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A simple “at-home” experiment reveals that most people cannot simultaneously follow the details of a musical composition and read at the same time. This reality makes it clear that certain parts of the mind are “shut off” when others are invoked. On the basis of this fact, his chapter explores a single question related to the effects of listening to music: if one can almost immediately move between parts of one’s brain, and between radically different capacities of cognition simply by deciding to listen in a certain way to a composition, and if the efficacy of using music as a therapeutic tool has been established in several areas, is it also possible that close listening to music can offer some kind of relief in dealing with obsessive states and therefore increase the chances of what we are calling human flourishing? The author proposes that a certain kind of directed musical listening could interrupt the patterns of obsessive thought at the core of many mental disorders.