Self Bliss

Who Are You?

Do you catch yourself looking in the mirror, staring at the familiar face, yet it feels strange. Like “who is this person staring back at me?”  There’s a glimpse of a girl from long ago, maybe a twinkle in the eye, a glimmer of hope, a spark of a fire, still present in the embers.

Maybe you ask that face in the mirror, silently (or out loud)…”Who are you?” And you’re hoping for the answer to that question.  Hoping to figure out this new identity, your place in the world.

This was me the other day.  Mid teeth brushing.

So I did a quick search on google (because that’s where we go for all the answers to the philosophical mysteries of the universe). It yields up lyric videos of the classic song “Who Are You” by none other than The Who.  And I suddenly have the urge to stream past episodes of CSI.

Who are you?  I really want to know.…

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How Does Music Affect Your Mood

It’s common knowledge that music can affect your mood.  Watch a sad commercial or movie and have to reach for the kleenex?  Now try the same with the volume muted.  Not quite as bad?  It might just be because the musical score didn’t evoke the same emotional response.

Listening to music, or singing along, can release those feel-good chemicals like oxytocin and dopamine in the brain.  It’s how music affects us.  Why a baby is soothed when mom sings a lullaby, why the toddler starts bouncing to the rhythm of “Baby Shark” (do do duh do duh do…sorry if that’s stuck in your head now), and why you catch yourself belting out that pop sing on the radio at the top of your lungs in the car while waiting at the traffic light.  With all the other drivers staring at you.  Not that I know this from experience or anything……

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