Making Music Medicine

In order to understand how music may become toxic, let's learn in this lecture about your subconscious mind and the primary way it is believed to interact with our conscious mind. You will learn where music lives in our brain and which part of our brain is believed to be responsible for processing and triggering our emotions.

Explore how music makes you feel, identifying when music may become toxic for you.

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Strategy #3:  Identify self-medication habits using music to avoid toxicity, staying trapped in unsettledness.

Strategy #4: Practice emotional fluidity understanding subconscious motivations of music listening habits.

Strategy #5: Adjust music listening habits to create a cathartic mood continuum resulting in reduced unsettledness and more peace and joy.

Identify and analyze a theme song to increase awareness of how theme songs relate to life conditions.

Strategy #7 - Journal your preferred music experiences using the journaling chart (downloadable).

Strategy #8 - Observe your cumulative personal music listening profile, compiling information gathered from: the Self-Assessment; regular journaling of preferred music; and information derived from your Theme Song Profile quiz.

You will learn that toxic music lives in danger zones that may aid or hinder healing processes.

Strategy #9 Develop physiological awareness of the chemical effects of music to make best decisions applying music prescriptively.

You will observe the effects of kinesiology on specific beat patterns to discover what music may support muscle strength or weakness, thereby guiding prescriptive music listening strategies.

For instance, avoid anapestic beats at times in which aligning the central and peripheral nervous systems during physical fitness training aim at building muscle strength. Anapestic beats disrupt the signal transmission and weaken the muscular structure. Simply: the muscle blows out.

The anapestic beat also opposes the heartbeat, wherein the stress beat is on 1 rather than on 3. Therefore, music exhibiting a strong anapestic beat typically does not align with the heartbeat to induce deep relaxation.

Strategy #10 - Identify anapestic beats when applying music prescriptively to learn what beats to avoid during physical fitness training aimed at building muscle strength.

Learn about three more strategies.

Strategy #12 - Identify 3 ways you relate to music and recognize how those relationships connect to your health story four ways. Then, make music choices based on prescriptive music applications.

Strategy #13 - Distinguish music listening habits that may create hard-to-identify Chronic Unsettled Comfort Zones™.

Strategy #14 - Learn about cleansing your moods with prescriptive music listening applying Music Medicine Pills™.

Strategy #16 - Build a balanced music diet that keeps you emotionally fit.

Strategy #17 - Access private listening spaces to avoid triggering someone into injurious behaviors towards self or others.