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<h1 class="posttitle">Music (and more) to reframe your perspective to<br>
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<div class="copy">How do you guys maintain positivity and kinda keep yourself in a big-picture headspace? I\'m dealing with a confluence of annoyances and as a result, feeling annoyed and frustrated. How do I shift my headspace more? I\'m thinking: music and other little reminders? Can you help brainstorm songs and suggest other ideas?<br><span></span>
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<br> Examples of what\'s making me annoyed: work deadlines, we\'re moving so half our stuff isn\'t unpacked yet and I can\'t find anything, a contractor keeps tracking dirt around, the engineer doesn\'t reply until you call him three or four times so construction keeps getting slowed down, my husband\'s intermittently out of town to finish moving out of the other place so I\'m doing the parenting myself more than usual, the construction is costing money so I can\'t just pay for more help, he needs to take the car (and I am too cheap to rent a second one) so I\'m doing my single parenting by bike and transit, the new neighbors\' cat has been menacing ours so to give them time to adjust I\'ve been keeping our yowling beast indoors for awhile... I could go on.<br>
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It\'s all fine and will ease up once we get moved out and unpacked in a couple weeks. But in the meantime I\'d rather not walk around thinking "why do people suck??" "Oh another !#+ thing to deal with, greeeat." I can take a deep breath and smile, or laugh at myself, and the grumpy mood dissipates, but then it comes back again. So I\'m thinking maybe a playlist is the way to go. <br>
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I once had a temp job at a church, and the office manager kept the accounting office on a soundtrack of popular gospel and other positivity, like Whitney Houston singing "I believe the children are the future." The crazy thing is that it worked. Same thing when I lived with someone who had Bob Marley on play-repeat: I was always, y\'know, trying to lively up myself and wondering if the things I refused were the things I should use. <br>
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So I\'m thinking I need to put together a soundtrack of reminders to get over myself a little, look at the big picture and focus on ways that life is actually pretty good, be grateful for what I have, acknowledge my limitations and try to do good in the world, etc. In case my question sounds cheesy, I\'ll add that the less cheesy, the better, but honestly, my experience is that cheesy stuff also works, so all ideas are welcome.<br>
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But maybe you manage to remind yourself of all of this in other ways? I\'m totally open to hearing about all of that, too. Thanks!</div>
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<a name="4670255"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670255">Here\'s two songs off the top of my head that work for me:<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6A-Cwfjl8">wrong way/one way</a> by RVIVR<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V53mqDM701Q">Live at the Plantation</a> by Murs<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/61972" target="_self">General Malaise</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670255" target="_self">10:44 AM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670263"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670263">Despite being a gospel singer, Johnnie Frierson’s <a href="https://youtu.be/eALEn9wCtPA">Miracles</a> is a pretty awesome song that’s been reframed as a humanist anthem (by this humanist). It encourages me, despite all the chaos and seeming absurdity of everything around us, that humans do AMAZING things, even if they don’t seem novel or amazing<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/56405" target="_self">furnace.heart</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670263" target="_self">11:06 AM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670266"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670266"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Imf0_mpQgA">Floating</a> by Jape<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjRPk4E6Eg">Mar (Lo Que Siento)</a> by Bomba Estério<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/95470" target="_self">melissasaurus</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670266" target="_self">11:17 AM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670294"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670294"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blBC9Vo904">The Staple Singers</a> always make me feel like the world could be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3vgBzgYn4">a good place</a> after all.<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/253420" target="_self">shapes that haunt the dusk</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670294" target="_self">12:37 PM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670305"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670305"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj0sXKPgbQo">Thank You</a> - Bombadil<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zYOKFjpm9s">Do You Realize</a> - The Flaming Lips<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4LF7vx9oSk">Family and Genus</a> - Shakey Graves<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpjsOJD8i_Q">Joyful Girl</a> - Ani Difranco<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/181156" target="_self">BeHereNow</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670305" target="_self">1:16 PM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670332"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670332">Nothing has helped me as much as meditating every day. I found the Headspace app very supportive of my getting started with it.<br>
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Also check out Peter Mulvey\'s song Vlad the Astrophysicist<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/168347" target="_self">spindrifter</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670332" target="_self">3:17 PM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670335"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670335">For some reason I just thought of Us3\'s Hand on the Torch album.<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/60264" target="_self">RobotVoodooPower</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670335" target="_self">3:25 PM</a> on July 6
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<a name="4670366"></a><div class="comments" id="c4670366"><a href="https://youtu.be/_zu53yAoTJE">Get Out Of Your Own Way</a> by U2<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/kWaFVvVoj4o">Bucket</a> by Kings Of Leon<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/eY-7q42UZR0">Impossible Germany</a> by Wilco<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/IM6vIURo5OI">Remember Rockefeller At Attica</a> by Charles Mingus<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/FgBrPQCSdW4">Hang Up Your Hang Ups</a> by Herbie Hancock<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/s6fPN5aQVDI">Sir Duke</a> by Stevie Wonder<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/1mhL5ynXzB0">Paisley Park</a> by Prince<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/VqlaLXAoJN0">Learn How To Fall</a> by Paul Simon<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/Qa98AhEVAZQ">Making Flippy Floppy</a> by Talking Heads<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/X463j6US4l0">Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future</a> by Mike Doughty<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/EHH-YRjy7m0">Sure Looks Good To Me</a> by Alicia Keys<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/7-vTkkCRkwY">Magpie To The Morning</a> by Neko Case<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/WBTzaTFzUaY">Just Like Water</a> by Denizen Kane<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/XwT2wD2eoRs">Dear Friends</a> by Elbow<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/guLtyvR9mi0">Glad Man Singing</a> by Iron and Wine<br><span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/14858" target="_self">eustacescrubb</a> at <a href="/324072/Music-and-more-to-reframe-your-perspective-to#4670366" target="_self">5:22 PM</a> on July 6
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