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Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever

Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay.

Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm.

Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.”

The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being Rex advised against listening to it while driving.

(via sarahwants2travel)

What Do I Do (Acoustic Piano Version)
Nyoy Volante & Mannos

What would you do if I told you that
All that I do is think of what we had
What would you do if I’m not the friend I used to be
Well, at least, not to me

‘Cause I can’t get over all the times you stay
Get crazy, jealous every time you’re away
Now I’m someone different from the one that you knew
Had nothing to feel for you, to feel for you

Chorus:
What do I do
I keep calling out your name
What do I do
I got no one else to blame
What do I do
Every time I hold your hand, it’s not the same
What do I do
I think I fell in love with you

What can I do, what can I say
Everything keeps changing every night, every day
Every word so diff’rent, every touch so real
Every glance and every look reveals the way I feel

No, it’s never ever gonna be the same
When we hug for warmth from the cold of the rain
Yet I’m not gonna move on, not gonna change
Though I find it hard to say, baby

Bridge:
I don’t know what to do
I’m fallin’ more for you
Baby, please tell me…

Faster
Matt Nathanson

You’re so delicious
you’re so soft
sweet on the tip of my tongue
you taste like sunlight
and strawberry bubble gum

you bite my lip
you spike my blood
you make my heart beat faster

own me, you own
you rattle my bones
you turn me over and over
‘till I can’t control myself
make me a liar
one big disaster
you make my heart beat faster

it’s the way you swell, slow
pushing right out your seams
it’s the way you smile, baby
when you’ve got me on my knees

your all night noise
your siren howl
you make my heart, beat, faster

own me, you own
you rattle my bones
you turn me over and over
‘till I can’t control myself
make me a liar
one big disaster
you make my heart beat faster

cause I jump back, crash, I crawl
I beg and steal, I follow you
yeah you own me
and you make my heart beat faster

(I can’t get enough
because its on like
I guess this world is over to me)

you own me, you own
you rattle my bones
you turn me over and over
‘till I can’t control myself
make me a liar
one big disaster
you make my heart beat faster