The Energy of Music

Is there anyone who doesn’t like to listen to music of some kind? We all have our favorites, and in Feng Shui terms, music is a wonderful ‘Chi enhancer.’ Music has the ability to change the energy around us and change how we feel. Whether you’re listening to something very upbeat to lift your energy or something soft and soothing to calm you down, few things have the ability to impact our energy as instantly as music.

I read an article recently on ‘The Calm Space’ written by our dear friend Dierdre ‘Dee’ Le Blang from Australia, which really got me thinking about music in a different way. Just as you can look back at all the homes you’ve lived in throughout your life and see them from the Feng Shui perspective of how they related to what was going on in your life at the time, you can also look back at the music you liked and listened to at various times in your life.

I’m sure you often hear a song that takes you back to a certain time in your life and all the memories come flooding back to you vividly. In the same way that objects in our home can uplift us with positive memories and associations or drain us with negative ones, the same is true of music. I had never thought of it in this way before. Dee wrote about The Soundtrack to the Journey of My Life, describing the music that has influenced her in her life and even put together a playlist – what a wonderful idea.

So as you look back on your life, wouldn’t it be interesting to put together the soundtrack of your own life? Of course, for the purposes of enhancing your inner chi and creating positive Feng Shui, I would ask you to focus most intently on those tracks that elicit positive memories and feelings. The song that you used to hear over and over as you were going through a nasty divorce is not necessarily the type of thing you want to re-live! Although that too can tell you a lot about how far you’ve come. I heard a song on the radio the other day that took me back to one of the most challenging times in my life, when my husband had left me, I had very little money, was in debt and about to lose my house. I can remember hearing that song back then and crying my eyes out as I felt sorry for myself and my life situation.

Now though, as I heard the song again, I felt no emotion. It was just a song that reminded me of that time in my life. Nothing more, nothing less. That may not sound like much, but I know that is REAL progress. When you can re-live those times of stress and struggle in your mind and no longer be attached emotionally to them, that’s a very liberating thing. It makes you realize how far you have come – it certainly did for me.

Thanks do Dee’s article I’m not only more aware of the music that accompanied the various stages of my life, but I’m paying much more attention to the music I choose to listen to now and why. When I have a job that I don’t like to do, for example, such as organizing the papers in my office or cleaning out the garage, I like to listen to something very up-beat – Latin American music is perfect because it gets me moving and makes me feel positive as I do the jobs I dislike. There are songs that I feel so intensely they move me to tears and I just have to stop what I’m doing to listen – such as ‘Let me Fall’ sung by Josh Groban or ‘Angel’ by Sarah McLachlan. There are times when I crave classical music and times when I love New Age or Spiritual music.

Just as your homes say a lot about you and what is going on in your life, it’s clear that the music you listen to does the same thing. It impacts your energy and can reflect how you feel at this moment. But it also has the ability to change your energy instantly – when you’re feeling angry or sad, listening to music that inspires and uplifts you can change that state right away.
Thank you Dee for helping me to think about music a little differently. I now see it more holistically and energetically – and that helps me to enjoy it even more.

What is the soundtrack of your life?

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