How Music Can Soothe The Soul And Help With The Healing Process

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." --- C.S.Lewis 

This quote can apply to many different scenarios in life. There are many times when you have to let go of something or someone in order to move on. A break up between two people can be painful, but if one person cannot move past the pain and start to heal, then they will stuck much like a kid hanging on the monkey bars. When you let go with one hand to move it forward, there is that scary moment where you just hanging on with one hand grasping desperately for the next bar and hoping you do not fall. 

The same applies if you lose a friend, a loved one, or even something like a dream job: you need to let it go to get over it. Look at things in your own life and what can you let go of. For example, holding a grudge against someone who wronged you years before. Is that really something you want to carry around with you? Those kind of things cause you added stress whether you realize it or not. When you let go of it, you can feel some type of peace. 

I feel like this quote resonates the most with the most with me because of my battle with severe depression and anxiety. It is hard sometimes to see the good in my life, but by going to karaoke and music in general has helped me. Music can soothe the soul and help with the healing process. While listening to music, you feel more relaxed and almost at peace. 

It is one of the reason I created this blog, throughout the years, it has been a sad and meaningful experience. I wanted this blog to reach out to those that were hurting as well as remember those precious lives that were lost due to  extreme stress and committed suicide. They can never be replaced,  but with a beautiful composition, they can be remembered always. There are many tragedies in the world, and it is always hard to make sense of things that happen like this, but music is one way we can heal. 

There are many ways music can help you, like when you experience a loss in your life. Letting go of someone is simply hard, especially when you do not know what the afterlife hold; it can feel like a hole in your heart. When you are a kid, the monkey bars seem high; when you are on Earth, Heaven seems so far away. No matter what you think about the afterlife, it can help you feel better to think that you will see your loved ones again someday. It also helps us a lot to think they are in a much better place and no longer in pain if they were. It is never easy to lose someone you love, but you have to learn to let go. Going through mourning is normal, and once you have passed the stages of grief and given your heart time, then you can start to heal again. 

Music is something that I love to do and something that has helped me throughout my life. I started singing when I was five years old. I learned very quickly from listening to the music via radio station. My mother recognized my love to music and enroll to our church choir. I was singing at our church for least 3 years and then I decided to quit. I was a victim of bullying when I was younger, and music became my way to escape and still is. I was told I had a natural talent, so I just went with it. Singing in the karaoke room has never been better ( no one can hear you and your lousy voice from the outside ) and you get to let go as much as you want. 

I am very thankful that, my family and my ladies has never left my side. Being there for me whenever I needed someone to rant about random things or cry about silly things. I could never  ask for more. I want to thank them for helping me grow each day and becoming more than a woman I am today. Without them, I do not think I would ever survive this thunderstorms. Thank you for everything each and everyone of you have done for me and though I could never repay what you have done but I promise that, whenever each and anyone of you needed a shoulder , I will always be here.