Resonant Recall: A Theoretical Framework for Personalized, Music-Anchored Affective Persistence

This document sets out a theoretical framework — not a finding — for a proposed therapeutic approach in which a person's own deeply meaningful music serves as the substrate for an auditory intervention intended to extend the positive affective state that music evokes beyond the listening session itself. The framework is offered before data collection, so the hypotheses can be stated cleanly, the mechanisms ranked by existing evidence, and the open questions made explicit. Its central commitment is individualization: rather than assigning a fixed “correct” frequency, the approach treats each person's resonant material as unique and empirically discoverable. It separates an interpretive philosophical layer from a narrower testable layer, and it names its own weakest assumptions rather than concealing them. Disclaimer: Pre-empirical conceptual framework. No clinical claims; not medical advice.