I wanted to end the year on a bright note by sharing a musical video clip that was sent to me by Zing community member Lily in Palo Alto, California.

Music Lifts Our Spirits

Music has an amazing ability to lift our spirits by releasing the pleasure-related neurotransmitter dopamine as we listen. It is also a powerful way to evoke memory. Music may jog an explicit memory such as “where was I that summer when this song was popular?” but it also summons implicit memories. These are more reactive, emotional memories that occur outside of consciousness.

Music can transport us to certain periods in our lives via something psychologists call the “reminiscence bump.” We hear a classic hit and we’re back on our college campus or reminiscing about a first romance.

Music replays the past memories, awakens our forgotten worlds, and makes our minds travel. — Michael Bassey Johnson,
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Click here to enjoy this great collection of movie dance clips set to the song “Born to Be Alive” by Patrick Hernandez. You will be transported to a place of positivity, which we can all use at the end of 2020.