Skip the pop and jazz and head for the classical.
Via Richard Wiseman’s excellent book 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute:
Sky Chafin at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues at other universities examined which music best reduces blood pressure after a stressful event.7 Their work involved making people anxious by having them count down aloud from 2,397 in sets of 13, i.e., 2397, 2384, et cetera. To make matters worse, every thirty seconds the experimenter harassed the participants with negative feedback (âCome on, get a move onâ) and urged them to speed up. Afterward, some of the participants were left alone to recover in silence, while others were played either classical music (Pachelbelâs Canon and Vivaldiâs Four Seasons: Spring, movement 1), jazz (including âFlamenco Sketchesâ by Davis), or pop music (Sarah McLachlanâs âAngelâ and the Dave Matthews Bandâs âCrash into Meâ). Blood pressure readings revealed that listening to pop or jazz music had the same restorative effect as total silence. In contrast, those who listened to Pachelbel and Vivaldi relaxed much more quickly, and so their blood pressure dropped back to the normal level in far less time.
TheRedArchive is an archive of Red Pill content, including various subreddits and blogs. This post has been archived from the blog bakadesuyo.
Title | What type of music is the most relaxing? |
---|---|
Author | Eric Barker |
Date | February 28, 2012 7:36 PM UTC (12 years ago) |
Blog | bakadesuyo |
Archive Link |
https://theredarchive.com/blog/bakadesuyo/what-type-of-music-is-the-most-relaxing.14595 https://theredarchive.com/blog/14595 |
Original Link | https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/02/what-type-of-music-is-the-most-relaxing/ |
© TheRedArchive 2024. All rights reserved.
created by /u/dream-hunter