A medicine. This is a word many people understand and know. Most likely you have taken a few different medications, but the best one of them all is one that does not come in pill or liquid form. It comes in waves; it comes in vibrations that resonate through your ears and your whole body.
For so many people, music is a medicine in itself.
It heals at a person’s hardest point of their life; that might be sickness and treatment for that sickness, mental illnesses, self esteem problems, school struggles, money struggles, and relationship problems.
Music also heals when there is nothing at all to heal, but to just improve your mood, even by the slightest bit. To make you and allow you to enjoy the moment that much more, more so than you had been before. It allows you to laugh a bit louder, sing a little more off key, and to have the widest smile your face can hold.
Somehow, someway these musicians heal us. Their lyrics speak to you on another level. They transport you to possibly your first kiss, your first love, your first huge game in the sport you played, the time you took the longest car ride of your life, and or the day your lover proposed. The lyrics may take you back to your first date, the first time you aced that huge test, you passed the boards for your license, and any other happy moment.
Music can take you back in time or relax you.
The beat of the music as well as the bass takes control of your body--relaxes, and hypnotizes you. You become lost. You tend to dance more freely, move more carelessly and all together, you let go.
Music is a medicine that doctors cannot provide.
Although there are times when music takes you back to a more upsetting moment in your life: the death of a loved one, your lowest point of your life whatever it may have been, or even a break up. Even though those times of sorrow may be remembered with a song and tears may be shed, a smile sometimes finds its way through. You realize that you have overcome that sorrow. Though it may be hard to hear and remember that memory while listening to that specific song, you may end up realizing you’ve come very far.
Sometimes, those sad songs are the perfect remedy. They numb you like no other medicine can do. They allow you to let all of your emotions come out, to cry all the tears you have, and to sulk in your sorrows for the time being until another song will come along and change your mood.
Music connects us: to the ones who have passed, to the ones we know and love and spend our time with, and to those who we have yet to meet.
Sorrow, heartache, love, freedom, and happiness are felt through and with the help of music. It helps you cope and it helps you heal.
Music is the medicine that will never stop, and that has always helped when there have been no other solutions. Music connects people as one, helps you to care more, to think more of others, and to think more of yourself.
Music is medicine. It helps you cope, heal, relax, smile, and most important of all, it lets you live.
Music. Lets. You. Live.
