And the playlist to go with it.
Have you ever heard the song “Food for the Soul”? I believe one of the first lines of dialogue goes a little something like: “To the music / It turned out to be / food for the soul.”
It hits your ears, then your body, and soon it takes over your soul. House music should be the mandate for an energetic life. Consider this article your declaration.
In the last few weeks of winter through ever-changing cold and grey skies, house music really was my sunshine – it changed my life like rose colored glasses. I gained my active status back through high-paced beats pacing my every walk to class, my every run on the treadmill, every restless itch in my apartment fueled by my dancing to the sound of Max Dean.Â
I’m even listening to house music right now. It’s making me write quicker.
Science of the Energetic Wavelength
The key to house music is letting yourself feel it. Even when you’re not listening, your body is.
Music activates the reward pathways in your brain, similar to the way sex, social interaction or new experiences do. So, what makes house music so different than other genres?
I think of it as similar to that science about smiling we’ve all heard before: smile and you’ll release endorphins! Trick your brain into being happy.
Acquiring the taste
Sure, house music is an acquired taste – my playlist starts out easy. Yet, I’d consider it no more of an acquired taste than Lizzie McAlpine or heartbreak Taylor Swift.
Think about how you resonate with the music you listen to and focus on the lyrics – do you really wanna feel them? Does that slow beat invoke an emotion that’s gonna make you want to jump out of bed or lie there and cry in it?
Sorry if that’s harsh, I’m on a house energy high (and you can be too).Â
The music has been ruling my life in ways that make me listen to more music than just house. Cigarettes After Sex to wind down before bed, rave music before I go out or country when I feel like singing.Â
The best part of house music is that once you get tired of it, you just turn on more music to wind down – your life literally becomes music.
What comes first, the good mood or the house music?
Even just focusing on something other than stressors is stress-relieving. There’s a certain intentionality behind listening to house. It’s high energy, it’s a quick pace.
In order to feel it, you have to be in tune with nothing but the music. Literally replace the stress in your brain.
Find a beat that scratches that itch so well you don’t have to focus to feel it, and other, less naturally appealing beats will start to naturally encroach. You’ll have five random unidentifiable mixes of “Give It To Me” playing on repeat in your mind by the end of the week.