Lolinda
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I am extremely sensitive to the stimulating effects of music, which are detrimental to me: the music goes on and on in my head, it is disturbing and too stimulating. I resolved my CFS/ME using a ketogenic diet, but this issue stayed. Before CFS, I enjoyed salsa, merengue and bachata dancing to the fullest...
I love music so much that I set out to search and search. I find even "relaxation music" and "chillout music" too stimulating and anything with slowest electric beats just alike... It seemed hopeless. But then I discovered that many old traditional genres of music are good for me and not stimulating. Listen to Armenian Duduk music. Do you find it any stimulating? It is great for me. And while it is sad music, the effect in me is very positive. And I find it vastly beautiful
Or listen to Turkish Sufi flute. Or to traditional Indian Bansuri flute or this Iranian artist...
I observed the following effects:
If you are highly sensitive to stimulating effects of music, this thread is for posts:
This thread shall be an unconventional one on PR: a thread for peace and love and lots of music
I love music so much that I set out to search and search. I find even "relaxation music" and "chillout music" too stimulating and anything with slowest electric beats just alike... It seemed hopeless. But then I discovered that many old traditional genres of music are good for me and not stimulating. Listen to Armenian Duduk music. Do you find it any stimulating? It is great for me. And while it is sad music, the effect in me is very positive. And I find it vastly beautiful
Or listen to Turkish Sufi flute. Or to traditional Indian Bansuri flute or this Iranian artist...I observed the following effects:
- surprisingly, exactly their calm and lightly sad nature makes me more focussed on positive and good purposes such as for example researching scientific literature to improve my health
- I do have POTS which prevents me from going out and meeting friends, let alone go to parties or dance. So this music is a welcome emotional replacement
- Playing music produces endorphins, while listening to music selected by the researchers does not (reference - see Experiment 4 in the fulltext)
- However, if researchers let people chose the music they listen to, then the reactions (thrills) in 3 out of 10 participants were suppressable by endorphin blockers (reference - these interesting details are unfortunately only presented in the fulltext)
- A valid test of endorphin release by listening to music would be in my opinion if participants bring in their own favourite pieces of music (and of course, have higher numbers of study participants)
- An entirely different path to health benefits may be the induction of a parasympathetic state, which I associate with slow music composed in minor scales such as the ones I like so much, see below. I leave it to you to find research on this. Please do post.
If you are highly sensitive to stimulating effects of music, this thread is for posts:
- links to music you find not stimulating or even beneficial
- which positive effects did you observe?
- symptoms you get from too stimulating music
- research papers on effects of music
This thread shall be an unconventional one on PR: a thread for peace and love and lots of music
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