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Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

Frequency Hacking: Using Music Rewires Your Brain and Transforms Your Emotional State with Sara and Mort Sherman • 395

Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

Melissa Monte | Mindset Mentor

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.9897 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you'll learn: How to create your own "frequency medicine" for different emotional states Practical techniques for using music to strengthen neural pathways for focus, creativity, and emotional regulation How to use the science of entrainment to create deeper connections with others through shared musical experiences Ever notice how music has this weird power to completely change your state in an instant? One moment you're going through the motions, and then—boom—a certain melody catches you off guard and suddenly you're feeling everything. It's like different songs hold different keys to unlock different parts of us. The right sound at the right moment can crack you open, give you chills, or transport you to a memory so vivid you can almost smell it. Scientists have caught cells talking to each other through vibrations, not just chemicals. It's a whole language happening inside you right now. When these frequencies sync up, you feel clear, balanced, healthy. When they're scrambled? That's when the physical and emotional crap hits the fan. External sounds literally reprogram your internal rhythms. That's why a chaotic, noisy Target run leaves you drained, while the right playlist can reorganize your scattered brain into something resembling sanity. Most of us have no clue this is happening. We're unconsciously tuning – or mistuning – ourselves all day through our environments and especially through what we listen to. We're walking around letting random frequencies dictate our internal state without even realizing we have a choice. Today our guests are Sarah Botta and Mort Schindler, authors of "Resonant Minds: The Transformative Power of Music One Note at a Time." Sarah is a classical pianist and founder of Mozart for Munchkins, while Mort brings decades of experience in education and mindfulness practice. Together, they've created a practical approach to using music as a tool for transformation. Links from the episode: Show Notes: mindlove.com/395 Join the Mind Love Collective Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes to wake up inspired Support Mind Love Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever noticed how music has this weird power to completely change your state in an instant?

0:09.0

One moment you're going through the motions, and then boom, a certain melody just catches you off guard,

0:15.0

and suddenly you're feeling everything.

0:18.0

It's like different songs hold different keys to unlock different parts of us.

0:22.6

The right sound at the right moment can crack you open. It can give you chills or transport you to a memory so vivid you can almost smell it.

0:31.6

I took my toddlers to the Santa Barbara Zoo last weekend.

0:35.6

Solo parent trip with two and four year old boys

0:39.1

because apparently I enjoy chaos.

0:41.7

Well, picture this.

0:42.9

I am juggling snacks and water bottles and sunscreen

0:46.6

while my four year old announces that he needs to pee right now.

0:50.6

And my two year old decides the lion enclosure fence

0:53.7

looks climbable.

0:55.0

My neck was so tense I could barely turn my head.

0:59.0

Parent mode in full survival swing.

1:01.0

Well then we passed this random older gentleman playing a wooden flute near the white-handed gibbon exhibit.

1:09.0

Not part of the zoo.

1:10.0

Just some random street musician

1:12.8

who set up shop and decided to spread a little joy. And something weird happened. The chaos just

1:20.1

paused. Those simple notes cut through everything. The mental checklist, the constant vigilance, all of it.

1:29.3

And not just for me, both of my boys.

1:33.3

My breathing slowed down, my shoulders dropped.

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