Blog Better With The Right Music

Numerous studies have shown that all music effects the human brain and that different genres produce different effects. A huge part of blogging comes from the part of the brain that deals with imagination - creativity. Self-improvement blogs have so much focus on physical and mental training activities you can do to stimulate the brain, yet to my surprise there is so little speak of music, which when you can just “plug-in” and have your perspective changed.

Music has a effect much more significant than most other self-improvement tips, if you don’t believe that try blogging while listening some heavy metal - your brain wont work! Finding the right music can create the opposite effect of that and directly “zap” the parts of your brain you are trying to access to produce activity.

How Music Alters Concentration

This is a personal theory, but it is backed up by science.

I find that music which has an obvious and distinct beat to it demands too much attention (e.g. most rock, rap and dance). It takes the attention of the mind and the body. I think of it as melody is for the mind, beat is for the body. That is backed up by science which finds classical music with a less obvious best (notably Mozart) to be good for concentration.

It also helps explain why older people tend to listen to less up-beat music. Very generally rock, rap and dance are what younger people listen to and classical is for the older. Of course many people enjoy both, but generally that is true. This links into dancing being linked to sex because the older you get the less sex-drive you have and so the desire to listen to up-beat music, which is for the body, declines. Generally with age (not that I have much experience of that!) life becomes less physical.

Conclusion

The melody needs to be more defined than the beat for only the concentration center of the brain to be stimulated. If you are finding yourself stuck with bloggers block, music may well be the cure.

A further step to experiment with is listening to the same music at the same time each day just before starting work to try and associate that music with work. You can try and see if it helps you slip into “work mode”.

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