This top song produced a greater state of relaxation than any other music tested to date

By Melanie Curtin

Everyone knows they need to manage their stress. When things get difficult at work, school, or in your personal life, you can use as many tips, tricks, and techniques as you can get to calm your nerves.

So here’s a science-backed one: make a playlist of the 10 songs found to be the most relaxing on earth.

Sound therapies have long been popular as a way of relaxing and restoring one’s health. For centuries, indigenous cultures have used music to enhance well-being and improve health conditions.

Now, neuroscientists out of the UK have specified which tunes give you the most bang for your musical buck.

The study was conducted on participants who attempted to solve difficult puzzles as quickly as possible while connected to sensors. The puzzles induced a certain level of stress, and participants listened to different songs while researchers measured brain activity as well as physiological states that included heart rate, blood pressure, and rate of breathing.

According to Dr. David Lewis-Hodgson of Mindlab International, which conducted the research, the top song produced a greater state of relaxation than any other music tested to date.

In fact, listening to that one song — “Weightless” — resulted in a striking 65 percent reduction in participants’ overall anxiety, and a 35 percent reduction in their usual physiological resting rates.

Are You Feeling Comfortable?

Warming Up The Homeless

Close the door and lock it. Bring the key, pull up a chair by the fire.
Comfy?
Now let’s look at the key you used and think about all that it
represents to you.
Warm by the fire isn’t it?
You have just locked the door on the outside world. Safe in your own
home. You can do anything you want now, within the law of course.
Friends round for dinner, watch telly, a soaking hot bath, read a good
book. The choices are pretty endless.
Sure you may argue with family, have to wash the dishes, do a bit of
ironing, pay some bills but in general things are ok.
Now think hard. Close your eyes and concentrate. You know what a
panic you get in when you lose the key for a few minutes.
What would it feel like if for some reason that key, and all it represents,
was suddenly taken away from you? Permanently.
Suddenly, almost without warning, you no longer have a door to lock.
Redundancy, fleeing from violence, thrown out, partnership breakup,
mental breakdown, the wrong decision at the wrong time.
It’s starting to look dark isn’t it?
Where do you go? Who do you ring? Oh sorry you can’t ring, you no
longer have a phone anymore. You don’t have anything anymore. You
have no idea what to do. This sort of thing only happens to drunks,
druggies and tramps don’t it?
Starting to get cold yet?
You world is collapsing around you and you are helpless.
You wander aimlessly. Dazed. You’ve heard of hostels but there not for
you are they? You have more dignity, more pride.
The night is getting darker. Maybe just curl up in a hut on Eastbourne seafront knowing the night Angel's will be with you soon. Trudy and the Warming up the homeless team will be along soon.
Feeling so low and helpless giving up on life but the night Angel's won't let you after listening to all your troubles and strife.
Theses Angel's are normal people who fill you with positivity, trust me they really care about your life.
Food, clothes, and breakfast packs they give to all the homeless about, Oh, and let's not forget the big meaningful hugs Trudy always gives out.
Some days are better, some days are worse but after the Warming up the homeless team have been your singing and thinking happy thoughts and about what your lifes really worth.
I'm now nearly totally back on my feet but still have a way to go......but whenever I see a homeless person,I think of Trudy and her Angel's and thank my lucky stars. I genuinely believe thanks to her and the Angel's I'm still here today because of them. And now I get the chance to thank them all.
So Trudy and all the Warming up the homeless team I thank you from the bottom of my heart, you really did give me the love and inspiration to make this new start.

Sy Martin

Having an especially lovely Day

I've been feeling heaps better recently due to the love of a good man and regular CBD oil.  I managed to walk to the post box today to post off our local election voting papers. 

On the way back I stopped to take some photos of the latest random flowers that appeared in our little patch this spring

From the Beginning

I have had heart failure since the late 80's

My first major crisis was in 2016. After nearly 30 years with heart failure I woke in ICU following a cardiac arrest and a coma. I had been ill with what appeared to be repeated cold like viruses and was diagnosed on arrival in hospital with multiple organ failure. No-one has been able to answer questions I have had about why I became ill so quickly and no treatment has been started.

I waiting for an appointment for a cardiologist to arrive but I won't be holding my breath as it will be 3 years since my diagnosis next month

Eighteen Stone and Rising

I was 16st when I quit smoking last year on the 18th December and I weighed myself this morning and I had gained 2 stone ...EEEEK!

I have swapped tobacco for a Medipen that looks like this and am feeling a lot better for sleeping through the night. Thankfully, Billy has been buying my CBD oil cartridges otherwise I would have to get a third job to pay for them 

Echo Scan March 4th (Monday) 2019

Posting to say that I still haven't  got to see a cardiologist since my cardiac arrest in March 2016 and a diagnosis of heart failure the same month which I have been complaining about since the mid 90's.

On March the 4th I will see a GP following the scan so still no sign of seeing a cardiologist.

Palliative Care - Latest Research

We Need To Talk about Death

See the Horizon video HERE

Interesting take on palliative care. Around the 42 minutes mark there is a piece challenging the view that in choosing palliative care we will make a trade off and limit the time we have left.

Newest research has shown that this doesn't have to be the case, When palliative care is put together in a holistic, compassionate fashion then it can have the effect of improving the prognosis for those with progressive conditions.