#63 Happiness–How Music Effects Our Happiness
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Explore both the positive and negative impact music can have on our lives with Dr. Robert Puff's Happiness Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If you've been listening to |
| 0:19.0 | this podcast for a while, you know periodically I bring up the effects music can have on us, both good and bad. |
| 0:26.3 | Well I recently got an email from one of our listeners who has a concern about music because |
| 0:30.6 | he's in the music industry. Let me read what he wrote. |
| 0:34.0 | Dr. Puff, and join your podcast throughout the day. |
| 0:38.0 | I have what many consider a dream job, |
| 0:41.0 | building an exotic instruments I designed called Guitar V I-O-L-S, that's guitar |
| 0:47.0 | violes, I believe. My clients are typically respected film, TV media composers, which is both exciting and at |
| 0:54.9 | time stressful. |
| 0:57.0 | The weight of wearing the hats required can get to be a bit much for a creative ADHD hunter-mind that is at its best when creating in a serene, |
| 1:07.0 | uneventful setting and stress keeping up with the rest of it. |
| 1:11.0 | Ironically, I created this instrument for my own purpose and it took |
| 1:15.7 | off, but to the point I barely play anymore. Lately, I've been considering the possibility |
| 1:21.2 | of healing music productions. |
| 1:23.0 | Anyways, thank you for putting these wonderful resources out there. |
| 1:28.0 | You mentioned the effects of stressful music we are inundated with on a daily basis. Would you consider expanding on this theme for a podcast topic? |
| 1:37.0 | Best Jonathan. |
| 1:39.0 | Before getting into this topic, I want to thank Jonathan for his email and also mention that if you do have |
| 1:45.1 | a question yourself and want me to do a podcast on it just shoot me an email my email |
| 1:50.0 | address is d r p u f f at cocks dot net before we started looking at how music can |
| 1:56.8 | affect us we have to understand who we are and I really like the analogy of |
| 2:01.5 | computers think about your computers first they have to be And I really like the analogy of computers. |
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