Why music is the best way to express your emotions?

"Written music is only the very map with which greater hands have sketched out the greater lands they have traversed and wish to share with those willing to embark on that same journey." -Gabrielle Hammond

What better way is there to express your emotions than through music? There's just something so comforting or powerful as the message you send through your music, whether you're listening to it or you are making it yourself. No other medium is so effective worldwide as music is when it comes to expressing yourself. Music doesn't limit you like so many other mediums making it the pinnacle of artistic expression.

There are so many ways to express yourself through music that you can use everyday. You can feel the charge of music as it feels you with energy and excitement. Music can be incredibly motivating because of its rhythm and content. Music is often found to be one of the most therapeutic options for stress. So it comes as no surprise that it displays emotions so well. First of all, it's an exceptional mode of expressing sadness. Contemplation and meditation is what I have found easier to do while I am playing. Many people have found that music focuses you thoughts when dwelling. Victor Hugo once said “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” So in essence music is where you display those emotions that just cannot be expressed. When you feel those sudden spurts of motivation, music is one of the best ways to focus your mind and learn more. Even in the early stages of life, babies respond to the stimuli present in music with smiles, tears, and other emotion responses. Although not usually a source for music, anger can create a rigid variety of music that tends to be a little louder because it states the crux of the creator's emotions. Music has been found to be the best way to play out anger issues without causing harm. Happiness, besides sadness, is one of the most common themes in music. Sometimes emotion is just so overcoming that one simply must tell everyone and inundate all with their extreme joys. Where words fail us the keys of a piano or the strings of a guitar vibrate the very depths of our souls in a message that can be universally understood. “Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen Words can only create so many opportunities to express yourself while the complexity yet simplicity of music is eternal. For those who have a hard time expressing their emotions verbally, music sets them free. So ask yourself this question: "What better way is there to express yourself than in music?"