Anxiety Relieving Sounds

[01010111]

I don't know about anyone else here, but I suffer from pretty intense anxiety. And sometimes the only way to relieve it is with some good ol' fashioned harsh-noise drones.

So far the best thing I've found is setting up a drone on my phone using the Filtatron. So far it's been perfect for this kind of thing. Does anyone else do stuff like this? Is this what ASMR is to some people?

[Iommic Pope]

Yeah i had a bad bout back when i was studying, sometimes just ambient drone stuff got me through.
Although i prefer endless tanpura drones and nice soft choral/synth pads that kind of fade in and out.
I had a buddha machine app on my iphone that used to het a workout while i meditated as well.

Also, chinese flute and/or lute music is awesome.
Basically just sample therain scene from Hero and play it in a loop.

[Lurker13]

This is one of my favorites. I used to listen to it every Sunday night when I had a job I hated so much I almost wanted to hang myself at the thought of going back to work on Monday mornings.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICzFQFzA6no[/youtube]
Classical Japanese music is good too, and Ravi Shankar's sitar music. Gregorian chants are also very calming.

[01010111]

I guess it makes sense to listen to calming stuff when you're feeling anxiety? Mine is always so loud that I can't seem to sooth it any way other than drowning it out with screechy, grindy, earth-shaking drooooooooones. Then once it's been overpowered I'm listening to some nice noise.

Weirdly, when I'm in that place and I listen to music designed to be soothing it drives me up the wall. I can't stand it. I love Ravi Shankar, but if I try to listen to it when I'm having a bad anxiety day it only makes it worse.

[rustywire]

I don't suffer anxiety so much as angst builds and I need to pick up the guitar or other instrument and make angst-relieving sounds

[chamberpain]

This:

Mine is always so loud that I can't seem to sooth it any way other than drowning it out with screechy, grindy, earth-shaking drooooooooones. Then once it's been overpowered I'm listening to some nice noise.

plus this:

when I'm in that place and I listen to music designed to be soothing it drives me up the wall. I can't stand it...... if I try to listen to it when I'm having a bad anxiety day it only makes it worse.

is pretty much how I deal
always trying to drown out the internal noise

days where soothing works are also days that yoga and meditation work.

[Iommic Pope]

OR, go and see Neurosis....

It works.

Just sayin.

[kbit]

Yellow Swans have been a reliable source of anti-anxiety for me. This one actually helped me purge a lot of negativity earlier this week.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmwyj4DvOO4[/youtube]


Also see the albums: Going Places, Being There, Decension, Dreamed, At All Ends (this one might be a bit intense for relief, YMMV, etc)

[backwardsvoyager]

https://thecaretaker.bandcamp.com/album ... de-amnesia

this is pretty much my go-to album for clearing my head when the anxiety creeps in. there's nothing particularly coherent about it and it's neither soothing nor unsettling. all his work is great if you're into dark ambient.

[kbit]

+1, the Caretaker is wonderful. Im not familiar with that album, I'll have to check it out.

[rustywire]

...although the times I do face anxiety...BoC helps get me through it.
Type of music I can listen to in the dentist's chair and not have its future enjoyment ruined.

[bloatedsack]

I realized years ago that when my life goes really fucking sideways and awful, a couple listens of the Minor Threat "Complete Discography" puts me back in a better direction.

I'm sure as shit not nailed to the X anymore, and the level of preaching is almost too much, but Goddamn if that album won't shake me up and take me back.

[Disarm D'arcy]

Tim Hecker and Atticus Ross are my go to "too much anxiety" artists.

[Faldoe]

Yeah Tim Hecker blends noise with harmony really well.

[Dark Barn]

I've heard of people treating anxiety with white noise. I do find it relaxing if I listen to it long enough to kinda get lost in it.