That was wonderful, she said. You can come in again tomorrow if you like. Heck, you can come home with me. Its purpose is to alter inherent body rhythms and affect mood. For example, slow, repetitive rhythms promote relaxation.
Higher pitches tend to trigger tension while lower ones can promote a relaxed feeling.
Here are some CDs for positive listening experiences. It turns out that all that loud music, lawn mowing, leaf blowing and jackhammering at decibel-blasting levels are doing more than just damaging your hearing. The good news, says Leeds, is that additional damage can be avoided by keeping the volume down on secondhand sounds or garbage noises like boom boxes, stereo headphones, trucks and motorcycles, aircraft, sirens and auto alarms, for starters. Sound is impacting us from before we are born until the day we die, says Leeds, composer, sound researcher and author. At 18 weeks after conception, hearing is the first sense to develop in the human fetus and it s the last to go before death.