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Choosing Relaxation Music: A Quick Guide
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Choosing Relaxation Music: A Quick Guide
by BetterSleep
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Music is versatile, you can use it for fun and partying, relaxing, even sleeping. Choosing relaxation music varies depending on your definition of relaxing. What may be relaxing to you may not be for someone else.

Many people use relaxation music as an addition to their sleep environment. Music is good for resting because it can cancel out the noises with frequencies that disturb your sleep.

The right choice of music can promote the production of melatonin in your brain. Different types of music trigger different chemical reactions in your brain.

Calming Music and Sounds

If you are trying to relax before bed, playing some calming music may help you. Calming music can:

  • Slow down breathing.
  • Lower your heart rate.
  • Lower blood pressure.
  • Relieve body tension.
  • Calm the nervous system.
  • Reduce stress and anxiety.

Jazz Music

Jazz music is a great choice for relaxation music. There are different styles of jazz music:

  • Upbeat
  • Soothing and calming

Jazz music is comprised of complex harmonies, syncopated rhythms, and a lot of improvisation. The most common instruments you will hear in jazz music are:

  • Drums
  • Bass
  • Keyboard
  • Guitar
  • Trumpet
  • Trombone
  • Saxophone

Not all jazz music has vocals. Most of the time, relaxing jazz music will be just instruments. Many people find jazz music relaxing but there is a science behind it that is more than the beauty of the music itself.

How Jazz Music Affects Your Brain

Listening to jazz music directly affects the brain waves you produce. When you’re listening to jazz, the brain produces alpha waves. Your brain then adapts to and matches the rhythm of the song.

In this process, your brain copies the improvisational patterns within the music, continuing even after you have stopped listening to it. This is why it has such a big effect on your relaxation. Jazz music is also proven to decrease stress and anxiety.

Spa Relaxation Music

Entering a spa is always a relaxing experience. It’s tough to be in that atmosphere and still be tense.

Spas promote relaxation in their environment with relaxing music and sounds.

  • A waterfall in the spa. The sound of water can be relaxing for many, the same way that the sound of rain is relaxing.

You have probably seen spas with mini waterfalls or fountains in different areas.

  • Soothing sounds. Plenty of spas use soothing sounds for relaxation. Sounds of nature, like birds chirping, waves crashing, or wind are all common.

The wavelengths that these particular sounds create help with relaxing the mind and body.

The BetterSleep app has almost any relaxing sound you can think of. You can create a perfect relaxed environment with the hundreds of sounds to choose from.

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