
Turn it up.

FIRE

 

[fin]

I have found this also Mina .. I love the soundtrackf ro lost in translation and there arent many songs in my language, they do seem to be all Japanese and it was at one time very very soothing to me. I should probably get that back out again as I am listening to music again since I have been working through here.

I find energetic music now during the day and it helps me to write it out too, the lyrics if I go to them... and I can here them when I go out, theyhelp me focus on the better things perhaps. And it is for sure a healthyier distraction for me than drink was at on etime years ago now, but then the anxiety did get worse for a while I remember how bad it could be .. this forum and exposre does work and it works well. Thankyou again~

Wow thankyou for this thread Jagged Angel it is awesome to realise somethings