🇬🇧 Positive effects from music

The power of music and its relationship with our individual identity is curious, more than that identification with a group.

I've been listening to metal since the 90's, and I've always heard other styles. But metal is the one that most dialogues with me and expresses my emotions. It's the perfect soundtrack for any moment. It is not any band. There are several whose songs don't suit me or cause me to feel good.

I was here listening to my metal playlist just now and started playing “The healer” by Primal Fear. I already commented here that I went to their show, without knowing the band, in the first months that I was in Porto Alegre, when I didn't know almost anyone in the city, and nobody with a musical taste similar to mine. And now I was thinking about the pride I feel for myself, because I've lived in 4 very different places, which have very little in common, and for the teenager that I was, that was impossible. It seemed even more impossible to meet my idols. I remember that when I lived in Uberlândia I met a gaucho in a group about Nightwish on Yahoo! He posted photos with the band that included a photo sitting on the airport floor with the singer. And I wondered what kind of privileged position in life he must have to achieve that. But when I went to Porto Alegre it was this same person who ended up creating the opportunity for my first meeting with Nightwish. And from then on there were many other bands. Going out and moving on, looking for your own space and not your parents' is not for everyone. Adapting to the different and even generating changes in the environment is not everyone's success. It is for you and me that you identify with the idea of ​​cultural nomadism, of traveling, visiting other places, living in other places, and instead of losing our identity we lose it is what we absorb from third parties, but it was never really ours. It takes courage.

Music and fashion (more specifically the development of a personal style) freed me from low self-esteem and depression, among other problems that I faced in childhood, adolescence and part of adult life. The digital universe allows me to connect with people who somehow identify with me and value who I am and what I do. I think that's why I have a special affection for blogging, even when everyone is making videos on YouTube. I like written communication better. The speech I reserve for people close to me, eye to eye, although sometimes I do stories on TV or videos for social networks. The idea of ​​studying music comes to give voice to my feelings in other ways. And maybe helping other people to connect with their true selves in the way that music helped me make that connection and break free of chains of thorns. In the same way that I use personal image work to help people get to know themselves more deeply and have a style that is really theirs, and not mine, the way I used this tool for my own development.

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Nycka, the Nomad