Nothing can amplify or transform a mood like music.
John Coltrane can lull you into a trance. Taylor and Olivia can help you feel less alone. Nirvana and Alice in Chains can work you through a bout of angst you can’t shake. Michael Franti can turn a tired day in the hammock into a rejuvenating respite. Jay Z can make you want to write poetry. Bob Dylan can create a revolution. Even now.
Music pushes you deeper into the mood you’re already in.
But don’t forget you can also put something on that will change your mood completely, turn things around. This can be challenging because the mood you’re in may be blocking you from the productive thought of putting on music.
It’s spiritual; you have to have faith.
However you’re feeling, whatever the mood, play a song and I guarantee you won’t be the same by the end of it.
Musicians are mystics: shamans with instruments, able to transform us with the movement of their hands and the breath in their lungs.
They fill the air with fairy dust.
Cast spells to save us.
Time and time again.
If you’re really down in a hole, you could put on Alice In Chains to dive deeper into it, or you can put on John Coltrane to transcend it. Either way — charging through or rising above — you will begin healing, become more whole, and get closer to where you need to be.
And where we need you to be.