Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song Reduces Anxiety by up to 65 Percent

[Binkie The Clown]

http://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-says-listening-to-this-one-song-reduces-anxiety-by-up-to-65-percent.html

Everyone knows they need to manage their stress. When things get difficult at work, school, or in your personal life, you can use as many tips, tricks, and techniques as you can get to calm your nerves.

So here's a science-backed one: make a playlist of the 10 songs found to be the most relaxing on earth.

Sound therapies have long been popular as a way of relaxing and restoring one's health. For centuries, indigenous cultures have used music to enhance well-being and improve health conditions.

Now, neuroscientists out of the UK have specified which tunes give you the most bang for your musical buck.

More at the link.

And the winner is:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Wait, isn't that the first side of "Dark Side of the Moon"?

I only listened to the first ten seconds.

I'm going with Erik Satie, Gymnopedie.

Some:

More:

[mainer]

2. So would I. Or Bach Prelude #!

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[jmowreader]

15. Sounds more like Ummagumma than Dark Side

[WiffenPoof]

16. This song has haunted me...

...ever since I first heard it performed by Blood, Sweat and Tears. Still my favorite version. It's funny how something so simple can bring about such emotion.

[Orrex]

3. Mmm... Macaroni Onion.

[spiderpig]

5. Short but sweet - Zdenek Fibich

[Laffy Kat]

6. What's with the drones?

Those things worried me. Relax fail.

[CBGLuthier]

7. Many of those work well, this is my go to float away

[nolabear]

9. I dunno. I thought it kind of droned on.

[skypilot]

10. Same here.

I think I felt more relaxed the moment I turned if off. As someone (I can't remember who) once said about music: It should be preferable to silence.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Not even ONE piece for solo shakuhachi, or koto and shakuhachi ?

Relaxation fail.

[PassingFair]

17. Ha!

Was pretty sure this was gonna be a Rick Roll!

[Taitertots]

18. This should have been a rick roll n/t