Radio Wizard: About Music

Have you ever tried to watch a silent film?  Or even work around your house in silence?  On rare occasions maybe you’ve even spent time just—thinking while driving in your car.  But I’m guessing these are all pretty rare moments for most Americans.  The truth is music underscores our very lives.  Many of us even turn on some tunes in order to get to sleep at night. 

Remember when everyone had a great big radio or boom box? Soon after there was the personal cassette player and then it appeared—the CD!  Now in the day of everything computer, we’re able to listen to our favorite tunes via mp3 files and downloads on our IPods and IPhones and everything else “I.”

Ask us why we’re so obsessed with music and I doubt if very many of us can tell you why, but the truth is we love our music.  One great reasons to love music is because music is soothing.  Listening to music does wonders to alleviate stress. Please note that everyone has different tastes in music. Listen to the music that you feel comfortable. Sitting down and forcing yourself to listen to relaxation music that you don't like may create stress, not alleviate it. Music has always been a great healer. In the Bible, we learn about how David played the harp to help ease his severe depression of King Saul.  Music is a significant mood-changer and reliever of stress, working on many levels at once.