By Lee
Music and the Brain
Music is a force to be reckoned with
It stimulates your entire brain.
Music improves mental health.
It heals the wounds of your mind.
There is so much music,
And so little time.
So much to listen to
But how can I listen to it all
With so little time.
How music can be a cure,
How it could heal you better than any Zoloft ever will.
It breathes life back into you and your mind.
Like CPR.
It keeps your heart pumping.
Keeps your lungs breathing.
Sometimes I feel like I owe my life to music.
I don’t want to die,
but music has saved me nonetheless.
I don’t know who I would be without music.
What I would be.
It is one of my biggest comforts in life.
I love when my music is so loud I can’t think.
My thoughts are drowned and held underwater,
Their sound is muffled and distant.
The only thing going through my mind is the
music.
Tingling and paving it’s own path through the soul.
Sometimes people can do the same thing.
As music.
We nourish each other and bring joy.
We build each other up.
We save each other.
Funny how
Humans have such a hard time being emotional.
We don’t trust each other.
We don’t want to feel vulnerable.
Fun fact about music,
when you listen to sad music all the time it can have a negative effect on your mental health.
Depressing music
Can make you depressed.
Funny how
Music can be your only escape from depression,
But also help build your depression,
Help sustain the base.
Help it last.
This is somewhat rooted in emotional contagion.
Emotions are contagious.
Infectious.
The emotions that reverberate through a room
That are stemmed in the thoughts of the people
Around you
And the music around you
Can uplift you
And they can an infect your mind.
My emotions infect me.
They are infecting those around me.
I don’t want my emotions to pool on the floor around me
Bleed out of me and climb into everyone’s minds
I don’t want to bring others down
I don’t want others to feel what I feel
And think what I think.
I don’t want to make those around me suffer.
I don’t know how to save people from me.
Save them from my destructive emotions.
Save them from my music.