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By consciously listen to harmonious music you relax your mind and body. It’s a way to keep your awareness in the present without getting lost in thoughts, by just listening to the sounds you’re hearing. Music can carry you, motivate you, calm you down, balance you, heal you.
I want to share a Spotify playlist-trilogy with you. The trilogy has the theme ‘music is medicine’. Mind, body, and spirit.
I’m sure they all can be of help for you. Successful living requires a balanced state of mind. Let music help you with that.
mind - almost 8 hours relaxed vibe from different genres.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rPI9bn5catpA0nxGsr0gf?si=ANM8kSSrS3WhiFgIbQ2Uig
body - 6 hours rhythm of slow-house and smooth trance music.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ULxMmx4JZQPULtWMIrT8u?si=QdEWJ7XBQ_OA1Tc9yS7wdw
spirit - 4 hours dreamy chillout from different genres.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vkciO1sceG6ltg6RUtoU7?si=6G-f4i-IQbC9AoZyy0ZQoA
18 hours of music as medicine.
Don’t just hear it, listen to it 🎧
Even if you don’t have Spotify, let this post be a reminder of how music should not be underestimated! Music can carry you anywhere you want to go! Philosophers have known this throughout history;
Pythagoras firmly believed that music is not only mathematics and harmony but can be applied as medicine.
In Hegel’s view, music is the most subjective of the arts and is intimately linked to the self’s feeling of itself. Hegel associates music with feeling that is not linked to content: it allows us to feel sadness, for instance, without being sad about a particular thing. Music can also elevate our emotions and allow us to transcend them.
Nietzsche said "Without music, life would be a mistake." Nietzsche claimed that through art, and especially through music, one can for a while escape from the misery of earthly life and have a glimpse of the transcendental.
For Socrates music is part of education, an instrument to civilize the soul.
Even though Plato thought some music should be banned he also said "Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul." He also argued that “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
Aristotle claimed music may help individuals who are in states of extreme enthusiasm, pity, or fear return to a more balanced state.
Schopenhauer said “Music could exist even if there were no world at all.” Music was one of the few things he sincerely enjoyed. He also said that "music is the answer to the mystery of life.”
Friedrich Schelling thought that instrumental music was the purest and most disembodied of the arts, and enabled us not only to glimpse the Absolute – but during that experience, to see ourselves as an integral part of it.
Lao Tzu said “music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Music is magic.
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