Extended Activity #1
Explore your music listening habits with four words culled from William Congreve’s quote from the play The Mourning Bride: “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
Discover these four words to recognize music’s profound effect on a person’s life: Savage, Breast, Beast, and Mindset. Read more about your music listening habits at “Music Powers Potential: Good, Bad, Ugly.”
Extended Activity #2
Analyze your five Health Zones responding to specific questions by journaling your thoughts on the Music4Life® Habits Journal (Habit 1, Activity 2). Download and print the journal at themusic4life.com/resources to track all your results, or use a personal journal to record your information.
This activity is to simply observe and journal your responses, recognizing the zones you are in.
- Physical Health Zone: Are you overly fatigued? Do you have panic attacks? Is there another health concern
- Emotional Health Zone: Are you experiencing a lot of anger, anxiety, sadness, depression or apathy
- Mental/Cognitive Health Zones: Are you having negative or racing thoughts
- Social Health Zone: Are you isolating yourself from others, or do you like partying all the time?
- Spiritual Health Zone: Do you feel disconnected from your inner spirit or higher power?
If any of your responses to the questions are “yes,” then you may be stuck in a Chronic Comfort Zone™ (referenced in upcoming Empowerment Habits).
Extended Activity #3
Go to Key2MEE® music app’s self-assessment Emotional Profile Quiz to submit your responses, then follow the process to create a username and password to access your results.
Draw your Emotional Profile image from the Music4Life® Quiz results on the Key2MEE® app representing your U.S.E. mood zones onto your Music4Life Habits Journal (Activity 3).
Read and journal your quiz results to understand your Emotional Profile, mood zones, and observations.
Extended Activity #4
Follow these three steps, journaling your responses to the Music4Life® Habits Journal (Activity 4). If you haven’t printed it already from Habit 1, Activities #2 & #3, download and print the Music4Life® Habits Journal at themusic4life.com/resources to track all your results or use a personal journal to record your information.
- Note which music listening experiences made you want to avoid listening or feeling better, worse, or the same.
- Note the resulting mood. Did you get more unsettled, more calm, or happier as a result of your chosen music?
- Compare your notes, then reflect on three possibilities that might describe your experience.
- You are so used to feeling one mood most of the time that you tolerate it and listen to music that makes you feel that mood more.
- You choose to avoid listening to music that affects your personal space (zone) and/or listen to talk radio instead of music.
- You play a good deal of online or app games with or without music.
If you agree with any of the experiences in Step #3, they could lead to a Chronic Comfort Zone™. Be aware of the condition of your Emotional Health Zone as it impacts your Physical, Mental/Cognitive, Social and Spiritual Health Zones.
Extended Activity #5
- Did your Self-Assessment report collected for Activity 3 indicate a possible Chronic Comfort Zone?
- Did you respond “yes” in Activity 2 to any of the Health Zone queries?
- When comparing your notes in Activity 4, did you answer “yes” to the queries?