Music and Our Emotions

Music can be an exciting tool to help us describe how we feel! Music is a universal language that has been known to have healing, relaxing, soothing, calming, and de-stressing effects. Music is everywhere - from listening to the birds outside our windows, to hearing background music in movies, to being plugged into our iPods, radios, CDs. And, of course, playing a musical instrument or singing.

 

Music can bring up a full range of human emotions, including:

• Happy or Sad - Music can lift our mood, make us smile or laugh or feel sad and even make us cry.
• Energetic - Rhythms in music can make us move faster and help with physical exercise.
• Scared - Music can make us feel scared or tense, like during a 'dark' moment in a movie.
• Calm - Certain music can help our minds slow down and help us relax!
• Love - Music can be used to express love and as a sign of affection.

Most of all though, playing music makes people happy! There are few things in this world that can be compared to music.