About That Music Experiment. . .

This hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be. First of all, day two was my cleaning day. Now, I can't very well clean without my cleaning music, can I? I have a playlist of the most obnoxious, fun, cheesy, rock-out music that I always listen to while I clean. It just makes the cleaning go faster. So I had to make an exception for that. But after a while I noticed that I was more grumpy than usual. And my internal nagger was going crazy nagging me about following through with my music experiment. So I finally shut off my fun music and begrudgingly finished the rest of my cleaning to classical music. That darn nagger! She always gets her way. But I have to admit that cleaning to classical music was sort of fun.

Then a few days later I was driving home and I was just in the mood for blasting music. I never knew listening to music could be so addicting! I was totally "jones-ing" as we used to say in high school. So I decided to blast classical. It was the only thing I could think of. And you know, it was actually pretty cool. It reminded me of when I quit eating so much sugar and I could actually taste the flavor of the food I was eating. There was so much to listen to in the classical music that I never paid attention to before. And there is definitely an element of "rock out" in some classical music.

I gave a fhe lesson on music and used Jack Christianson's talk called Music: Apples or Onions It was awesome. It really gave my kids something to think about. They've been choosing much more uplifting music since then. That is no small miracle. So all in all, I think my experiment is going pretty well. I don't have intrusive lyrics going through my head anymore. I've been waking up happy every morning. (Side note - In one of my classes I learned that listening to classical music helps lift depression.) I'm going to keep up my experiment a while longer. I'll post about it again if anything interesting happens.