Power Of Silence

Music means a lot to me, almost everyday I couldn't possibly resist listening to music, even I'm driving or even before my bedtime or whenever I'm blogging, I just need some music...as we all know music have it's own healing power.

There is this article I read and I would like to share...

The Power Of Silence,
When we really listen to music we are brought into an attentive present, into an attitude of openness and receptiveness and a non-judgemental space. This can change how we listen to ourselves and to others and we can re-learn to listen with innocence, as a small child does, and as we did before criticism taught us to listen defensively.

Listening can make us aware of the power of silence. The silence of rhythmic rests and the silence of the ‘breath’ between phrases are similar to the ‘gap’, the space between thoughts when we are able to centre down and quieten the mind in meditation.

Evidence shows that listening to appropriate music lowers BP, stabilizes heart rate, relieves depression, reduces pre-treatment anxiety, enhances concentration and creativity, lessens the need for sedatives and painkillers (during and after surgery), reduces nausea after chemotherapy, manages pain and also improves stability of people with Parkinson disease.

Well apart from that, another reason why I love listening to music is because whenever I listened to some old songs that make me reminiscenes some of my past. Remembered one of those days when we were in our high school final some of us used to have this little autograph book where is circulated among friends to jot down some crappy notes and girls like to pen it down what kind of musics they preferred. Sometimes by knowing what kind of music someone likes tell us what kind of character and personality they are.