(according to me #notapsychologist)
Preface: I am not a psychologist; I'm a musician who happens to also be very interested in how I/we function on an emotional level.
How do you feel? Have you ever been sad but not known why? Or happy, without having a good reason? Enter the power of songwriting.
I had been writing songs for a while before I realized that they could be more than just creative projects. They could actually be a form of emotional processing.
Sometimes I sit down to write a song about a specific experience. A break up or mental health or a reflection on some concept or world scenario. But more often, as I write down the words to a music I have made, I realise what the song is about, word by word, and therefore something about myself, no matter how heavy or mundane.
Just recently I helped myself process the concept of Death through lyrics. Here is a small excerpt from the (as of yet unreleased) song:
"My body aches
My body breaks
My body will decompose
I'm frightened of the end
I can't claim to pretend
In seconds I will end
And then where will I go?"
These lyrics are honest and poetic in ways that mean I don't have to hold my fears and ideas in the peripheries of my mind any more. I know where to find them when I need them.

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