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!

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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

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 feel-good songs that will take six hours to listen to start to finish - that's a lot of musical self-care, which you are totally worth. 

We recently invested in a record player at our house, 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