As I’m sitting down to write this week’s blog I’m listening to the “Les Miserables Live! The 2010 Cast Album”. The music in this soundtrack has a wide gamut of emotional connections, from big powerful numbers that get your heart rate up to those that are soft and tender that will bring tears to your eyes.
Such is the power of music.
What a blessing to live in a world with music! Music has the uncanny ability to:
- Encourage
- Soothe and calm us
- Get us fired up
- Focus our thinking (or make us think)
- Distract us
- Make us laugh
- Make us cry
- Create connections
- Tell stories
- Heal us
- Set a mood
- Trigger memories
- Create memories…
… and that’s just the beginning of a very long list!
If you’re not already doing so, look for way to integrate music into your daily routine. In addition, explore new types of music you may not normally listen to. You may discover a whole new genre that you really resonate with.
And what a blessing that would be.