Struggling with the winter blues? Mental health issues can often seem unmanageable and all-consuming particularly during the winter months, but there are many ways to ease the burden.
Music is one of the biggest factors in helping people reduce stress, anxiety and can also help in many cases of depression.Music has been shown to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, as well as decreasing your heart rate and blood pressure. It can provide anxiety relief when you’re in a stressful situation, and it can also decrease long-term anxiety if you listen to music consistently – a study found that students who listened to classical music every day for two months had significantly lower levels of anxiety.
To distract yourself from a stressful situation, listen to songs that have a different message to whatever is stressing you. This will act as an escape mechanism and hopefully shift you into a different state of mind. If you’re in public, try using noise-cancelling headphones to help you focus on the music.
When we don’t have the words to explain our feelings, song lyrics can help us understand what we’re going through. Music therapists sometimes use a technique called ‘lyric analysis’, which you can try for yourself by following these steps:
- Listen to a song and look at the lyrics to follow along
- Pick out your favourite words and phrases
- Listen to the song again, thinking about what those particular lyrics mean to you
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I'm in my 40's now but I still love a bit of drum 'n' bass.
There was an artist who openly showed he had ADHD but instead of trying to cover this up he took this a positive and used this in a big part of forming his musical career.
Unfortunately 'Stormin MC' real name - Shaun Lewis, sadly passed away in 2018 with a form of skin cancer. RIP Stormin 🙏🏽
I have copied his famous serum here so you can play this loud and relieve some stress! Bussss It!!!!
Have fun & keep smiling people 💚