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Sometimes it worries me to find how much effect some songs, some music has on me. When I listen to some songs I feel overwhelmed with emotions and I don’t understand why. It is not just due to a connection to any memory relating to that particular music. Even if there is no personal story or incident to connect that piece of music it still creates a strange heavy emotion in me. At times I wonder if anyone else has that feeling. When I asked they said if they liked the music or something like that but not admitted to having a strange emotion. What is wrong with me then? Why does no one else feel this? Then I said to myself that nothing is wrong with me. The person, who created that music, wrote and sang that song must have felt the same too. It’s the others who didn’t understand that music completely to feel the same way.

Then I realised that music is an expression of one’s deepest inside of heart and mind. It is an expression of one’s deepest emotion to the world. It is a mood that has been passed on to the others. The more emotional you are the more it affects you. The more open, expressive and sensual you are the more it takes over you. You know that listening to the happy music uplifts your mood. Many times when I am sad, a little depressed, I put on a melancholy music. I don’t know why I do that because it makes me more depressed! My choice is first the lyrics and then the tunes. Apart from dance music I am not that keen on just instrumental music. Even my bed time CD is named "sleepy" has Sade songs.

Music most certainly alters our mood, our emotion and our wellbeing. That is why the therapy to reduce stress and anxiety included relaxing music. Music affects our senses and the combination of smell of pleasing fragrance, listening to soothing music; deem light affecting visionary senses puts us in a receptive state for other sensory pleasures.

Only it makes me think that no wonder the majority of youth of our society is brain dead while they are subjecting themselves to the head banging noise through their personal stereos and I pods.

One exception to the effect of music on me is my Sickie’s 24 hour 7days a week of loud music that drives me mad although I loved those songs sometimes in the past and might still love them if I wasn’t punished with them 24/7. Still if his head is full of the music then he might not get other rubbish going in it!