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Did you know that singing can help with anxiety? #shorts

Name: Did you know that singing can help with anxiety? #shorts
Uploaded: 2022-06-03T12:00:10+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Dr. Nicole Cain
Description: A brief YouTube #short by Dr. Nicole Cain describing a personal observation that singing and humming (prosody) helped reduce her anxiety when she was…

3 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube #short by Dr. Nicole Cain describing a personal observation that singing and humming (prosody) helped reduce her anxiety when she was training as an opera singer. She explains that humming/singing can activate the vagus nerve and recommends trying it as a strategy to calm anxiety.

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Did you know that singing can help with anxiety? You might not know this, but I was actually training to be an opera singer when I was in college. And interestingly, at that time in my life, I had a lot less anxiety than when I ended up switching careers and switching into mental health. Ironic, right? So it's really fascinating because I found myself in this habit where I would hum scales. Like, I'd be driving and walking and doing all the things, and I just catch myself naturally wanting to hum scales. So I'm just like. And what I didn't know is that that's prosody, is that humming and singing activates the vagus nerve, which is a strategy to calm anxiety. So you should try it. Let me know what you think.