{"id":14999,"date":"2020-10-23T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/friday-feels-8\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:50:32","slug":"friday-feels-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/friday-feels-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Feels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday Feels<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113376\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/my-friday-face-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Music can be incredibly powerful.\u00a0 It can be a gateway to feeling connected with our minds and bodies and the lyrics in a song can allow us to feel validated, heard, connected, uplifted, reinforced, moved, and motivated, to name a few.\u00a0 Some songs allow us to sit with an emotion so that we can process it further and make plans to address it, while others help us to sustain positive emotions and assist us in shifting our mood and relieving stress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/listening-to-music-while-sitting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-113378\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/listening-to-music-while-sitting-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Very Well Mind.com<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhile music therapy is an important discipline, you can also achieve many benefits from music on your own. You may have already been doing this since you were a teenager, but it&#8217;s a great idea to keep incorporating music into your daily life as you age through the life cycle, as we now know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Music can be used in daily life for relaxation, to gain energy when feeling drained, for catharsis when\u00a0dealing with emotional stress, and in other ways as well.5 Most of us know from experience that music can dissolve the stress of a long drive, keep us motivated to exercise, and take us right back to positive experiences in our past, which can be a happiness booster and a stress reliever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-113379 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/colorful-music-notes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"220\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>Happy- Pharrell Williams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6Sxv-sUYtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a song that you find inspiring or motivational? Email us an appropriate song at <a href=\"mailto:counseling@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>counseling@hvcc.edu<\/strong><\/a> and you may see your song posted in the chronicle being shared with the campus community, connecting us one beat at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-113381\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/music-is-what-feelings-sound-like-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We hope you enjoy these weekly installments of Friday Feels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Counseling and Wellness Services<br \/>\nCampus Center Room 270<br \/>\n(518) 629-7320<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:counseling@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">counseling@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:50:32 +0000 by\u00a0k.weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Friday Feels Music can be incredibly powerful.\u00a0 It can be a gateway to feeling connected with our minds and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}