If you are a music lover then you probably already know how music can have many positive effects on our mood, behavior, and more. If you doubt this, just pop on one of your favorite records and see if you feel any different.
Some of the benefits of listening to music as listed on liveforlivemusic.com are:
- Decreases Stress
- Increases Happiness
- Improves Sleep
- Strengthens Memory
- Improves Athletic Performance
One of the other benefits is reducing anxiety which we all have at times in our life. There was a recent discovery by neruoscientists that one specific song in particular has been shown to reduce anxiety by up to 65%. To find out what this song is and and how it works, check out the article from Collective Evolution:
“Neuroscientists Discover A Song That Reduces Anxiety By 65 Percent (Listen)
Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry, and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE, as did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addressed the disorder in 1926.
However, jump to the present and we’re seeing a significant uptick — especially with youth.
Pharmaceutical drugs tend to be the classic treatment for treating anxiety (as well as the biggest money maker). Cognitive therapy is a common approach as well, while those with a holistic bent often turn to meditation, yoga, massage, and other relaxation techniques. Music therapy has also been used with some success. But now, neuroscientists in the U.K. have zeroed in on a single song that results in a dramatic 65% reduction in overall anxiety.
Anxiety and Generation Y
A 2013 survey found that 57% of American female university students reported episodes of “overwhelming anxiety.” And in the United Kingdom, the charity YouthNet discovered that a third of young women — and one in ten young men — suffer from panic attacks.
Marjorie Wallace, CEO of the charity Sane, believes that generation Y (those born in the 1980s and 1990s) is the age of desperation. “Growing up has always been difficult, but this sense of desperation? That’s new,” she says.
Writes Rachael Dove in “Anxiety: the epidemic sweeping through Generation Y“:
So, what’s going on? The rise of technology, overly-protective parenting and “exam-factory” schooling are among the reasons psychologists suggest for our generational angst. Another, brought up on multiple occasions by my peers and by psychologists I spoke to, is the luxury (as ungrateful as it sounds) of too much choice.
Pieter Kruger, a London-based psychologist, says research indicates that people who feel they don’t have a choice are actually more resilient — mainly because they can blame life or others if they make a wrong decision. However, if you have a range of choices, you have no one to blame but yourself. “We become much more obsessive because we want to make the right decision every time,” he says.
On her blog, We Are All Mad Here, writer Claire Eastham agrees: “I spend a lot of time worrying about what I am going to do with my life. Previous generations had choice taken out of their hands. If you are told what to do it takes the pressure away.”
In our modern era, decision making can trigger a type of paralysis. Often, we will obsessively research the many different options for, say, a pair of shoes. Eventually, information overload will kick in and shut the whole shopping venture down, leaving us exhausted and guilty for being crippled by such a seemingly simple task.”
The creation of anti-stress music and music therapy is not new. In fact, the music of Steve Halpern, one of the pioneers of his kind of music, dates back to the late seventies. A couple of his most popular albums are “Chakra Suite” and “Music for Sound Healing.”
One of the most recent discoveries of music for relaxation was done in the UK and they found one song that reduced anxiety and stress by 65%. To find out what more about that song you can finish reading the article on the Collective Evolution website.
You may also listen to the song in the video below:
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