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It can be difficult to find a job that meets all your needs. Competitive, skilled, positive, and mindful are all essential qualities. You can’t be optimistic or mindful when you are under pressure to find the right job.

Your performance is directly related to how well you take care of your mental health. One can lose their very self in the process. It is important to go back to the blackboard every once in awhile to find yourself in this cycle.

Music can help you get back to yourself. Music can be a great tool for balancing stress and showing your best self. Music can awaken you from your deep sleep. I will be discussing how music can help improve your mental health.

Music can help you get back to the Present

Humans spend a lot of time worrying about the future and past rather than the present. When the default mode network, a subsystem in the brain, is active, this happens. It can lead to anxious thoughts and stress, but evolutionarily it has many benefits. To learn from past mistakes, we spend a lot of time reflecting on them and to plan for the future. To engage with reality, music forces us to be present-centered.

Music can help you deal with your past

Because of another evolutionary adaptation, negativity bias, a lot of our ruminating focuses on the past and future. It is both mentally and emotionally taxing. According to psychologist Daniel T Gilbert (author of Stumbling on Happiness), mind-wandering was closely associated with unhappiness in a Harvard study. Matthew Killingsworth, his co-author, stated that “a human mind can wander, and a wandering mindset is unhappiness.” Music activates the default mode network and also primes the brain to feel empathy. Empathy can help you overcome your limitations.

Music during emotional trauma

You might have experienced rejections after rejections. Emotional trauma could be a possibility. The brain produces a powerful cocktail of neurochemicals that can help us cope with the emotional trauma. After the song ends, and the fake-trauma as well, our brains are left with all the neurochemicals. It is like a warm, fuzzy opiate bath for the brain. No prescriptions!

Music during times of regret

Music can also help us get through difficult emotional times. There has been a time when we have sat down and felt self-pity, listening to Nick Drake’s sad musi-tragedies. It’s common to reach for the song that lifts us up, but it’s not uncommon to find ourselves drawn to dark, dramatic music when we feel down. When we are already feeling very shaky, why would we do this to ourselves? Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher, put it perfectly: “The inexpressible depth and beauty of music, so simple to understand but so inexplicable is because it reproduces all of the emotions of our innermost being but completely without reality and distant from its pain.”

There are no magic formulas that will explain how you feel during an interview. These are not foolproof strategies that will make you an instant success. It isn’t easy, I know. Some strategies can help boost brain activity and improve metal health. These strategies can be used to improve our behavior or monitor it.

Here are 10 ways to get rid of your interview nerves.

Prepare for common questions by doing research

Research the company, their interview process, and the types of questions they like to ask. Use sites such as Glassdoor to research. It is a best practice answering these questions as well as other interview questions such “Tell us about yourself” or “Tell us about a time when. The key to answering these questions is not to memorize them.

Prepare for worst case Scenario

You prepare for the worst case scenario in his 1948 book “How to Stop Worrying And Start Living.” This strategy is based on an example from Willis Carrier who was the founder of modern air-conditioning.

Dry run

Commute to your interview location one week prior to your scheduled time. This will allow you to get to know the route well and plan your travel time accordingly.

Take a snack on the way!

Reducing your caffeine intake by half on the day of your interview in order to avoid jitters. She also suggests eating natural beta-blockers such as bananas, almonds and oatmeal. These foods can lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety, and slow down your heart rate.

Meditate Consciously

You don’t need to be a yogi in order to benefit from meditation before an important interview. Meditation can be as easy as closing your eyes and taking slow deep breaths. Then, visualize yourself crushing the interview.

Listen to Music every now and then

From research, it is well documented that music releases dopamine and other happy hormones. One will reach a state of free flow with the right kind of music. So never forget to listen to the music of your liking. This will help you not only to be your best self but also it tackles the nervousness built upon before the interview.

Try a power pose

You might consider doing a power pose, which calls a ducking in the toilet before you go to interview.

You are your best friend

Although pep talks are common in locker rooms, they can be very useful just before going to a job interview. Be sure to keep your talk out of the earshots of others.

Admit you’re nervousness

It can make things worse if you are nervous about an interview.

Do not be too quick

Be interested and not just interesting. You will find it easier to navigate the discussion, as you are less likely to get lost in your own thoughts.

Music helps to be your best self in an interview