In an article for Your Tango, Rebecca Jane Stokes shares a little about her own experience with panic and anxiety to create context for sharing the song “Weightless,” which was developed by researchers at MindLab in the UK and Marconi Union to reduce stress and anxiety. Apparently it’s been so effective that they’ve warned against listening to it while driving. Here’s an excerpt from Rebecca’s article and the video for the song at the heart of it. What do you think?
I manage my anxiety well, but I still get panic attacks and I still have anxious days. That just comes with the territory.
That’s why, when I read that researchers have literally created A SONG that has reduced anxiety by 67% in everyone who listened to it, I basically went running for my headphones.
Researchers at MindLab in the UK teamed up with Marconi Union to try and create a song that was designed to soothe and reduce stress.
The musicians teamed up with sound therapists to create music that could lower the heart rate, blood pressure, and actual cortisol (the hormone that causes stress) levels of the people listening to it.
The end result is an 8-minute track called “Weightless” that the neuroscientists in charge of the program say is so effective that you SHOULD NOT listen to it while you drive.