Music – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

To sad something out should be a phrasal verb

To sad something out, should be a phrasal verb—a way to overcome sadness by tuning into it to get it over with. I, like many, experience extreme sudden sadness, and now instead of running from it, I sort of bathe in it, marinate in it, and let it go. It has proven a faster and […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Sad music can make you happier

Allowing sadness to take over is the best way to fully experience happiness sooner. I can attest that when I run from sorrow it only comes back at me and cuts into me more deeply, lingering longer than I’d wish. That’s why allowing sadness to settle by experiencing the moment it hits me, is the […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

“I’m getting old and tired of chasing setting suns.”

These are part of the lyrics by Passenger from the song “Setting Suns.” It may sound sad, but actually it’s comforting to listen to songs that I can identify with and are real. Lyrics, music can help us feel and hold us by the hand when we find ourselves reflecting on life or experiencing the […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Inspiration to start your new “everyday.” from Oliver Sacks, Wayne Dyer and Jung.

As Oliver Sacks rightly said: “Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The soundtracks of our lives.

We all experience mood changes prompted by music. Music that might take us down memory lane, making us feel happy or sad. So, the music we tend to like, whether it brings up positive or not so happy emotions make up who we are. Music marks our lives and we choose those tunes.