Using Music as inspiration

                        





Music & Using It as Inspiration to Make It Through Life...

Using Music as a source of inspiration is truly powerful. Music itself has been a way of life and a way in which people can escape. I can attest to this greatly. There have been numerous times in my life in which I have used music to get away from the challenges and worrisome issues of life. I can recall a time where I was contemplating about discontinuing an extra-curricular activity involving dance. In this particular case, I had such a passion for this, but this extra-curricular activity was taking up a large portion of my day almost every day, during my sophomore year of college. I was struggling with balancing my course hours, study hours, and personal downtime along with the extra-curricular activity that I so longed to continued to be a part of. I began to stress out and got overwhelmed with all that was going on at the time. Because of my strong beliefs and foundation in what I live by, in such situations in which I am stressed and troubled, I usually choose to listen to Gospel/Inspirational music. One night I remember going to the Student Union on campus and heard such angelic tunes coming from a band playing a few Gospel tunes. I began to sit down and meditate on the melodic tunes and the inspirational life giving lyrics. Listening and meditating on positive things helps me get my mind off my situation and onto what I could be doing to further enhance a positive way of thinking and living life with a smile. The average person will most likely choose to think about how bad of situation they are in rather than focusing on the negative. If a person wants to enjoy life then enjoy it on purpose; even when you do not feel like it. Sometimes you have to speak yourself happy. They key is to redirect on preparing a better outcome rather than enhancing more of sadness and negativity.

Here are a few quotes that pertain to music being a great way to get through not just one day but everyday :

Just as Jesus created wine from water,
we humans are capable of transmuting
emotion into music."
~ Carlos Santana ~


"Music is a higher revelation
than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil
in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents." ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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