What do you feel?

Bob,
I agree with you, i feel relaxed. Music is the only thing that gets me into another state, that is of relaxing. It also brings me back to certain places and people in time. Like a time machine, some songs sent me to different girls i went out with others to different times, and people, or events in my life. I could not live with out music. So enjoy the music while you can, nobody gets out of here alive per Jim Morrison..............

All physical and mental boundaries disappear!

I find the beauty of the music very healing and it makes me soul-connected to listen rather than in my head. I can use music to celebrate a good mood or change a bad mood into good. The power of beauty to heal is profound. Music was even able to reach me after my brother's suicide, when very little could get trough the grief.

I use music to help me relax when I come home from work. I play music in the morning as I'm getting ready for my day and this could be rock or soft classical depending on my mood.

Aside from that, when I'm listening I sometimes can feel the emotions that the composer infused into the music, so sometimes that can be feeling sad, joyful, heart ache, blissful, excited, etc. That is what I love about listening to classical music. It's like listening to a whole drama unfold, complete with suspense, doom, rapture, feeling love, feeling loss- everything. It is very fun to sit back and take it all in and enjoy it.

I find that I enjoy music more when I can let myself really surrender to what the music has to offer and let myself feel it all.

Something between the itching of a severe case of shingles and being being bitten by hundreds of Alaskan giant mosquitoes....
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At other times it is likewearing a body cast of mustard plaster.. With tons of red ants crawling around inside of it