When you hear the perfect song at the right time, it can make you feel calm, help with sad feelings you can’t even see, and give your emotions a boost.

It’s fun to imagine Music as a meal for our insides. However, there are a few things to keep in our mind:

• Our bodies need real food: Our bodies need vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients from food to grow and stay strong. Music is wonderful and can make us feel good, but it doesn’t give us the same kind of energy or building blocks that food does.
• Music affects our feelings: Music can definitely affect how we feel. It can make us happy, sad, excited, or calm. It’s like it feeds our emotions in a way.
• “Eating” Music is a metaphor: When we say “eat a Yummy meal of Music,” we’re using a metaphor. A metaphor is when we use a word or phrase to describe something else, like saying “the sun is a giant ball of fire”. It’s not literally true, but it helps us understand something better.

But what kind of Music is like “healthy” or “Yummy” for our feelings?

That’s a tricky question! It’s different for everyone, depending on how we’re feeling right now.