Why is music good for your emotional health and wellbeing?
Music is a powerful thing – it stimulates the body’s natural feel-good chemicals (endorphins, oxytocin), helping to energise our mood, manage stress levels, express our feelings, increase our memory and reduce our pain levels.
How to complete this challenge?
We have put together a playlist of some of our favourite feel-good tunes.
There’s a theory that listening to…
- Blues and Reggae – makes you feel less nervous.
- Rock and Punk – gives you an energy boost.
- Classical music – calms you and increases your brain power.
- Heavy Metal – helps with low self-esteem, but is not good if you’re feeling stressed out.
- Country music – is more likely to make you feel sad.
- Songs from musicals – helps you feel inspired.
Try listening to all different types of music to see which helps you when your feeling stressed, anxious or low.
The below YouTube music videos may help in moments when you need a boost to stay positive:
Page updated on February 25th, 2026 at 04:13pm