Match Music to your Mood or Change your Mood with Music

So there are websites that do what my girlfriends and I did when we were teenagers!

We used to put sad, romantic music on when we were feeling heartbroken, or romantically frustrated, and it would make us feel even sadder and we'd wallow on basement couches crying.

In those days, we'd have to get up every 3 minutes to change the record.

Now, you can make a playlist on your iPod, or media player and listen to hours of music to match any mood. Or, you can get someone else to do it for you.

There are websites that will play music for you based not only on artists or genres, but also on moods. Here's an article that reviews 5 of them. You can choose from calm, energetic, dark, or positive on one, and another site suggests aggressive and melancholic music among their choices.

You can find places online that play relaxing music for you to help you meditate or fall asleep. When you're feeling stressed-out, you can calm down by listening to this calming music.

So, if you're feeling a bit sluggish, you can ask to be energized by a song? If you're feeling wimpy, you can ask for something aggressive to empower you?

Will this kind of musical empathy work for you? Can you change the way you're feeling by playing a song?