The Power of Music with Matthew Melendez

Life After: From Surviving to Thriving

In today’s episode, we welcome the brilliant Matthew Melendez to share with us how music can change your life. Matthew also gives us fantastic ideas for how to start regularly using music to improve our moods, increase our positive emotions and make connections with others. This is a must listen episode!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We are acting on our feelings all the time.
• Music is an easy entry point into figuring out how to feel our feelings; how to build some emotional awareness.
• Find a group to sing with!
• Music helps with depression, anxiety, agitation, and rumination.
• Music is an emotional container
• We all have innate musical skills, so explore your musical side!

BEST MOMENTS

Matthew talks about using the recorder as a fantastic beginner instrument to test out your musical skills in a fun and creative way, in addition to your voice. There are also several apps out there that will allow you to tinker with, and make your own, music. Consider music emotional finger paint.

When you sing with a group, you all get the get the same benefits and you all emerge from it, no matter how different you think you are going in, with a fundamental knowing, a fundamental awareness, that’s a deep knowing, that you have more in common than not. Which allows us to see each other more clearly. It makes it hard to “other” each other.

We can use music to help manage our self-care.

Remember, you are perfectly capable being safe all by yourself.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://greatbendmusic.org

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ABOUT THE HOST

Jill is a mindset coach and speaker who loves to help people. She knows that the tips and tricks in each episode work – because she’s used them to change her life and her clients have used them to change their lives! Jill has the education and life experience to help you rebuild your life, whatever the circumstances... and move from surviving to thriving!

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