Music and Self-Awareness: A Relationship or Not?

An educator's work is gratifying but highly stressful. Stress arises from external factors such as school, accrediting agencies, students, and parents, as well as internal factors like the teacher's own skills, beliefs, and emotions. The phrase 'to catch stress' is used metaphorically in this chapter as it refers to an individual reaction to a situation that has a negative impact on the educator's wellbeing, just like catching a disease has a negative impact on a person's health. Working with people of different ages and personalities creates a variety of stressful situations that can negatively impact the ability of educators to do their job effectively. Stress might lead to job dissatisfaction and the desire to quit. Teachers' stress also impacts students, since educators may become less concerned about students' learning and put less effort into teaching when under stress. While the external causes of stress cannot be eliminated, educators can use techniques that reduce internal stress. This chapter offers a list of practical recommendations that might help educators manage their emotional reactions to stressful situations.

Honing Self-Awareness of Faculty and Future Business Leaders: Emotions Connected With Teaching and Learning

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“…Even simple melodies can enter the mind and lyrics can be internalized as a mantra (Moran, 2018). Listening to music requires people to slow down and shift to a more calming and peaceful mood (Navarro, 2015).…”

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Catch and Release: Tools for Dealing with Teachers’ Stress

Bauman¹

2023

“…When a person listens to music, their cognitive ability to attend to a task is enhanced with resolve to achieve something, without altering the perception of the challenge at hand (Priest & Karageorghis, 2008). Thus, a music listener is more inclined to focus and see the task through more effectively and efficiently than without the presence of appropriate music stimuli, such as: upbeat and fast music for exercise, soft and calming music for relaxation, and simple classical orchestral pieces for cognitive tasks (Navarro, 2015).…”

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“…Self-awareness can be achieved through role-playing and simulations (Krueger et al, 2017), which offers participants the opportunity to see different positions and to consider opposing views safely (Likierman, 2020). Exercises that focus on developing self-awareaness, such as listening to music (Navarro, 2015), can offer different viewpoints (Likierman, 2020) and assist with exercising good judgment. Music affects the listener's brain by stimulating hormone production, specifically in the limbic system (e.g., the amygdala), which results in the maintenance or shift to a more positive affective state, resulting in improved emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions (Navarro, 2015).…”

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The Role of Physiology, Affect, Behavior and Cognition in Leader Character Activation: A Music Intervention

Ellis

2023

JCLD

We build on the theoretical model proposed by Crossan et al. (2021) to examine leader character activation, through the use of music, as a foundational area for leader character development. Our findings reveal that music influences all of the physiology, affect, behavior, cognitive (PABC) systems to more and less degrees. As well, music activates all dimensions of character, with different dimensions of character varying in their reliance on the PABC systems. Our empirical examination underscores the importance of examining activation as an initial step in development, yielding insights into the holistic role of the PABC systems in character development. Although all four systems are implicated, this study points to the need to understand how various dimensions of leader character rely differentially on the PABCs, which provides important insight into how leader character development can be tailored. Finally, the study verifies the important role of music therapy in the activation and subsequent development of leader character and paves the way for other innovative approaches that move beyond the cognitive and behavioral focus in leadership development to embrace physiology and affect as well.

“…Further, listening to music affects an individual emotionally (Hunter & Schellenberg, 2010;Salimpoor et al, 2009). Transcendence (e.g., optimism) and temperance (e.g., calmness) often come as a result of the awareness brought to the affective system when listening to inspiring or relaxing songs, respectively (Navarro, 2015). The listener's emotional state is improved and physiological incoherence (i.e., heart rate variability and blood pressure) is reduced (Karageorghis & Priest, 2012).…”

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Towards a Model of Leader Character Development: Insights From Anatomy and Music Therapy

Ellis

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

2021

Leader character has emerged as a critical foundation for leadership. In spite of the view that leader character can be developed, there has been limited holistic attention to what it takes to develop character. Character requires conscious development, and that conscious development not only requires an understanding of what character is, but how the anatomy of character enables and inhibits character development and expression. By anatomy, we refer to the four underlying anatomical systems—physiology, affect, behavior, and cognition (PABC)—that function independently, and in an interrelated manner, to support the development of character. For illustration, we offer the practice of listening to music as a means to develop character, highlighting the links between the PABC systems and character development.