Here goes the drooling dog again. Let’s speak a little bit about conditioning ourselves and using the power of reframing music for the good cause.

To be less cryptic: I talked about the effect of music on my emotional state. That is nothing new and, in itself, there is nothing to add to.

But what if I can use the nostalgic value of music and make it an invaluable tool to tap into emotional states pretty easily and that for a good and sustainable emotional state?

To take into account yesterdays insights about the use of music to let loose and unlock certain emotions, today I tried it in a different fashion, although without knowing what would happen.

Well, the effect could have been predictable, but I didn’t come to this conclusion earlier.

So, what did I do? I listened to the same playlist like yesterday, but the underlying emotions are not only for the sake of melancholy, but also for good emotions. And that was the point of recognition:

I walked a wonderfully sunny pathway along a small river in the rural sites of my county, and when emotions and memories of different episodes of my life came in different layers, I recognized that I can use the music in combination with a good experience or episode to “conserve” positive emotions in the according track like a time capsule.

In other words: All the stacked up, in my mind, positively connoted emotions related to the songs, come back to me, when I listened to them today, in a very similar way they were, when I listened in different phases of my life. Does that sound complicated? Yes.

To make it easier: I have positive emotions I can tap into. More phases I listened to the music means more layers of positive emotions. And right now, I try to add another layer of positive emotions into these songs. Not only for later phases of my life, but also for the close future, when I need to remind myself that things are going well in the moment I added the new emotional layer to the song.

This way, I don’t need to live too much in the past, but I can also transfer the positive emotions from the recent past directly into my present. That is very helpful in the sense that I need a good feeling about myself with current and actual positively loaded memories and not only memories from days long gone.

Until next time, keep up the faith in yourself and take one step at a time at a time.