Excellent writeup. Music is so universal across all of humanity and is the one art form that bypasses our rational/mental faculties and goes straight to the heart and soul. There's tremendous power in it for healing, though it can also be used to reinforce hurts and moods (or incite violence, etc.)
I've made a study of the spiritual effects of music for some years, primarily concentrating on the compositions of J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda) who specifically wrote music for spiritual upliftment. One effect of that upliftment is that each of his ~350 pieces evokes an opposite consciousness to specific challenging emotions or "hard feelings" as you call them at the end of this post. I have an article about this (with a few embedded music tracks) called "Meditation Music: An effective shortcut to higher consciousness" (https://www.ananda.org/blog/meditation-music/, written under my legal name not my pen name as I use here) that's in a way builds on what you've discussed.
Along these lines, "Accidentally in Love" is an energetic song whose upbeat tempo, generally rising melody line, and the use of words like "higher," "brighter," and "lighter" in its chorus can easily help one get out of downcast moods, apathy, and pessimism. Listening to it--especially listening to it when sitting upright with eyes closed and really absorbing it, rather than just having it playing in the background--would, I think, fill one with a sense of optimism and an ability to fall in love with life, if even a little bit. So, if you've been watching depressing news, for example, turn off the video, listen deeply to this song, then go walk outside a little bit, and I think you'll be seeing the world in a new light.
Fascinating
Skimmed this, so interesting! My plan is to really read this weekend.
Accidentally in love is such a happy song
Excellent writeup. Music is so universal across all of humanity and is the one art form that bypasses our rational/mental faculties and goes straight to the heart and soul. There's tremendous power in it for healing, though it can also be used to reinforce hurts and moods (or incite violence, etc.)
I've made a study of the spiritual effects of music for some years, primarily concentrating on the compositions of J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda) who specifically wrote music for spiritual upliftment. One effect of that upliftment is that each of his ~350 pieces evokes an opposite consciousness to specific challenging emotions or "hard feelings" as you call them at the end of this post. I have an article about this (with a few embedded music tracks) called "Meditation Music: An effective shortcut to higher consciousness" (https://www.ananda.org/blog/meditation-music/, written under my legal name not my pen name as I use here) that's in a way builds on what you've discussed.
Along these lines, "Accidentally in Love" is an energetic song whose upbeat tempo, generally rising melody line, and the use of words like "higher," "brighter," and "lighter" in its chorus can easily help one get out of downcast moods, apathy, and pessimism. Listening to it--especially listening to it when sitting upright with eyes closed and really absorbing it, rather than just having it playing in the background--would, I think, fill one with a sense of optimism and an ability to fall in love with life, if even a little bit. So, if you've been watching depressing news, for example, turn off the video, listen deeply to this song, then go walk outside a little bit, and I think you'll be seeing the world in a new light.