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	Emotions Caused by Music are Intelligent Emotions Part 1 by Susan Dunn Momentum Coaching
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Emotions Caused by Music are Intelligent Emotions
Part 1
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Desperate because homeless people were camping out in a New York bus station, proprietors played opera music. It worked like a charm. It also worked when a California convenience store piped opera in their parking lot to drive drug-dealers away. I find this amazing since I just paid $200 to hear an opera.

Most of us enjoy music, some of us at near-euphoric levels. "Amusia" (no emotional response) is rare, and associated with "disordered musical perception". In other words, to know music is to love it, but we have our individual tastes. If you think not, try sharing an office and a radio with someone.

To know why there's this discrepancy among individuals, we would have to get inside the human brain. Fortunately with the positron emission tomography (PET) we can, and we have the research of Anne Blood and Robert Zatorre (B&Z) of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

B&Z wrote about a subject who had "an intense, altered emotional state or 'transformation' ... only produced by particular pieces by Rachmaninov, and [not in] response to music other than Rachmaninov's, nor to other sensory experiences."

Whatever piece it is to you, this is the music T. S. Eliot describes as, "Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, But you are the music while the music lasts."

Why does music effect our emotions this way? Music is sound waves. The cochlea in our ears translates them into electrical impulses which travel to the brain stem, and then become brain waves (alpha, delta, etc.). When we say we've been moved or touched by a piece of music, indeed we have. Music may be felt as much as heard.

In fact, Beethoven continued to compose symphonies after becoming deaf by placing a board between the bone in his neck and the piano strings so he could feel the vibrations. B&Z found that music was like a depth charge, heading straight for a pleasure center, those areas of the brain responsive to reward/motivation, emotion and arousal that are known to light up in response to food, sex, and drugs like cocaine.

We know food and sexual activity increase dopamine activity in a site identified as NAc, that there's increased activity in the midbrain and 3 other regions when we eat chocolate, and that there are changes in 8 regions, nearly 3 times as many, during a cocaine rush, including the amygdala which releases excitatory chemicals into the blood stream.

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