This week has been a pretty sh****y week to be honest. I woke up this morning, got to the sofa with a coffee and as soon as I finished my coffee, I felt completely done in, so made my way back to bed. Now I’m lying here, in pain. I’ve spent the last half an hour writhing on my bed and shouting to myself, because of the pain and the frustration!! No one mentions that part do they!! This is a regular thing for me actually, I end up moaning while fidgeting and trying to get comfortable at least. If anyone saw me, they would think I had completely lost the plot!! There is always one thing that I can rely on to distract me (to a point anyway) and that is music! So I now have my playlist on.
My music taste has always been varied. I grew up hearing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin through to Dr Hook and Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush to Black Sabbath. Most of my happiest memories involve music. So as I grew up it only seemed natural that I wanted to learn music too, so I started playing the flute when I was 9ish and carried on till I was around 16. It’s weird cause whenever I would play, all my concentration would go into that. Nothing else would exist for those minutes I would be playing a tune. As life goes though, it wasn’t cool to be a flute player (especially after American Pie came out!!) so I havent played properly in years now, but music has continued to always be a constant in my life. I have my happy songs, my sad songs, my positive songs and the songs I can just have a good old cry to! My music taste is even wider now, still including all of the above and more!
Today I’m on my positive playlist:
Christina Aguilera
Britney Spears
Frozen
Emile Sands
Christina Perri
Nickelback
Ellie Goulding
Kate Bush
These are just a few on the list
Music can bring out so many emotions in you, and I find, can even help to change your mood. So today, I’m feeling so angry and useless, therefore I am trying to play the most positive of songs to change my way of thinking.
If you listen to lyrics, they can seem so personal during certain times, and this is another reason I find it helps. Knowing that someone may actually understand exactly where you’re coming from!!
Now I know this isn’t so much ‘adhesion’ related but music is a tool I use so much during bad ‘ARD’ days and something I wanted to share with others.
So next time you’re feeling in pain, down in the dumps and really not seeing the point in anything, try making a ‘Positive Playlist’ and see what it does for your mood. If you’re feeling up to it, why not even have a bit of a boogie to it and see if music can really heal your soul……
Diary of Adhesions 