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Author: Schahara Suzanne Winter

Motivation & Music - by Schahara Suzanne Winter

Spoken tapes and lectures, books, and articles are the best motivational tools on the commercial market for self-improvement and productivity. Unfortunately, they are the ONLY tools that attempt to increase productivity, improve attitude, and offer increased vitality.

That is until the inception of Motivation Music, which has taken those motivational themes from the great lecturers and authors of the last decades, and turned those themes into lyrics and music for commercial styles of Top 40 music.

It's been proven: Garbage in. Garbage out. So much of our culture has become what we sing about and watch. And whatever music we hear and whatever we watch, we wind up repetitively singing it or acting it out; the words of today’s music industry Top 40 charts and the films of the entertainment industry are just reinforcements for our foul cultural evolution.

Imagine: a music industry that promoted positive lyrics with commercial styles of music. Often we say we don't care about lyrics, and that the lyrics are inconsequential and meaningless. Arguably, words matter. Repeating lyrics, listening to them, and buying the music means that we gradually come to accept the cultural changes, whether good or bad, because what we say or sing goes directly into our subconscious. We behaviorally act out what we ingest. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between whether we are kidding around, numbly and repetitiously singing lyrics, or when we are seriously praying. The subconscious mind just absorbs.

Naturally, not everyone is going to commit the crimes they sing about or see, nor are they or we always going to participate in behavior that they view. But ingesting these materials does change our perceptions and alter our acceptance of those behaviors. Ultimately, if a person has a choice to sing along to a song with lyrics about dedication, commitment, and having a better attitude rather than to sing about negative, cultural issues and irresponsibility, which one is going to make a positive difference in that person's life?

I'm betting on the Motivational Music. Elementary schools around the US are betting on it too. Positive efforts to put motivational music in the classrooms of our children as a form of encouragement and improving self worth is a daily event for some teachers as they endlessly search for new tools to aid them in their classrooms. Teachers who play a song a day until the children become familiar enough to begin to sing along with the lyrics see positive results in their students.

Implementing goal setting, attitude adjustment, and commitment to responsibility are just a few of the target issues. Motivation Music by Rusty Hudelson encourages creativity, searching for answers, dreaming big, and determination. With song titles like Tappin on your Potential, I’m So Full of Dynamite, and Big Dreamin, it's obvious that his music is creative, fun and energetic, and even a few comically challenge thinking about riches, laziness, and High IQ's.

Most of us have tried the rest; we have nothing to lose and plenty to gain by incorporating motivation music in our classrooms, workplaces, and driving to and from our desitinations.






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Schahara Suzanne Winter, BA in English and MA in Education, has taught English at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, and presently, South Plains College, Levelland, TX. Editor, marketer, and author, she presently coordinates efforts to inform and educate with music from Music Message International and Motivationmusic.com.

TRYB4UBUY Motivational Music is available for free at: http://www.mp3.com/rusty_hudelson

More information on this educational music concept can be viewed at: http://www.mp3.com/rusty_hudelson

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