Key points

Music shifts the brain into focus and calm by activating reward and emotional networks.

Music teaches collaboration by helping us adjust to one another in real time.

Deep listening builds awe, empathy, curiosity, and shared understanding.

One intentional song a day can reset mood, energy, and connection.

With gratitude to Bena Kallick, our advisor and mentor.

Music Shapes the Way We Think and Feel

Music drifts through our daily lives the way light slips through blinds. Quiet, constant, and easy to overlook. It hums in grocery stores, pulses in elevators, fills the space between us on the subway. Most of the time, we barely notice. But when we stop, when we choose one song, silence the noise, and really listen, music transforms.

A breath slows. A memory surfaces. A qu

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