You might be thinking as to how music can be used effectively for stress management. There are few basic principles that you should understand so as to tailor your favorite music for the purpose of stress management.
1. You should use your favorite category of music and in case you dont like Mozart or classical music then dont use it. Good and quality music can be found in most genre of music.
2. You should choose music that has pleasant associations for you or music that brings you cheerful memories.
3. If you want to try new music, then go for instrumental music tends that are more stress relieving than the music having lyrics because this doesnt requires you t o think.
4. You should choose music that is slow and has regular pulse or beat. This is because researchers discovered that music with the tempo of healthy resting heartbeat will synchronize your own breathing and heart beat to it thereby slowing down your racing body rhythms.
5. Racing thoughts can often lead to anxious and stressed out feelings and for this you should use rhythms of slow music so as to slow down your body and thoughts.
Music is even used for surgery whereby...