Stereo-moods that mirror

Music is all around everyone everyday and night. It is an inescapable part of our culture. In the car people listen to the radio, cds or their iPods. In almost every shop and restaurant music surrounds us. For most people music plays from their mobiles or even when people are exercising they are found engaged or attached to their iPods.  In clubs, bars, music is a vital key to the perfect atmosphere. For me it can enhance or shift any mood i am in or want to be in or find myself in and for others it can be the cause of their moods or trigger a specific moods. Stereo-moods are and have been a common factor in determining what we like within music and they are what we feel or  begin to feel when specific music is played.  But why does it happen? Research has shown and proven through music therapy experiments that music has the ability to affect both the left and right side of the brain which as a result of this music affects our moods wholly rather then most other stimuli.
 Music firstly affects our brain waves and the beat or tempo listened to has the ability to regulate upwards or downwards which has an affect on our bodily functions. The higher the tempo, the more heightened our senses become and vice versa. 


   Secondly music seems to get our breathing and heart rate beating. We all have that music that gets our hearts pumping and our blood racing.  Its no coincidence as it is a scientific fact that songs and music do have these affects on us. Alternatively you find that while listening to more mellow music and slow music you yourself start to mirror the music by mellowing and calming down. All these are the music psychology effects that songs and music have in altering and affecting out moods. Our bodies are wired in such a way that they respond and react to whatever our minds say. If the mind is happy and feeling good, the body follows suddenly, alternatively when your mood goes to the dumps and the mind is depressed our body and bodily functions will follow. We rely on music to help up with our moods. An example being when i'm happy I find myself listening to reggae Sean Paul (a guilty pleasure) to keep me and my mind in this mood. However some people find that their mood can be altered when they are feeling sad for example and their favourite song comes on the radio therefore being able to shift a persons mood and make you feel so much better.


You find yourself feeling miserable and you turn to your ipod to help you through it music can either make you feel better or mirror and comfort the mood you are already in. In affect music performs many roles in our emotions whether it being your saviour of feeling sad or your complimenting of feeling happy. In the words of  Berthold Auerbach 'music washes away from the soul and dust of everyday life'. Without music our moods would be inescapable , a Stereo-mood is ultimately a pleasure we are known to enjoy and even if you didn't know it yourself there are reasons behind them. Stereo-moods mirror. 


And on that note, lets hope you're feeling happy! If not , here's something to help.  Beau x