Music Can Actually Regulate Your Nervous System, Here's How I Use It

Between the news cycle and everyday life, staying regulated can feel like a full-time job. In this post, I share three specific ways I use music, not as background noise, but as an actual nervous system tool. Learn how music helps me to shift my mood, get through hard days, and bring my stress back down when it spikes while I'm working.

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A good song can take you out... so you can get back in the game. This dose is for anyone who's just had enough: stress, war, politics, and needs a break from being frazzled. This is the Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn, videos designed to expand your thinking.

So, why do we want to think about this? Because it's easy to forget the things that help us, especially when we're stressed to the max. And music is great for everyday stressors, but even more so when we're in the middle of nationwide grip stress. It's impossible to get through a day without hearing something awful lately, no matter how much you're protecting yourself from outside information.

As a neurospicy, previously-traumatized person, I've learned that music regulates my nervous system faster than almost anything else. And you might need that tool to help you right now, too. So, here is your loving reminder that your favorite jam can help you Ctrl+Alt+Delete your nervous system and get you aligned with your life and goals again.

Here are three quick ways you can use music to set yourself up to help you take a break.

Number one, take yourself out of the game by getting loud. Play some mood music in your headphones. How do you want to feel? Get the anger out with some Metallica. Have Michael Bublé remind me that I'm feeling good. Or go full on Disney with Happy Little Working Song from the movie Enchanted. They use music in movies to get you to feel the scene because that's how music works. So, hack into life with these awesome cheat codes.

Number two takes a hot minute to set up, but is totally worth it. It's a 10 hour positive music playlist. Let's face it, some days are just way harder than others. And it's so much easier to get through a day with encouragement, and your favorite uplifting songs can do that for you. Imagine a radio station where every song that plays has you going, "OMG, I love this song." Yeah, it's like that.

Number three, we're going to slow it down a little and keep it in your ears really low, like your own personal elevator music. By keeping calm noises in your ear, whether it's sound bath, om chanting, classical music, the brain loves to be soothed. I'll do this while I'm working and I still need to hear people and that way if I need to bring down my cortisol levels, I close my eyes and I let the music flood my brain.

So, yeah. What's your emergency song? Do you have one that automatically helps you Ctrl+Alt+Delete your mood? I'd love to know what it is. I love new positive music.

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