Stephanie, I agree with Megan on music being therapeutic and exercising parts of our brain that some may not utilize often. Where I differ is in modern music. Everyone has different tastes in what type of music moves them, and in what direction. My issue is a lot of music today has no heart and soul because it was image produced. The music that moves me has to touch my heart; is generally written by the artist from real life experience; and transports my heart and mind to the place the writer wrote the music. That moment when you are lost in the music, and everything else fades out is when I find music to be therapeutic and mind altering. The difficulty being that one can not get there with fluff.