Musical first aid
All of us have a first aid kit at home. What is less usual is to have a song list on hand, created by ourselves to make us feel better. Music therapy is online!
Digital platforms suchas Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and You Tube Music can become our best allies to promote specific moods. And the fact is that all of them have their roots in psychoacoustics, the study of the effects of sound on consciousness. In other words, as sounds influence our moods, let us use them to help to reach a state of well-being. These platforms already offer playlists for all moods – joy, relaxation, sadness, inspiration, concentration, but if you create a completely personal list you will obtain a bonus, as we are all unique. To start off, write down the emotions or moods generated by certain songs in you. Then, create a list on any music platform with these melodies, so that they are available whenever you want to “activate” a specific mood.
“Knowing which music makes us happy means being able to alter our own reality,” the pianist and music teacher Maureen McCarthy Draper once said. We have never had it so easy and so accessible.
