This title isn’t misleading in the least. Watch this clip and you’ll understand just how soothing it is to watch the guitarist strum those strings as the music plays and your eyelids get heavy. If you don’t feel at all relaxed it’s likely that you live for a challenge and are just a little too stubborn to kick back and enjoy the pleasing tones that are so enjoyable. But hey, don’t take my word for it, play the clip and relax.
Once you’ve done it you’ll really begin to understand how watching the strings oscillate and go from being straight to wavy lines in the foreground can really do a number on you as far as making you drowsy. For some reason it makes a person relax to the point of feeling their eyelids close and their body just harmonize with the music in a way that allows for complete and total calm.
Those that think music is just a thing to measure and record like a math problem aren’t wrong, as this type of clip could be quantified quite easily. But the fun of music is that you feel it more than you think about it. Music invokes a feeling deep within a person that, if it’s allowed, will increase awareness, empathy, and even promote a general sense of well-being that can increase the likelihood of contentment within an individual and a greater sense of self.
This in turn can spread outward to increase the balance within a person’s mind, heart, and body that can then go on to create a more harmonious balance in a person’s life. From that point on the music becomes a point of relaxation for any person and a thing to be enjoyed on a fairly regular if not continual basis. Music can do wonders for a person and can help them to realize a level of contentment that they might not be able to achieve on their own.
Music is such a calming way to express one’s self that it tends to be very therapeutic in a way. A good tune can soothe the nerves, pump you up, or allow you to wind down in a way that is easy to achieve. Just watching the strings of this guitar waver and vibrate is kind of relaxing in a way that’s hard to describe. The tunes themselves are even nice, as they have the effect of lulling one into a sense of such calm relaxation that I honestly had a tough time keeping my eyes open to finish this piece.
Once the clip was over however I felt soothed in a way that can’t always be accomplished on my own. Something about music makes it capable of reaching people on a level that some might call a chemical reaction that is caused by a certain frequency that causes our bodies to elicit a conditioned response. Or something like that.
Personally I feel that science and music have their places apart and together, but when you discuss how music calms you down the scientific aspect can take a quiet siesta and learn a few things.
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