Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let the beat drop...your anxiety levels. We’re not talking about any old beats, but ones some therapists are using as a form of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sleeping is as crucial to our health as eating and breathing. And yet sound, restful sleep evades so many of us. Indeed, millions ...

The practice of using sound to promote mental and physical well-being goes back at least 40,000 years to indigenous Australians playing wind instruments called didgeridoos. Today, many forms of sound ...

Studies show music can improve mood and reduce anxiety. More specifically, meaningful music shifts our neurobiology, tapping brain systems that involve emotion, sensation, attention, mood, and ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

When you hear two slightly mismatched sounds, an odd thing can happen. You start to hear a third sound, a rhythmic beat that does not exist. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself, here. This strange ...

You know that feeling when you’re lying on a vibrating bed under a string of chakra lights on a Wednesday afternoon? Because same. I recently kicked back to realign my chakras, balance my energies, ...

The use of sound as medicine is one of humanity’s oldest healing traditions. In ancient Egypt, priests used chanting and ...

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A binaural beat is an illusionary tone created by the brain when presenting two tones separately to each ear that slightly differ in their frequency. It's claimed binaural beats can have a ...

Let the beat drop...your anxiety levels. We’re not talking about any old beats, but ones some therapists are using as a form of sound-wave therapy to help their patients combat anxiety. They’re called ...