Why Music Is Important: How Tunes, Rituals & Everyday Sounds Shape Our Life

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Music is one of the few things in life that touches us without asking for permission. It slips into the background of our routines, our memories, our moods, and even our healing. We all know songs can make us cry, dance, smile, or escape but the deeper question many of us ask is: why music is important?

For me, this question became clearer over the years, especially now, in November 2025. This is the month when I realized that music is not just something I listen to it’s something that holds me, shifts me, and helps me express parts of myself I don’t always understand.

I’ve always been someone who listens to tunes more than lyrics. Melodies make sense to me before words do. They calm me, reset my mind, and make my mornings feel gentle. But recently, lyrics have started making sense too. Maybe because life has changed.

In this blog, I want to share why music is important not just from a scientific point of view, but from a lifestyle perspective from the messy, personal, emotional lens that makes music feel magical.

1. Music Shapes Moods Instantly: Even Before We Notice

One of the biggest reasons why music is important is because it has this instant emotional power. You can be having a chaotic morning, and the moment a soft tune plays, something inside you settles.

That’s exactly how I start my day. Not with podcasts, not with loud beats but with gentle melodies. And honestly, it’s not the lyrics that get me. It’s the flow of the tune. The rhythm. The softness. The part that doesn’t need language.

Some mornings it’s slow Bollywood songs.
Some days it’s old Shahrukh Khan melodies.
Sometimes it’s Punjabi beats.
And sometimes it’s a random Marathi song that just fits the energy of the moment.

Even though my playlist has no theme, it has one purpose to make me feel grounded.

Numerous studies show that music affects the brain’s limbic system your emotional center. This alone explains why music is important for emotional regulation, especially during the first hour of your day.

Mornings don’t always need productivity.
Sometimes, they just need a tune.

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2. Music Helps Us Untangle Our Thoughts

We all have moments when our mind feels like a traffic jam thoughts going nowhere, emotions stuck, questions piling up. That’s where I feel music plays a huge role in my life. It helps me unwind mentally.

When I listen to tunes, my mind slows down. The noise inside me becomes quieter. Even on days when I don’t feel like talking to anyone, music becomes a silent companion that understands the gaps.

This is another reason why music is important because it helps with mental clarity. Science calls this “neural entrainment,” where the brain synchronizes with rhythm. I call it a mind detox.

3. Music Becomes Rituals: Morning Tunes, Night Mantras

The reason why music is important goes beyond mood. It becomes part of our rituals, the routines that comfort us.

For me:
Morning starts with soft tunes.
Night ends with spiritual sound.

Every night, I switch to Navkar Mantra, Bajrang Baan, or other calming chants. This has become the way I close my day not with noise but with grounding energy. Music isn’t just entertainment here; it becomes a spiritual anchor.

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4. When Lyrics Start Making Sense… Life Changes a Little

For years, I was someone who didn’t care much for lyrics. I connected more with the tune. But something shifted around November 2025 suddenly the words started making sense. Lines that once felt like nothing now felt personal.

Maybe this is one of the most underrated reasons why music is important because it grows with you. When your life changes, the meaning of songs changes too.

There are songs I’ve heard a hundred times, but they feel new now.
There are lyrics I ignored earlier, but I understand them deeply today.
There are tunes that once felt exciting, but now feel comforting.

Music is like a diary written by someone else but lived by you.

5. Music Connects Cultures, Memories & Identity

My playlist is a perfect example of how fluid music can be Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan nostalgia, Punjabi beats that lift the mood, and Marathi songs that feel earthy and warm.

This mix is exactly why music is important culturally. It reminds you of:

• where you come from
• what you love
• what you’ve lived
• what you’re becoming

Music becomes a memory-keeper.
A time capsule.
A mood passport.

Songs from childhood, songs from travel, songs from friendships all of them create tiny emotional bookmarks inside our life story.

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6. Music Supports Mental Health Without Feeling Like “Healing Work”

We often talk about mental health in a way that feels heavy. But sometimes healing can be simple like listening to a tune you love.

Music can:

• lower stress hormones
• reduce anxiety
• stabilize breathing
• help emotional release
• increase dopamine (the happy hormone)

7. Music Makes Ordinary Moments Feel Beautiful

Why does a simple walk feel better with music?
Why does cleaning feel easier when a tune plays?
Why do nights feel softer when mantras echo in the background?

Because music adds texture to moments.

Even mundane things driving, cooking, folding laundry feel peaceful with the right soundtrack.

This is one more reason why music is important in everyday lifestyle. It turns normal moments into mindful moments.

Music teaches you how to be present without forcing mindfulness.

8. Music Helps Us Understand Ourselves Without Words

Sometimes, we feel things we can’t explain. There are emotions we can’t name. Music often expresses the feelings we don’t know how to articulate.

This is why music feels like therapy without the pressure of speaking.

It says:
“You don’t need to explain. Just feel.”

That’s why why music is important emotionally it becomes a safe space.

How Music, Rhythm, and Writing Help Me Capture My Life

One of the most beautiful shifts in my life has been learning to enjoy the rhythm of music the flow, the rhyme, the way words fall into place like they were meant to sit together.

And maybe this change began because October 2025 became one of the most special months of my life. For the first time, I started summarizing my thoughts in little poetic snippets small verses, tiny lines, pieces of emotion captured through words.

Over time I’ve begun to believe something wholeheartedly:

A photograph freezes a moment.
But writing whether in a poem, rhyme, or a musical flow, lets you live that moment twice.

And this is another intimate reason why music is important to me.
It isn’t just something I listen to.
It has become a medium through which I understand myself, my memories, and the emotions that shaped me.

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