So, we've talked about the role of Music in evoking or shifting states of happiness and sadness. There are also interesting data that support the use of music for shifting, one out of a state of heightened anxiety. And I find this especially interesting because my laboratory for a long time, has worked on behavioral interventions to Use

anxiety things like the physiological side, which if you're not familiar with, you can put physiological sigh in my last name into YouTube and there's a demonstration of that. It's a breathing technique of to inhale, through the nose and a long.

Exhale through the mouth 2 lungs, empty that at this point in time, we understand

to be the fastest and most effective way to reduce ones levels of anxiety in real time. So it's to inhale through the nose long to lungs empty, exhale, through the mouth. That's the physiological sigh earlier

we talked about Out the fact that one of the main ways in which listening to music shifts,

heart rate and increases heart rate, variability

and thereby positively shifts, a

number of different Health metrics is through shifts in breathing. So I justify that briefing yet about the physiological side as within the general context of what we're talking about today

in any event. There are data that have explored whether or not specific musical stimuli can be used to significantly reduce anxiety in particular one published out of the University of Pennsylvania and I will provide a link to the study in the show. No captions, which shows that people that listen to a particular song

that I'll describe in a moment

experience up to 65 percent, reductions in their anxiety. And that's a significant reduction in anxiety and I should point out that 65%. Auction in anxiety. In this case was accomplished with just three minutes of listening to this one particular song and get this. That particular song was as effective in reducing anxiety as one

of the most commonly prescribed benzodiazepines. So

what is this? Magical anxiety reducing song. The title of the song is weightless

by Marconi Union. I

hadn't heard of the song prior to researching this episode, I did indeed. Look up the song on YouTube and listen into the song, I will provide a link to the song in the show. No captions. I confessed

that it is a very relaxing song. I also confess that I was not experiencing anxiety when I listened

to the song but it was

successful in reducing my level of overall autonomic arousal. I found myself more relaxed etcetera. Now, of course, what I'm describing in terms of my own experience is not a peer-reviewed study. It's what I would call an Ikeda meaning. I'm just describing my experience. But again,

there are peer-reviewed studies. Luring

how this particular song shifts ones, autonomic State and I think this 3 minutes of listening

to this one song should at least be

Tried by anyone. That's trying to reduce their anxiety Because

unless you're listening to the song and some way that I'm not aware of like excessively

loud or something of that sort. I can't imagine how listening to the song. Would be detrimental in any way and if you are anything like the subjects in the study that they explored, it could very well be beneficial and help you reduce your anxiety. It's also something that you could keep queued

up in your phone or on any Vice such that. If you think you may experience anxiety, you just

put your headphones in and listen to it.

You might be wondering whether or not Marconi. Unions weightless is only three minutes long. Well, I don't know the answer to that because when you go on YouTube, what you'll see is that clearly a number of people are benefiting from listening to the song to reduce their anxiety or at least that a number of people have listened to this song Because if you put Marconi Union weightless into the search function on YouTube, what you'll quickly discover is that the top video has get this 47. In views, and it's ten

hours long.