Can music improve your life?

[bikemig]

I always thought so. Here is an article making this claim: 9 ways music can improve your life - The Week

I think my favorite is no. 6 about how doctors did a better job of performing CPR on mannequins when listening to the Bee Gees Stayin Alive. How cool is that?

 

[JMJVK]

Articles like that have been littering magazines for as long as I can remember. The first hint we all get about this in life is the lullaby...

Still, a few interesting links to be dug out of there.

 

[Ponzio]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Otherwise I'd be one miserable son-of-a-bltch.

 

[3db]

Its such an integral part of my life that I can't live without it.

 

[tcarcio]

It is a big yes for me also. I grew up playing in a few bands and I listened to music everyday. I don't think anyone can get through their teenage years without it.

 

[Lulimet]

If music didn't improve our life then we wouldn't have forums like this one.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Music and movies improve our lives for sure.

 

[MidnightSensi2]

Bob Marley knew... "One good thing about music, is when it hits you, you feel no pain."

Love this Sublime cover of Trenchtown Rock:

Articles like that have been littering magazines for as long as I can remember. The first hint we all get about this in life is the lullaby...

Still, a few interesting links to be dug out of there.

Yeah, lots of pop psychology. (or pop-science/soft-science).

But, some of it we just know. I always ask what music people are into, for the same reason they said: gives you a lot of clues about the person.

 

[Bebe14]

Of course music can improve your life, or at least it can change it, making you see the world with different eye!

 

[skizzerflake]

Would we or this forum even be here if it didn't do SOMETHING for us? The answer is YES!