Description

Welcome to the 137th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast.

This month’s theme is all about music and mental health. So, in today’s episode, I am going to be sharing with you 11 tracks that boost my mental wellbeing. 

Unfortunately, I can’t play them due to licensing regulations, but I have created a playlist as part of this episode to share with you. 

I’d love to hear from you as listeners, to make this super easy I have created a place online where you can leave me a voice note anonymously called SpeakPipe or with your name, you choose.

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In today’s show

• Why I decided to talk about music and mental health. [00:55]
• An interesting piece of research about how music affects the human brain. [01:07]
• Some of the ways music can boost our mental health. [04:26]
• How we can use music to support our mental health and wellbeing. [11:55]
• The ways in which we can use playlists as part of our wellbeing toolkit [13.05]

Quotes

• Meditative music has a very cathartic effect on us.
• Music can help us focus on our work, study or the activity that we're doing.
• Understanding how music affects your emotions goes a long way to help ease anxious and depressive thoughts.
• Music increases memory and retention, as well as maximising learning capabilities.
• When we select a piece of music and replay it, it can really help us to express emotion without having to say anything.

Resources

• The playlist
• Listen to Episode 41: Racism and Genuine Allyship
• Check out Episode 39: 5 lessons we can learn from noughts and crosses:

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