{"id":94,"date":"2023-12-25T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamabearsprep.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2023-12-25T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T18:21:59","slug":"does-music-release-my-emotions-and-help-me-feel-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamabearsprep.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Does Music Release My Emotions and Help Me Feel Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mamabearsprep-com.preview-domain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Does-Music-Release-My-Emotions-and-Help-Me-Feel-Better_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does Music Release My Emotions and Help Me Feel Better?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>March 1, 2021&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mamabearsprep-com.preview-domain.com\/author\/kristyfpetersonprepper\/\">Kristy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lesley Gore - No More Tears Left To Cry\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kyqdyhNfLuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost exactly a year ago I suffered through a really traumatic experience.&nbsp; Probably one of THE hardest things I have ever had to endure alone that was only affecting my self-esteem and self-worth.&nbsp; In all honesty, I was being really dramatic and as far perspective this event wasn\u2019t that big of a deal.&nbsp; But I felt like my whole entire world that I built with my ideas and my time was being taken away from me, because it was.&nbsp; That event caused me to feel depressed, I felt useless and maybe even worse \u2013 I felt worthless. &nbsp;I wasn\u2019t sure what my new place in this world was going to be and I didn\u2019t want a new place.&nbsp; I loved where I was.&nbsp; After walking out of that situation completely composed and steel faced like a robot, I came home.&nbsp; I locked myself in my bedroom and threw my gut wrenched body on my king sized bed.&nbsp; I screamed into a pillow or maybe three and the tears started flowing.&nbsp; I am not crier.&nbsp; I actually hate crying.&nbsp; I feel super awkward when people around me cry and I just don\u2019t really know what to do.&nbsp; I freeze up.&nbsp; I physically felt ill, I was going to puke, I was shaking uncontrollably.&nbsp; I couldn\u2019t function and even worse I didn\u2019t want to.&nbsp; My kids and my husband could not help me, even though they wanted to.&nbsp; This was something, I was going to have to come to terms with and I would have to figure out exactly how to pull myself out of this funk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What seemed like an eternity of ugly crying, which was probably only an hour or two but yet 39 years of build up, I had the thought that I should listen to some music.&nbsp; Remember I told you, I hate to cry \u2013 and the lyrics from the super old song, No More Tears by Lesley Gore popped into my head.&nbsp; I remembered back 25 to 30 years ago as a kid my parents had old vinyl records and a record player.&nbsp; I loved snooping around through their records and listening to the music that those records contained.&nbsp; I would imagine in my mind that I lived during that era, I loved my parents 1960\u2019s music.&nbsp; It is funny to me how in a moment of desperation I can remember lyrics to a song that I haven\u2019t heard for at least 25 years.&nbsp; Those lyrics say, \u201cForgive my broken heart, but if the tears won\u2019t start.&nbsp; It\u2019s cause I\u2019ve cried and cried until my eyes have run dry.\u201d&nbsp; That was exactly how I felt at that moment.&nbsp; I was done crying.&nbsp; I no longer wanted to be upset by the traumatic experience, I just wanted to move forward and figure out how I could get over this as fast as I could so I could stop crying.&nbsp; I hated the way I felt and I knew it wasn\u2019t a good thing for me to suffer and dwell in this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not super good at feeling my emotions, and probably even worse at expressing or explaining my emotions.&nbsp; Most of the time I actually wish I didn\u2019t have emotions.&nbsp; But my go to emotion is always Anger.&nbsp; Which explains why I listened to grunge alternative music during my teen years in the late 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s.&nbsp; It explains why on my Pandora station I have 90\u2019s Alternative Radio, Jewel Radio, 90\u2019s Pop Radio, Everclear Radio, and Toni Braxton Radio all on rotation in shuffle.&nbsp; Am I the only one who turns to music?&nbsp; I found a study published about patients who were about to have surgery.&nbsp; Participants were randomly selected to either receive anti-anxiety drugs or listen to music, right before the scheduled surgeries.&nbsp; The levels of the stress hormone cortisol and the patients rating of their anxiety was tracked.&nbsp; The patients who listened to music had less anxiety and lower levels of cortisol than the people who took the anti-anxiety drugs.&nbsp; So What?&nbsp; Music is more powerful than drugs?&nbsp; The study went on to say that more research needs to be done because this is only one study but those results blew me away.&nbsp; It made we wonder if the music is what pulled me out of my traumatic experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently saw a video of a cute little boy that has down syndrome singing along to his sister playing on the guitar, you are my sunshine.&nbsp; The little boy has only recently learned how to talk and his parents are attributing the music to his talking.&nbsp; My son Riley, who is 22 years old, suffers with a rare form of epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS).&nbsp; Ever since he was born he has always had this obsession with music. He loves it and although his vocabulary is also limited he can sing songs.&nbsp; He even sings songs that are old or that I had no idea he had listened to before.&nbsp; Somehow, even though he can\u2019t tell you the difference between a penny and a quarter he can always remember a song.&nbsp; The really awesome thing about Riley is that he can even tell you who sings the song, or which of his caregivers listens to the song.&nbsp; This kid functions at a 2 year old level, but can think outside of himself to tell you WHO loves the song, fascinating right?&nbsp; I found an article that researchers studied 21 people and found that listening to favorite songs changed the connections between auditory brain areas and a region in their brain responsible for memory and social emotion strength.&nbsp; It also went on to say that each individual has preferences for their type of music.&nbsp; In MRI\u2019s completely different areas of their brains lit up when they listened to their favorite types of music or music they didn\u2019t like.&nbsp; The research I found, definitely shows strong links to music, your emotions, your mood and your brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toddler with Down syndrome sings with sister in video thanks to music therapy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swo-I2Bl3zY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So how or what does this mean?&nbsp; To me, I know without a doubt, I would still be crying on my king size bed if the lyrics to a song I heard 25 years previously had not popped into my head.&nbsp; If I would not have gotten up and went to my Samsung Bluetooth soundbar and connected my cellphones youtube application to sing my heart out with Lesley Gore, I would never have come out of my funk.&nbsp; It did not happen in a second and even almost a year later I still sometimes feel sadness of that situation.&nbsp; I am overcoming my hidden emotions and I am so grateful that I get to rock on with some really great music to light up different areas of my brain through this transition.&nbsp; Music is really important and beneficial, I am so glad I live in a day and age where I have access to so much music.&nbsp; Now I gotta go dance and listen to some great tunes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources Cited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/15\/health\/brain-music-research\/index.html https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/04\/170412181341.htm https:\/\/www.ashford.edu\/online-degrees\/student-lifestyle\/how-does-music-affect-your-brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Music Release My Emotions and Help Me Feel Better? 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