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Do You Ever Find Yourself Unable to Listen To Your System?

I was unsure how to pose this question.

I don't mean in a any technical capacity, as in, your system for some reason is not sounding good and therefore you can't stand to listen to it or some component is not functioning correctly.

I mean in the sense that your having some issues in life perhaps that is affecting you emotionally or mentally and you are unable to enjoy your system.

For me there is some personal issues that has been affecting me and my family for the past couple of years and there are times I just am not able to sit down and enjoy the rig.

For the past month I have been unable to bring myself to listen to anything. Heck, even hardly been on this forum.

I know different people deal with issue's in different ways. Some might completely immerse themselves in their system to forget about the world for a little bit.

I mean that would make sense. Music is not just enjoyable but therapeutic. 

I should actually be using my system even more in these type of times but I usually just seem to lose interest in things I like when I am a bit mentally disturbed due to some issue going on.

So I am just curious, do you any of completely turn away from your system or the opposite, immerse yourself even more?

Thnx

Jay
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earthtodan
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For me, music tends to increase the emotional pain. When my gf left me a decade or so ago, I surrounded myself w/ music (which did no good, of course--only allowed me to exercise my self-indulgence).  
I had an experience like that. My grief had a soundtrack in the form of a playlist loosely based on this album, which I think allowed me to overindulge and prolong the pain. For a long time the first notes would bring me right back into that headspace, and I so put it away for a while.

Then I decided to revisit it, expand the playlist, and now it's just music that I enjoy again. 

But more to the point of the OP, if you are going through a tough period, I think it is important to be in the right headspace to enjoy your system, and not force it. The music you listen to will become entwined with whatever is happening in your life at the same time. As was pointed out earlier, engaged listening is a form of work; budget your energy accordingly. 
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