Why is music so popular? Why is it that practically everywhere you go in some countries you hear it being broadcast? Music bypasses the mundane in us, it circumvents consensus reality and touches directly into our hearts and souls. Music is magic. It can change your mood in an instant or amplify your emotions to give you better contact with them. The latter is why sad people tend to listen to sad music; it’s therapeutic because it exaggerates and supports the feelings one needs to experience and process.

Music opens up your feelings and thoughts in ways everyday life usually doesn’t. So does psychotherapy (if it’s done well). In fact, music and therapy are really the same thing. They both tap into the unsaid, unfelt, unintegrated parts of your psyche. The artists and songs you’re drawn to are those that help you access feelings and ways of experiencing life that are already in you but aren’t fully conscious.

Today’s episode explores how music is therapy and therapy is music. If you experience issues such as depression, anxiety, attention deficit, trauma, phobia, relationship conflict, etc., you can benefit from learning how the music you like and dislike reflects your inner process. It’s a mirror you can use to reflect back to yourself what’s happening in your psyche.

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