REDUCE ANXIETY BY 65% WITH 1 SONG

Back in June of this year I posted about a musical event that was broadcasted on ABC Classic 2 simply titled "Sleep" - an 8hr musical piece designed specifically to put you to sleep.

This week I came across an article where neuroscience says that listening to this one song can reduce anxiety by up to 65%!

The highlights of the article were:

- Scientists have actually found the 10 most relaxing songs on earth - big call but let's go with it!

- A study was conducted  where participants needed to solve difficult puzzles as quickly as possible but the puzzles were deliberately made to cause great stress

- They measured brain activity and physiological states such as heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate

- The song "Weightless: by Marconi Union was the song referred to in the title.

- The song was actually made in collaboration with sound therapists

- A recent paper out of Harvard and Stanford found that health issues from job stress alone causes more deaths than Diabetes, Alzeihmer's or Influenza!

- Many participants became drowsy listening to 'Weightless" so don't pop on while driving

- The article lists the top 10 relaxing songs and the author also put together their own Spotify playlist of these songs that runs for about 50mins which is downloadable.

So if you head out for lunch in the park or walk home from work then give this playlist a go and see how you feel in the hours after it.

The full article can be found here.