WOODBURY– Music impacts your mentality. It changes your attitude toward the people around you. It stimulates your brain to feel more deeply. Music affects your brain more than you’d think.
The great thing about music is that this impact is not limited to anyone. Everyone has issues in their lives, family, friends, work, school. We all have moments when we are emotional.
Whether you’re sad, mad, happy, or anxious, music affects your brain.
If you’re coming home from a bad day or celebrating a good grade on something you worked hard on, music can amplify your feelings. It can make you feel more uplifted or seen in the lyrics, and it can make you reflect on your life and connect to the people singing.
Whenever I’m having a bad day at school, I listen to music. It helps because it makes me feel better about
anything that I’m anxious about.
Violette Star, a freshman at Nonnewaug said, “Music sort of helps me get my mind off of things that stress me out.”
Being a student is difficult. You have to juggle a social life and, oftentimes, a sport, while upholding your relationships. This is very stressful and a lot of students struggle because of it.
In the article, “How Does Music Affect You?” Joseph Pratt says, “Music can improve mental health through increasing feelings of social connectedness.”
But does volume matter?
I think it does. Listening to it quietly is nice when it’s in the background, but if I’m in the car or on the bus, I don’t want to be hearing anything else.
When the volume is up, your brain is more immersed into the song. You can distance yourself from the problems consuming your life.
In a study on whether the volume of a song influences our enjoyment, Leif Jordansson said, “Volume is important because it lets you take part in your body system, muscles and nerves, and this will affect the subconscious by reaching deeper into your system.”
The volume of a song can make it more impactful and enhance the experience of listening to it.
“I basically only listen to my music loud, because I can like hear the beat and it just sounds better.” Sophie Mehegan said.
So when you’re overwhelmed or stressed, turn the volume up. It will help.
