Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Music Can Rewire Your Mood in Minutes

13 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Short conversational excerpt from the YouTube video "Music Can Rewire Your Mood in Minutes" (Susan Drumm). A speaker recounts how Frank Sinatra quickly transforms their mother’s mood; Susan Drumm explains that music helps reconnect neural pathways, likening it to a "fertilizer" that enables the brain to rewire. Drumm describes using chosen music to rapidly shift her own mood toward a desired self-image and to interrupt negative rumination (her phrase: "the eight lane highway to hell").

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That's what happens with my mom. I mean, you put Frank Sinatra on, and she's like a different person than 10 minutes earlier. It's, like, unbelievable. It's the cure.
It's amazing. And so if music can do that, what it's doing is allowing these neural pathways to reconnect the way they need to connect. It's. It's. I like to say it's like a fertilizer for making that happen. So I started experimenting with something that was. That I couldn't seem to get off of a trigger. And I experimented with that. And as soon as I put the music on that I wanted. That represented who I wanted to be, right? That vision of who I wanted to be, my mood was shifted like that. And the more I practiced it, the more I could sort of interrupt when I felt myself going down what I call the eight lane highway to hell.