What do you feel?

All physical and mental boundaries disappear!

I find the beauty of the music very healing and it makes me soul-connected to listen rather than in my head. I can use music to celebrate a good mood or change a bad mood into good. The power of beauty to heal is profound. Music was even able to reach me after my brother's suicide, when very little could get trough the grief.

I use music to help me relax when I come home from work. I play music in the morning as I'm getting ready for my day and this could be rock or soft classical depending on my mood.

Aside from that, when I'm listening I sometimes can feel the emotions that the composer infused into the music, so sometimes that can be feeling sad, joyful, heart ache, blissful, excited, etc. That is what I love about listening to classical music. It's like listening to a whole drama unfold, complete with suspense, doom, rapture, feeling love, feeling loss- everything. It is very fun to sit back and take it all in and enjoy it.

I find that I enjoy music more when I can let myself really surrender to what the music has to offer and let myself feel it all.

i think there is another aspect of the value of music which has been implied by some of the posts. music has the ability to both alter psychological states, as has been indicated, but also alter physical states, which has not been mentioned.

music can lower blood pressure and put you to sleep, or at least contribute to a soporofic state.