music control our feelings, does any explanation here?

hi there and welcome to my lot! music does not control but have an effect. in psychiatry, music is being used as a therapy. if a client is in manic state they first play rock music then slow rock then t ballad, on the other hand, depressed clients have the classical first then slow rock then rock music!

I'm a songwriter and I think i might be able to shed perhaps a little light on this. I was in a band a year ago. We were playing my material, which tended at the time to be a little on the dark side, and enjoying some modest success with it. But there was tension in the group, which boiled over into some very negative exchanges. I used these turbulent emotions to write more songs. The tension got worse and the songs got darker until we finally split up. Now with hindsight, I believe I was unwittingly feeding this negativity with the songs I was writing, and of course the negative feelings were feeding the songs, producing a destructive loop. Have you heard of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and positive affirmations? The latter is about repeating a phrase (eg,'I am happy') until the mind takes it on board and you actually begin to feel happy (or rich, or energized, depending on your affirmation). I experimented with this, and began writing songs that concentrate on the positive aspects of life. I'm now a much happier and fulfilled person, which of course feeds more positive songwriting. It is self-perpetuating. I think the same is true of the music we listen to. Music feeds the soul, so a love song would make you experience loving feelings, an angry song angry feelings etc. What I find exciting about your line of thinking is that you can actually positively influence your feelings, and so all aspects of your life, through the music you listen to, the books you read, and the films and television you choose to watch.

I agree, I believe music does influence how we feel. I don't know why though unless it works on us at an unconscience level. I remember years ago I worked at a t-shirt printing plant. There was always an argument about the where the radio station would be set at. The supervisors finally decided to set it on country in the mornings and after lunch they set it on hard rock. Oddly enough, we always produced more in the afternoons. I noticed I produced more in the afternoons. Not because I liked the music, I didn't. If I want to listen to what sounds like a bunch of pots and pans being banged together and screaming, I would let my kids at time have access to my pots and pans cubbard. The music produced aggitation in me. And it did in the guys too. I noticed that although they wanted this music to be played, they were more verbally aggressive toward each other.