Music and the mind

“One good thing about music: when it hits you, you feel no pain.” 

Bob Marley

Music offers peace with the world as well as with oneself. It has the power to unshackle from anguish and distress. A tuneful soul gets contained with happiness. Music offers celebration as the dopamine rush in the brain contends serenity and gratification. Harmony in life and staying in tune with thoughts are all metaphorical interpretations of the significance of melody in existence. Pleasurable feelings associated with emotional music are the result of dopamine release in parts of the emotional brain: the same anatomical areas that underprop the pre-emptive and gratifying aspects of drug addiction. There is evidence of synchronous connects in the cardiac (heart) as well as cerebral (brain) functions that are influenced by sound waves of multiple wavelengths. Music affects us in ways we are reasonably unaware of…

Think about it…

We think over 1000 thoughts a minute. This is true for most people not just the highly intellectual ones who think even harder! Thinking is almost involuntary. The mind travels in the vaguest of directions; it is unchained, it is free. To soar to the heights it deems or delve to the depths it desires. A thought is a cognitive activity, something one is aware of in subjective consciousness. Thoughts can be channelized, focused and directed; or they may indeed be muddled and disorganized. They involve arrangements of ideas that may be real or imaginary. Thinking offers meaning to existence. A world without thinking would be relatively meaningless. Thoughts are the most important cognitive processes; wherefrom arise emotions, memory and behavior. There is little one can do in this world without thinking. We occasionally remark when we hear something we feel is bizarre: 

• What were you even thinking?
• What do you think of yourself?
• Do you think before you talk?
• What do you think about this?

We think about thinking more than we are even aware...