Music Helps Me

Hello everyone, I thought it'd be a great time to check in on how music is impacting your lives since you last posted. Personally, music has provided me some immense comfort in some stressful times recently and it would be great to hear some of your experiences.

@peach414144 @parus and @cherriann have there been any moments where a particular song or music in general has lifted your spirits or calmed you down?

I want to post a thought re music in our lives. I get triggered to my past with most music so I try not to listen to it. But I have a story about my jazz fanatic music lover husband. As you may already know, he is now disabled with lung and heart issues. He's never played an instrument in his life. The short version of this is that he just bought a used saxophone. It will arrive next week. He is gonna watch you tube videos to learn how to play it. He is 64! With asthma. He is doing this for his depression and anxiety related to disability and he has no hobbies other than listening to music he certainly can't play. Since doing this, his entire mental state is changing . He's home all day and now he can be home with his saxophone and he can use his OCD issues in a good way. I wanted to share his story in case this idea might catch a music lover who wishes they could play. And there's no age limit.

Oh, and the music teacher has asthma like my husband and is gonna teach him breathing techniques so he can play

Just listened to a Facebook post by two Mayo doctors with musical talent and a third doctor recording the session...awesome singing and piano. Hopefully you can see Facebook posts.
https://www.facebook.com/elvis.francois.3/posts/10100491022024764
It's also a few places on the Internet.

Rochester Doctor Lifts Up the City "When It's Feeling Low"
-- http://1039thedoc.com/rochester-doctor-lifts-up-city-when-its-feeling-low/

John

I want to post a thought re music in our lives. I get triggered to my past with most music so I try not to listen to it. But I have a story about my jazz fanatic music lover husband. As you may already know, he is now disabled with lung and heart issues. He's never played an instrument in his life. The short version of this is that he just bought a used saxophone. It will arrive next week. He is gonna watch you tube videos to learn how to play it. He is 64! With asthma. He is doing this for his depression and anxiety related to disability and he has no hobbies other than listening to music he certainly can't play. Since doing this, his entire mental state is changing . He's home all day and now he can be home with his saxophone and he can use his OCD issues in a good way. I wanted to share his story in case this idea might catch a music lover who wishes they could play. And there's no age limit.

I need to add to that story. We live in a small town in cowboy country. No music not even a movie theater. A tourist town. Healing sulfur springs and mountains. We are both city people. He assumed he could never even find a music teacher of course. Pot dispensaries everywhere. But nothing for creativity like writing groups or music . Our own interests.
However, the universe works in strange ways. So does God. Turns out our next door neighbor is a music teacher at middle school.
Turns out she has a side job giving private music lessons. And guess what she teaches. Yup. Alto sax. There's a lesson here somewhere.

@georgette12

I used to teach piano, and I had several people who were 70+. They were fun to teach, and to listen to. They had great stories. That's one reason I volunteered for Hospice. One student did vaudeville with her family. Another one was the daughter of the founder of the Mentholatom company. He sent his brother to check out a product that another company started to market, with the possible intention of buying them out. He returned later and told his brother that the product would never be any competition. Boy, was he wrong! The product was Vicks.

I found that senior students were much more motivated and interested than the kids whose parents made them take lessons.

Jim