How Vera Blue, Glass Animals, Allday & more are staying sane during lockdown

How Vera Blue, Glass Animals, Allday & more are staying sane during lockdown

4 years, 9 months ago

How Vera Blue, Glass Animals, Allday & more are staying sane during lockdown

ABC

Need help mellowing out? Loading E^ST is doing Miyazaki meditation One thing that I’ve been doing to keep calm in this crazy time is watch a lot of Studio Ghibli movies, especially the wholesome ones. One thing we’ve been doing is making music, there’s no time like right now to lock yourself in a studio and get creative. Music has been a really big help, I find that I’ve been listening to a lot more of the stuff I used to listen to five years ago. Music plays such an important role in my life an album I’m really loving right now is the brand new one from Little Dragon, New Me Same Us.

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What is burnout and how can music help to solve this problem?

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With end of year commitments from schools, workplaces and families piling up, many of us feel we're burning out. "It's the experience of being overwhelmed and exhausted by everything you have to do, and yet somehow still worry that you're not doing enough," says author and musician Amelia Nagoski. "So we need to separate out the process of dealing with …

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This Childhood Activity Is Going Viral On TikTok — And It's Great For Your Brain

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This Childhood Activity Is Going Viral On TikTok — And It's Great For Your Brain

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Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez via Getty Images Adults are rediscovering coloring on TikTok. Saba Harouni Lurie, a licensed marriage and family therapist, art therapist and founder of Take Root Therapy in Los Angeles, said coloring can be profoundly helpful in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression. “This can be really soothing and allow us to yield to coloring without causing the …

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Tune In to the Healing Powers of a Decent Playlist

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Tune In to the Healing Powers of a Decent Playlist

Wired

Beliefs and practices about music's ability to heal the mind, body, and spirit date back to the Upper Paleolithic period, about 20,000 years ago. AI will help here—not in writing music, but in selecting the songs and genres that meet both an individual’s tastes and the desired therapeutic and wellness goals. In the same way that an individual’s DNA can …

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6 'Soothing' Activities That Are Secretly Causing You More Anxiety

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6 'Soothing' Activities That Are Secretly Causing You More Anxiety

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Ekaterina Goncharova via Getty Images Instead of finding them relaxing, these activities might be causing you more issues. “And I know that I’m doing them, but it’s natural as humans.” Even therapists can fall into these stress traps, she said. ‘Binging’ On TV Or Shopping “The one thing I try my hardest not to do when I’m stressed is get …

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Tips to relax the mind

1 year, 9 months ago

Tips to relax the mind

Hindustan Times

Tips to relax the mind In order to stay calm, we need to relax the mind and the body through a range of activities.. 1 / 6 View Photos in a new improved layout It is important to keep the mind and the body relaxed and calm at all times. 2 / 6 View Photos in a new improved layout …

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Scientists keep time on music that helps people sleep

1 year, 11 months ago

Scientists keep time on music that helps people sleep

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Experts believe this is because there is no “one-size-fits-all” when it comes to the kind …

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Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why

2 years, 10 months ago

Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why

NPR

Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. "I can't actually play a song," says Schneider, who suffered two serious brain injuries during nearly 22 years in the Marines. "We know that when we receive music, even when we hear music, we're activating multiple parts of the brain," she says. Enlarge this image toggle caption Madeline Gray for …

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What does mindfulness with plants look like? Justina Blakeney can show you the way

3 years, 2 months ago

What does mindfulness with plants look like? Justina Blakeney can show you the way

LA Times

If you have a plant in your home in Los Angeles, you might owe Justina Blakeney a shoutout. Jungalow’s designs favor the multiculturalism and the love for plants that have been part of its founder’s world her whole life. We caught up with Blakeney, perhaps the plant person in L.A., to talk about her life spent “enamored with plants.” Tell …

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8 Effortless Self-Care Activities That Take Only 5 Minutes To Do

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8 Effortless Self-Care Activities That Take Only 5 Minutes To Do

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AleksandarNakic via Getty Images You don't need to devote a ton of time to self-care in order to reap the benefits. “It’s important to take time off work and other responsibilities to pause, reflect and refresh, even if it’s just for five minutes. “Spend five minutes thinking about what you can take off your brain’s plate today, or even this …

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Do you have a pandemic playlist?

3 years, 8 months ago

Do you have a pandemic playlist?

Live Mint

One of the most played songs on Kishi Arora’s phone in the last year is Ray LaMontagne’s We’ll Make it Through”. Initially, I could not sleep as I wasn’t tired enough and music helped me relax.” said Kumar, who discovered the music of Queen last year, including them on her pandemic playlist with other favourites like Pentatonix, Adele, Maroon 5 …

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Millennials turn to meditation, online prayer to beat stress

4 years, 8 months ago

Millennials turn to meditation, online prayer to beat stress

Live Mint

After putting her two toddlers to sleep, Shweta Khandelwal, 33, spends an hour every night with meditation app Calm to manage the anxiety she feels about a rapidly-spreading virus that’s infected more than 3 million people worldwide. “I couldn’t sleep during the first week of the lockdown because I kept worrying about my kids,” says Khandelwal, who quit her career …

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Plants are magical. Right now, they’re keeping me sane

4 years, 9 months ago

Plants are magical. Right now, they’re keeping me sane

LA Times

I am a homebody, so I wasn’t entirely shaken when the necessity of social distancing became a reality. I’ve known about the magic of plants since I was 13, when my psychologist parents were teaching at a university in Switzerland. So for years I’ve filled my home with plants. And while my dear friends’ baby showers are canceled, I FaceTime …

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The best music to help you fall asleep and combat coronavirus anxiety

5 years, 5 months ago

The best music to help you fall asleep and combat coronavirus anxiety

LA Times

The sleep aid industry is expected to be worth $100 billion by 2023, and audio services from Spotify to Calm cater to the booming anxiety economy. In “Sleep Comes Down,” the Psychedelic Furs’ Richard Butler describes that same moment: “It’s raining in my head/But no tears come down/And I’m dreaming of you/Until sleep comes around.” British pop heartthrob Zayn describes …

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The music mantra!

5 years, 6 months ago

The music mantra!

Deccan Chronicle

Lately, researchers have shown more interest in how listening to music can rationally benefit us in numerous ways. Luckily, music can help put us back on a more productive track.” Throwing some light on how this works she says, “Pleasurable music increases dopamine levels in the brain. Sounds of nature can mask intelligible speech just as well as white noise …

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