is guitar your "soul food"?

Hi guys,

Had a couple of upsetting days and not surprisingly realized again while how restorative sitting down and playing the guitar was. Of course its not like a light switch but after a few songs the stressful thoughts start melting away especially if I'm playing something challenging. Its funny whenever I’m down my wife tells me to go play guitar so she can see the positive impact it has on me.

How about you guys?

[mr. beaumont]

Oh definitely. Keeps me sane.

[mattwood]

One of the best self soothing mechanisms I use. That and hitting golf balls.

[Bluesra]

Guitar or bike have turned my days around ever since I was a kid.

[Bob from Brooklyn]

I refer to it as my comfort food.

[llew]

For sure...

[generalliamsayn]

1) playing guitar
2) a long walk
3) writing fiction
4) a good workout
5) SCUBA diving

...these are the 5 things in life that can get me to a real 'zen state' (...skiing used to be on there till I wrecked my knee!).

[jpd]

No doubt. Therapy comes in many ways...ours is a wood box with strings

[Mark Stone]

Definitely. Especially the quiet elegance of my old Yairi classical.

[emtsteve]

Yep, absolutely!

[rmp]

yes, it's my safe room that doesn't need a specific room.

[Rev Roy]

One of the main reasons I took up playing was the positive effect it has on me physically, emotionally and spiritually.

[s2y]

I'm a divorced overnight hospital pharmacist. Guitar is one of the things keeps life worth living.

[The Bard Rocks]

it is hard to be unhappy when you are playing music. Even the blues make me happy.

[raysachs]

Absolutely - it’s one of the few things I do these days that gets me out of my head and plants my butt firmly in the MOMENT. Playing something hard doesn’t matter to me, just playing something that requires a commitment of mind and body, which is most things…

-Ray