by Mark Maxwell
Everyone loves music. Music is everywhere, it
pervades our world. Everyone knows music has
power and importance.
But have you ever
stopped to consider why? What it is about
music that gives it so much power and
importance?
Here are seven top reasons:
1. Music is a universal language. It inspires
common human feelings and bridges gaps
between cultures that
spoken languages
cannot. It brings people together and creates
universal community.
2. Music inspires and evokes emotion in a
healthy way. It touches our emotional being
and evokes moods and
feelings that are
sometimes difficult to express. It can change
a difficult mood and make it happy or
excited;
it can change a light mood and take
it deeper and more profound.
3. Music enhances learning and makes it more
enjoyable. It is scientifically proven that
music enhances brain
functioning. Playing
music uses many brain functions
simultaneously: motor control, imagination,
hearing, sight,
memory, etc.
4. Music creates ambiance. You can use music
in any environment to enhance and augment
what is already there.
Consider the
difference between a party with music and one
without, or a sporting event, or a movie, or
a romantic
restaurant, or driving in your
car.
5. Music is spiritual. Music is of the spirit
and inspirational to the spirit. All
religions use music to
help express spiritual
values, and all religions use music to uplift
the spirit.
6. Music sparks the imagination. It invokes
mental imagery and inner scenery that opens
the mind to amazing
insight and spans the
distance between the stars.
7. Music is a simple pleasure. All it takes
is your ears and your imagination. I believe
that at the center
of the phenomenon of the
magic that music creates is the spiritual
aspect. Music is a gift from God, a sacred
expression
of the Universal Life Force Energy
that creates us all.
Mark Maxwell is a saxophonist and recording
artist living in California. His 17
self-produced and self-promoted
CDs have sold
over a half a million copies. His music can
be found at
http://romanticsaxmusic.com/
