Music has always played an important part in our daily lives, it affects our mind, and consequently our mood. After food, clothes, and shelter, music is an important material need of ours.
Depending on the type of music, it can have an extremely beneficial effect on our lives. Music has tremendous healing power. It helps to alleviate stress and depression, can enhance study, assist meditation, and aid sleep. Today, even dentists are offering their patients classic musical as opposed to anesthetic.
It’s important though, that the music is chosen with care. Have you noticed how the erratic jarring music that blares out of so many cars, clubs and pubs seems to stir up anger and violence in it’s followers?
In contrast, the soft harmonious sounds of beautiful classical music such as Debussy and Chopin, invokes calm and peace. Such music can calm the mind, soothe the soul, lift the spirit and lower blood pressure.
As Martin Luther King once observed, ‘music makes people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable’.
Study is another area where music plays an important role. Here the preferred music is that of Mozart, and great baroque composers.
Don’t forget your plants, they too are sensitive to music. They thrive on and respond to beautiful music. A favorite type of music for plants, is something like Elgin, and ‘gardens in the rain’ by Debussy.
No matter whether you want to work, study, rest or play, listen to some inspirational music today, make it a habit and change your life for the better.



