Music and Emotions: 5 Emotions Music Can Impact

Saddness

Ever find yourself moved to tears by music? It is well known that music can move us to tears…and oddly enough we love it. Usually, when a song makes you sad it is because of one of two things, it triggered a memory or you have a connection to the lyrics or musical elements. But people also run to sad songs to serve a function for them. They either run to music to help them process their emotions, help them put things into perspective, or just to escape silence which can overwhelm people in hard times. Listen to this music example and see if it makes you feel sad.

Empowered

Studies have shown that listening to heroic music stimulates empowering and motivating thoughts. Those who listen to heroic music reported feeling more positive, alert, motivated, active, inspired, and more courageous. If you listen to heroic music when you “zone out” it can help your mind empower itself and take on the world.

Anxious

Yes, music can stress you out. Ask any professional music! But seriously, listening to certain types of music can cause anxiety. Imagine listening to the violin screech from Psycho all day...no one would survive that.

Composers use this to create tension and release in their compositions and modern composers use it to purposely make you feel uneasy to get a point across. Listen to “Threnody of the Victims of Hiroshima” for an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilGthRhwP8

Relaxed

While music can make you feel like you can take on the world, it also can help you escape the world and relax. Music has been used for hundreds of years to restore the mind and body. Music connects with the automatic nervous season, which is where your feelings and emotions live.

You can sit and meditate with music to relax but you can also use music to relax while getting ready for your day, during a commute to avoid road rage, while trying to make a deadline, or as you are getting ready for bed! Relaxation music and sounds have been proven to help alleviate anxiety and kickstart the feeling of peace.

Love

Music connects us emotionally. Some of our greatest memories have soundtracks, from our first kiss, what song you walk down the aisle to. It is even possible for you to form emotional connections to the music itself!

Studies have proven that couples who listen to music out loud have more romance and argue less. It can also lead to more feelings of love because of the learned associations we have made with it from lyrics, movies, or tv shows.

All in all, we know that music brings us together and affects our mood. Music is part of our everyday life whether you realize it or not. In movies, tv shows, softly playing at the coffee shop or restaurant you are at, music is everywhere.

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