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How Music Can Enhance Your Creative Thinking
Updated: Feb 17
Everyone has experienced the soothing and calming effect of music. But did you know that music can also have a positive impact on your creative thinking? Listening to certain types of tracks can encourage you to think differently, come up with new ideas and find solutions to problems. Let’s take a look at how music can help enhance your creative brain.
Music Stimulates Your Brain
Your brain is stimulated when you listen to music. It releases dopamine, which causes feelings of pleasure and enjoyment. This can make you feel more relaxed and open to creative ideas. Listening to upbeat or energetic songs can increase your level of motivation so that you are more likely to think outside the box for solutions to any problem or challenge that may arise.
Music Creates a Positive Atmosphere
Music has the power to create a positive atmosphere through its ability to evoke emotions, bring back memories, and influence moods. It can uplift your spirit and get you to a more positive state of mind, making you feel good, relaxed, or energized. The rhythm, melody, and lyrics of a song can all contribute to creating a positive vibe. Additionally, listening to music with others can strengthen social bonds and create a sense of community and connection, further contributing to a constructive mindset.
Music Increases Focus
In addition, research has found that certain types of music can help people focus on tasks at hand without getting distracted by other thoughts or worries. Music acts as an effective distraction from all the noise around us that often prevents us from being able to concentrate on our work or creative projects. Certain types of tracks, such as classical or instrumental music, have a consistent rhythm and tempo which can help set a pace for work. The right type of pieces will also help reduce anxiety levels so that we are better able to focus on finding solutions efficiently.
A Way to Discover a New Perspective
By exposing the brain to new stimuli, music can help shift attention and provide a fresh perspective, encouraging the mind to wander and explore new possibilities. Ambient tracks can promote mindfulness and reflection, allowing for more introspection. Moreover, listening to new and unfamiliar music can break routine and, with it, some of our limitations.
Getting into the right frame of mind
Music has many amazing effects on our minds and bodies, one of which is its ability to stimulate creativity and imagination. By helping us stay focused, relaxed, motivated, and inspired, listening to the right kind of music is an excellent way for us all — regardless of our personal goals — to get into a mindset conducive for coming up with innovative solutions for everyday challenges or problems we face in our lives. So turn on some tunes next time you need a little extra inspiration!
Athanata is a Swiss and French composer. Starting out producing hip hop instrumentals for local rappers, he has later developed a passion for film and documentary soundtracks. Practicing himself relaxation techniques on a daily basis, he uses his compositions as a way to deepen them. His goal: to allow the listener to gently travel and deeply relax. His first solo album, Fragments of Spirit (2021), was followed by several tracks focusing on cardiac coherence/coherent breathing and meditation.
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