Music: As Feeling

Music is meaningful. It brings feeling to one's self. Bennett Reimer describes feeling as emotions that are nameable in words. Reimer also decribes it as nonverbal crossings into consciousness of felt information. Reimer says feeling is beyond language. Feeling is also knowing through experiencing what ordinary language cannot express. A person can experience something like this through the power of music. Websters gives many multiple meanings of the word "feeling" such as a particular sensation of this kind and the general state of consciousness considered independently of particular sensations, thoughts, etc. A feeling is also described simply as an emotion.
Aside from feeling, human beings always think. Thoughts always cross human beings' minds in a never-ending flow. They whirl around and then shoot off in different directions. It can become frustrating at times. Inner thought cannot be controlled by thinking inwardly. One way to keep thoughts together, though, is to write down what is being thought about. Then once the thought is written down, the thought itself can be reflectively thought about. Writing and reading deepens a person's thinking.
Just like thinking, human beings always feel. Feelings always flood human beings' minds in a never-ending stream. They can overlap and rush ahead or slow down and mix together and shoot out in different directions.
Expressing a feeling through music is very remarkable. This is what makes music meaningful. Human beings can examine the materials that capture the feeling. These materials can be the melody, the tone colors, and the rhythm. With these materials, human beings can decide whether they present the feeling in a good way or a bad way. Generally, human beings can improve the feeling by improving the melody. For example, sometimes when people listen to a melody, they may notice that a particular tone seems to be weak. The melody does not express the feeling that the person is seeking. So as result, the person will try to think of a better tone that will capture what he wants to feel. Reimer states that when we do music, as a performer or as a listener, we are exercising our cognitive capacity to feel, helping us to achieve self-growth, self-knowledge and enjoyment of life.
Music is meaningul. If somone hears a happy melody, the person will become happy. Music is very powerful. It can control one's emotions and feelings. If someone hears a sad song, a person may feel the need to cry or to become sad as well. A person wants to feel what the music is saying and join in with the song. The words in music may relate to what a person is going through and that can attract the listener.