Some-one mentioned music to help relax after a brain injury-this was a few weeks ago and I cannot trace it. I think it was classical music.

[jeanni]

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Hi

I know a lot of people find watching the landscape programme which plays music and landscape pictures on the Showcase Channel (400) on Freesat helps

also on youtube their are a lot of relaxation videos you can play just start them playing (i use a tablet with earphones plugged in ) then relax

[jeanni]

Hi,

Thank you. I will look into that.. I did see a post a few weeks ago suggesting some classical music that different sides of the brain respond too. I am trying to help my son who had a TBI two years ago and is often like a coiled spring usually because he has over-tired himself. It is the fatigue that hits him the hardest because he used to be so active.

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I THINK LISTENING TO THE MUSIC YOU ENJOY MOST IS A TERRIFIC RELAXANT WHATEVER THE STYLE. HOPE IT HELPS

[jeanni]

Thank you Zeblet I quite agree.

[Bards]

Try searching for 'get the endorphins going' thread. Maybe that's the one, although itn wasn't relaxation as such? There was some classical mentioned, though myself, Zeblet and others took it off into Death Metal territory for reasons best known to ourselves...?! In terms of Classical, Schumann's Piano Quintet played by Sviatoslav Richter and some quartet or another, pretty well all Debussy, Berlioz 'Symphonie Fantastique', Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', Mendellson's 'Violin Concerto', Borodin's 2nd Symphony, Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' and 'Night on a Bare Mountain', Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scherezade' and some of the new minimalist stuff such as Phillip Glass' 'Company' all work for me depending where my head's at. Best listened to NOT on a laptop, but with decent stereo speakers or headphones, but then I am a bit of an audio snob. BBC Radio 3 is always worth tuning into; most of the time I tune straight out again, but you may always bump into a nugget that floats your boat. Hope that gives you some stuff to chase (assuming that's what you were after, and I haven't filled the site with irrelevant guff...).

[jeanni in reply to Bards]

Third time lucky to reply to you Bards-I wasnt replying properly. Thank you for all the info you sent me. I will certainly follow it all up-not sure about the Death Metal though.!!

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I KNOW EXTREME METAL IS MY THING, IT RAISES MY MOOD NO END. FOR PEACEFUL RELAXING I LOVE CHOPIN, SATIE & TCHAIKOVSKY. I GO FROM ONE END PECTRUM OF THE SPECTRUM THE OTHER!

[jeanni]

Sorry Bards I thought I had replied to you -but I cannot find the post. I must try the endorphins thread-that may be the one. I am grateful for all the info you have sent in your post and will take note of it all-not sure about the Death metal bit though!!

[Bards]

Great; feel free to let me know if you think it all stinks. Debussy's "Prelude a L'Apres Midi D'un Faune (sp?) floats most boats and is short for dipping a toe in... When wearing my TBI hat with pride I like Alice in Chains 'Check My Brain' and 'Do 'ya Like Me Now' by The Heavy.

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LOVEBLY MUSIC.DOES THIS INCLUDE CLAIRE DE LUNE IF NOT TRY THAT IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

ALSO THESE - JERRY CANTRELL NO EXCUSES (THINK IT'S JERRY CANTRELL BUT COULD BE AIC??) PINK FLOYD SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, SO ATMOSPHERIC & NOT HEAVY I PROMISE. WE LISTENED TO IT IN AUSTRALIA AT 4AM ON THE WAY TO AYERS ROCK TO SEE THE SUNRISE, SO BEATIFUL & THE PERFECT SOUND TRACK.

[Tortie14]

There is also music with binaural beats which they claim can help like meditation. They do some with nature sounds or also sorts of music not just classical - but I don't think heavy metal! You can find some free to try out if you google.

[jeanni in reply to Tortie14]

Thank you Tortie 14.

[pauly-paul]

Also worth looking into music recorded at A=432Hz (Verdi tuning) as well. Musical pitch was altered post war to make tuning universal. In doing so the tuning reference of A was moved up 8Hz from 432Hz to 440Hz. There is a significant movement under way to try and have it returned back to 432Hz as it corresponds to natural resonance. I'm sure if you youtube 432Hz relaxation music you will find it. Gregorian chant, Tibetan singing bowls and recordings of the sea also provide theraputic frequencies you might want to experiment with. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring as amazing as it is as piece was tuned even higher than 440Hz to emphasise the dissonance and actually induced riotous behaviour from the audience when it was first publicly performed!! Such is the power of frequency. I've worked with binaural beats before and some seem to induce a meditative effect yet some just seem to be irritating. As Bards said the effectiveness of the music is greatly increased if the quality of the equipment you listen on is higher as it can more accurately reproduce the frequencies.

Enjoy experimenting and let us know how you get on