Music plays a major role in society and has been a driving force in humanity, especially in today's world. People listen to music when they run or take a bath, even as background noise when working. Music has become part of people's daily lives. The reason music has played such an important role in the lives of almost every human is because of the way it affects us. Listening to music makes people feel, whether it is a feeling of happiness or a feeling of sadness. Listening to music makes humans feel emotions and this is what allows us to thrive. Music tends to impact an individual's mood and behavior. People can benefit from recognizing how music makes them feel and using it to their advantage. When feeling stressed, people may use music as an escape. Music helps distract people from pain and improves mood (Jabr). In Jane Collingwood's article, The Power of Music to Reduce Stress, it is written: "As music can absorb our attention, it acts as a distraction while helping to explore emotions. This means it can be a great aid to meditation, helping to stop the mind from wandering” (Collingwood). Music has the ability to extract people who are suffering from their own personal problems in life and experience better emotions than what they are facing. Jane Collingwood also says that using music during meditation is extremely calming and “[…] can help the mind slow down and initiate the relaxation response” (Collingwood). Soft classical music is best known for having a calm and relaxing effect on an individual's body and mind, and soft music with a familiar tone is more comforting (Collingwood). It has been found that music can help you relax physically by slowing the pulse and heart rate, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing blood levels...... middle of paper ...... attached to each other. When a person experiences a painful emotion, they need reassurance that others have felt the same way. Knowing that others have experienced what they are feeling makes the recovery process easier and helps us deal with painful emotions. Music is one of the ways humans experience emotion and connection. Producing music helps us display emotions while listening to music helps us feel and connect with those emotions. Depending on the type of music an individual listens to, they can feel all kinds of emotions. Music produces positivity and helps people manage their emotions. As New York State counselor Nathan Feiles says, “[music] can be used to elicit underlying emotions and teach us about the unconscious elements of our emotional structure” (Feiles). Music can affect humans in positive ways and people can benefit from it.