Music can definitely be theraputic treatment of the mind in a chaotic and demanding world. I often have music playing whilst working in the office as well as listening in my downtime.

Music can be far more 'de-stressing' than visual media, which is due to images passed by optical nerves taking massively more processing power of the brain. Sound conversly uses far less of the brain resulting in less stimulation and more relaxation.

So to a band who describe the impact of their musical style as "The listener is supposed to be left at ease and in a relaxed state after a magical musical journey that is at times turbulent"

Heilung is an experimental folk music band made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Viking Age. Heilung describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe". Their music is usually about Norse deities, jǫtnar, and valkyries. "Heilung" is a German word meaning "healing" in English.

As instruments, items are used that may have been already available to humans in the Iron Age, such as drums, bones or spears. They also use throat singing in a similar way to Tibetan or Mongolian traditional music, as incorporated by The HU of my previous blog.

here's to a more 'relaxed state' of being .......