Is your summer as busy as your fall and winter? Are you scurrying around running the kids to one event or another? Or maybe you’re frantically preparing for visiting family members, or going to visit family, or going on vacation. Do you need a vacation from your vacation? Perhaps you need a break.
SuMan and son planning grocery list image via configmanager on Flickr
I’m here to remind you to take some restorative time. A break. It doesn’t have to last a long time. What it must be is something that gives you a lift.
Music does it for me. Doesn’t matter what my mood was before the music starts, music well-played, will carry me away. It speaks to me tucked away inside. It lifts me up, stirs my feet, brings a tear, and fills my heart.
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Apparently, the expressiveness of music is nearly universal. Why does music make us feel emotional? According to this article in the Scientific American, it isn’t really music that makes us feel. It’s other humans. Yup. You, me, him, her. The expressiveness of a human being, something you’ve felt yourself or seen expressed by someone else. Wait. Music isn’t human, you say. No, but music is something that can be manipulated to be expressive, humanly expressive, and that tickles a memory, a feeling.
Music doesn’t do it for everyone. For some, it’s the sound of a well-tuned engine racing down the track. Others are swept away by the beauty of Monet or van Gogh or Picasso. A passage in a book can stir one’s emotions or evoke an image that moves us. No matter if it’s the notes of a bullfrog, the trill of a nightingale, the sweeping vistas of a prairie, or the majesty of mountains, it’s reaching the most human place inside you.
As I said, music does it for me. I’d like to share all my favorites with you, but that would take hours and hours and hours. Instead, let me share just one today. Take a listen.
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There’s a place, a sound, where you find joy and solace and restoration.Where do you find a moment for yourself? What do you do when you need a break? Won’t you share? Please only post one link per comment so the bot doesn’t put your comment in the spam box. And thank you for taking time to read and comment.