Self-Care September Day 5: Listen to Music You Love

Music exerts a powerful influence on human beings. Just like breathing and walking, listening to music is an easily accessible self-care practice with a multitude of benefits for your body, mind, and mood.

I mean, just check out this list!

Listening to music can:

• foster feelings of connectedness 
• help people think about who they are, who they would like to be, and how to cut their own path
• stimulate your brain
• improve your memory
• manage pain
• slow cognitive decline
• regulate your emotions
• feel less anxious
• positively affect depression symptoms (so long as you're not listening to sad songs while ruminating over sad things)
• alter your breath rate, heart rate, and blood pressure
• reduce fatigue, and
• help your body exercise more efficiently

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Self-Care September Day 5: Listen to Music You Love
Whether you want to dedicate a specific amount of time to sing along at the top of your lungs or let a relaxing continuous loop blend into the background of your day, turn on a piece or playlist of music that uplifts you today. 

Click here to check out the Soul Fitness "Mindset Matters Most" playlist on Spotify! It's 111 of my favorite songs and will take six hours to listen all the way through - that's a lot of musical self-care. 

We recently invested in a record player and are slowly building a carefully curated collection of vinyl, which is like a double whammy of music happiness - not only do we get to enjoy the musical nostalgia of our childhoods, we get to do it in a way that involves some of our favorite modern day tunes. 
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I love you and I'll see you real soon!

xo,
Coach Alex