TJ Power

And it's actually quite a lot of effort to get there.

Yeah, it's interesting.

There's kind of two chemicals that can be at play with music.

If you were kind of lying on the sofa listening to some music that you really like and you were just passively listening to it and it was calming you and it was regulating your nervous system, that could have a big impact on serotonin.

That could help bring your brain into presence.

Where endorphins really come into play with music and how it can be so effective for de-stressing you is when you sing or dance to the music because the body really wants physical activation.

If you just sort of like hum to it one day in the car, just hum to a song.

Then one day really sing to it in the car and you don't have to be good at singing.

It's relevant how good you are.

I'm not a good singer, but I sing a lot now.

And you'll notice that if you really sing, it creates a very euphoric experience.

It's not just calming.

It's actually like euphoria to sing.

There might be a time in your life where you have really sang with your friends or on your own or in the shower, in the car, a silent disco.

Funny at silent discos and people have the headphones on because suddenly they feel like this confidence to sing in front of others because no one can hear them.

And real euphoria can come from singing.

For hundreds of thousands of years, singing and chanting was a big part of humanity.

And a lot of the religious practice involved a lot of singing as well.

And singing out loud is something that you might think in your head, well, it's been like a week since I sung out loud.

Maybe longer.