Stuck Music
Ever notice how big a part music plays in your everyday life?
Watch a movie at home sometime. Pay attention to the level of emotional involvement you feel with what you are watching. The next day, watch the same movie with the captions on and the sound off. Do you find that your level of emotional involvement in the scenes you are watching decreases?
The music or soundtrack of a movie or television show is designed to cue your emotional involvement in the program. Think of the soundtrack to a movie like “Jaws.” That low throbbing music always lets you know that the shark is about to make an appearance and someone is going to die. Listen to a soundtrack recorded from a favorite movie and you can almost see the scenes of the movie in your minds’s eye.
Music can often get ‘stuck’ in your mind and sometimes the least little thing can trigger a song that sticks in your head for hours at a time. One day, at the call center I work in, I took a call from a company doing business as the Hotel California. For the rest of the day I had that song stuck in my head. Other things can trigger other songs in the same way. And if I try to force that musin out of my head, I’ll be stuck with it a whole lot longer than if I’d just gone on with my day.
Stuck music is a good example of the Law of Attraction. By giving so much attention to trying to drive a piece of stuck music out of your head, it only gets stronger and harder to get rid of.
We all have music that helps to shape our lives. Songs we play to help us study, exercise, or get through an unpleasant task. What makes up the soundtrack of your life and why?