You can use music to help you unwind both physically and mentally. It helps you feel more at ease and joyful when coping with stress and worry. Knowing how music can affect our mood can help us to spot the times that we may need to throw on our headphones and withdraw from the pressures of every day life, if even for just a few minutes.
Below is a brief list of music that can help reduce anxiety.
#1 – Classical music
Studies show that music with calming tones might help those who are ill or stressed feel more at ease in their surroundings. The heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol stress hormone levels can all be lowered by listening to classical and other calming music.
Additionally, listening to classical music causes an increase in serotonin naturally, which reduces anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. However, classical music is by no means the only genre that has a beneficial impact on our health. The music we enjoy varies from person to person and is influenced by a variety of factors, including our individual life experiences.
Our favorite musical genres are those that help us feel less anxious. It does no purpose to make oneself listen to classical music when you detest it. That would not be unwinding at all.
Only music that uplifts your mood genuinely aids in lowering stress or anxiety.
#2 – Sound therapy
Sound healing is another sort of music that can be used to calm the mind and body by utilizing the healing properties of music.
This is how it functions – Sound healing uses the healing powers of sound vibrations (alternative: uses sound vibrations to calm your body and mind). Consider singing bowls, gongs, monks chanting or tuning forks. When these are activated, vibrations are produced that have a strong impact on the body and mind.
Liken it to throwing a stone into the ocean. Small waves immediately begin to propagate from the point where the stone originally made contact with the water. Your body is the water that the waves go through, and the music vibrations are the waves.
Dr. Richard Gerber describes how music frequencies might assist in rebalancing a body’s energy that has become out of harmony as a result of stress or anxiety in his book Vibrational Medicine. Low vibrations of fear can be transformed by sound therapy into high frequencies of confidence and peace.
#3 – Binaural beats
Another sort of music that might lessen tension and anxiety is binaural beats. However, not everyone is aware of its power (alternatively known as the power of binaural beats). By playing two sounds with somewhat different frequencies, binaural beats are produced. Your brain perceives these as a single tone even though one tone is somewhat higher or lower than the other tone.
Its singular tone is what distinguishes it. Your brain, which has many various vibrational frequencies, gets used to that single tone. As a result, the beats inspire a particular mental state, such as intense concentration or deep relaxation:
- Delta (0 – 4 hertz) – deep sleeping and healing
Thèta (4 – 8 hertz) – useful in meditation and deep relaxation
Alfa (8 – 14 hertz) – reduced anxiety and stress, concentration
Bèta (14 – 30 hertz) – increases focus, clarity of thought and energy
Gamma (30 – 100 hertz) – hightens awareness and betters memory
Use headphones or earphones so your left ear hears a different tone from your right ear for binaural beats to function.
#4 – Rain sounds (Sound masking)
Have you ever wondered why hearing the sound of rain is so calming to everyone? It turns out that their calming effect has a scientific basis:
Playing rain sounds as you sleep is one example of “sound masking.” They aid in blocking out other sounds like traffic, nearby neighbors, or household disturbances that might be keeping you awake. Rain sounds produce a more tranquil auditory environment for sleep by generating a constant, moderate background noise.
Brain activity has been shown to be affected by rain noises. Theta brain waves, which are linked to profound relaxation and the beginnings of sleep, can rise as a result of being exposed to rain noises. This change in brain activity may make it simpler for you to fall asleep peacefully.
We hope that the about advice has enabled you to see how the above types of music for releving anxiety and feelings of stress.
If you are experiening overwhelming feelings of anxiety, please contact and speak to a professional.
