Music Is Medicine | #77
Music is medicine #77 - Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn 🌞
Music can be a powerful tool for emotional regulation, especially when your nervous system is overwhelmed. In Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn #77, Dawn Super shares how music became one of her most effective coping strategies for stress, anxiety, and emotional overload. This post explores how lyrics affect mood, why some people are more lyrical than melodic, and how curating feel-good music can help you comfort yourself, shift your emotional state, and create calm from the inside out—especially if you’re neurodivergent or living with chronic stress.
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Music is medicine #77 - Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn 🌞 (coping skills, emotional regulation, neurospicy)
Music is medicine. This is the Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn number 77, videos designed to expand your thinking.
This video is about emotional regulation and comforting yourself.
Do you like music? Do you listen to it a lot? Take a minute and think about your favorite song. What feelings does listening to this song bring up for you?
There's so much I don't understand about being a human, and I never really connected the dots that the lyrics-for me-I'm lyrical. Some people are melodic, some people are lyrical. I'm lyrical. The lyrics really get me, and if they're not good, they get inside me and make a mess.
This all came to a head one day when I noticed I was in a bad mood. I had been working on Happy Matters and keeping my mood good, and I'm like, why am I in a bad mood? There’s no reason for me to be in a bad mood. And I realized my brain was playing the chorus of this song over and over in my head. It was popular on the radio at the time. It was a P!nk song: “I had a poop day.” And my brain just kept singing it.
And I realized I was literally creating a poopy day for myself by doing that.
This was a really long time ago, close to 15 years now, and ever since then, whenever my mood is off, the first thing I do is pay attention to what song is playing.
I started with music on Pandora. When a song made me feel good, I gave the thumbs up. And when it didn’t feel so good or it got me in my feels or got me thinking about the past, I gave it the thumbs down.
Eventually it just became this companion of good feels all the time. And whenever I felt overwhelmed or anxious or stressed or anything, I could just close my eyes and listen to what was playing in my ears because it’s a ten-hour playlist of all my favorite songs that make me feel good and happy and strong and kickass.
That's what emotional regulation looks like when you’re dealing with four decades of sleep deprivation, two decades of chronic pain. It’s a lot to manage this cockpit up here, and the more you can make your mind like a playground, the more it is a playground.
If you want to go deeper, check out the comments. I have a Music Is Medicine playlist that I put together a couple years ago now, and it's key songs in my life and the difference they made. You read the text and the songs are behind it.
Yeah, that’s it. Have a great day.
Music as medicine playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjTVOAF_sfVvkoszeC1M8AShYRMKsRCgA
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