Helping to relax

[EvieBaby]

This may not be the right place for this but we'll see!

I suffer a lot from anxiety and depression and things have been really hard over the last few weeks. It doesn't help my symptoms and I get more and more worried considering I've had 2 accidents in 2 weeks. Rest sometimes helps and usually on my day off I would just go back to bed for a bit while my daughter is at school.

Anyway, on another forum someone was speaking about 'binaural beats' which I'd never heard of before. I went on you tube and it's the strangest thing. Some of it is like the music you might have on if you went somewhere fancy for a massage. But some of it is just noises played at certain frequencies. I didn't get it at all, but stuck with it.

After 30 minutes I'm feeling more relaxed than I have in weeks and the tension in my insides has gone.

It not everyone's thing, I thought it would be rubbish just listening to a weird rumbling noise, but whatever it's done it feels really good! There are lots and lots of different ones to choose from. If you need some help relaxing which I did, this might be useful to someone.

 

[nitty]

Thanks EvieBaby,

I'm a chronic stress bunny and could do with something like that. I will be looking into it. I really struggle to keep trivial things in proportion and get quite phobic about stupid stuff - it really can be debilitating, and makes my symptoms worse, too.

Thanks for the info.

 

[zHassanz]

I have heard of that before, but when I did a light research back then, it said that you need decent headphones for it to be effective. Are you using something fancy? Cuz what I have is one of those 10$ earbuds. Not sure if it's gonna do what it's supposed to with those.

 

[Bamba]

Thanks, I think I might give that a go as I have noticed things like the daily stresses of life, work etc seem to kick my insides off a bit & hopefully it might help at bedtime

 

[DEmberton]

The first one I found sounded like I was about to be abducted by aliens. Not so relaxing. Some of the others are good though.

I find listening with music helps me enormously with anxiety, but I need to really listen; i.e. sit or lie down with my eyes closed and pay attention to every note and sound and not think about anything else. Of course when I do get a bit stressed I never find the time to do this.

 

[EvieBaby]

I have heard of that before, but when I did a light research back then, it said that you need decent headphones for it to be effective. Are you using something fancy? Cuz what I have is one of those 10$ earbuds. Not sure if it's gonna do what it's supposed to with those.

I'm just using the headphones that I got with my phone years ago they're nothing amazing. But I have no proper experience or knowledge of this so I really don't know.

 

[EvieBaby]

The first one I found sounded like I was about to be abducted by aliens. Not so relaxing. Some of the others are good though.

I find listening with music helps me enormously with anxiety, but I need to really listen; i.e. sit or lie down with my eyes closed and pay attention to every note and sound and not think about anything else. Of course when I do get a bit stressed I never find the time to do this.

It took me about 5 goes to find something I felt comfortable with. The massage music wasn't my thing at all, but there was a weird kind of low rumbling noise that seemed to relax me fairly quickly. I suppose it's just trial and error. I read somewhere that a few people listening to the longer ones got interrupted by ads so I would bear that in mind. Not sure if you can download them to listen to later.

After I had done it i went for a walk and actually felt every calm. It was a weird feeling. I'm going to try it at bedtime and see if this will help me get a decent rest!