Exercise for the Soul: Why We're All Meant to Make Music and How It Heals Us

MUSIC IS EXERCISE FOR THE SOUL.AND YOU'VE BEEN TOLD IT ISN'T FOR YOU.You've been told the same lie your whole life. Music is for the talented. If you can't sing, shut up. If you can't play, sit back and listen.But we're all meant to make music.Humans have used songwriting for thousands of years to process life, connect, and feel lighter. Then we handed it to professionals and became spectators. Now depression, anxiety, and disconnection are at all-time highs, and almost nobody has a regular music practice.Inside, you'll find a simple, research-backed songwriting exercise, developed by a former board-certified music therapist, that takes 15 minutes. No instrument. No singing ability. No training. Just you.By the end, you'll have a fully recorded song you wrote that sounds as good as the songs on the radio. Most of all, you'll feel lighter, because you'll finally have a way to release what you've been suppressing.New research shows this method reduces depression by 75%. From one song.How? Because music activates all parts of the brain. It functions the same way EMDR functions. You don't need talent. You don't need training. You don't need permission.We're all meant to make music. Let's go make it.

Pagina's: 158, Paperback, Social Script Publishing