Music Soothes Anxiety as Well as Massage Does – iVillage

This may be one of the advantages of chanting…. Vishnusahasranama etc…

FRIDAY, March 19 HealthDay News — Massage can reduce anxiety, but no better than a cheaper approach — simply relaxing while listening to soft, soothing music.A new study shows that patients, on average, had half the symptoms of anxiety three months after getting a series of 10 hour-long massages. But researchers were surprised to find that massages didnt reduce anxiety anymore than lying down and listening to enjoyable music.”We were surprised to find that the benefits of massage were no greater than those of the same number of sessions of … listening to relaxing music,” Karen J. Sherman, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute, said in a news release from the institute. “This suggests that the benefits of massage may be due to a generalized relaxation response.”

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