Sleep-music Apps to the rescue

We all know how detrimental inadequate sleep is to our well being. It can lead to depression, health issues, low confidence and even shorten life span. While popping medicines is most people’s stop gap solution, a natural solution which could help is always welcome. Nothing like music therapy!

Music has scientifically shown to calm nerves and help people sleep. Just like a lullaby works for babies so can it for adults. Soothing music is supposed to reduce stress hormones that are produced by the adrenaline gland. Classical music or any soft music with a certain tempo and rhythm can silence the nerves and help us zone out from our constantly racing thoughts. Alpha waves work wonderfully on our brain and help us fall asleep.

Songs with a slow rhythm of 60-80 BPM are considered best. Easy listening music such as slow jazz, instrumental, classical is calming and a favourite of listeners on long flights. Now you even have dedicated sleep apps, such as

• Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds (Android): It has over 100 sounds from which to create your own sound mix. The app helps you make your own soundscape with sleep sounds and melodies and find a solution to insomnia, nighttime anxiety, tinnitus, also works wonders on babies and children. It has an assortment of nature sounds, ambient melodies, white noise and pink noise, and six different frequencies of binaural beats and isochronic tones to help you relax, sleep and dream.
• Pzizz Sleep (Android): This sleep app has many fans including NBA star Roy Hibbert and author JK Rowling. Pzizz claims to deliver sleep “at the push of a button”. Using the science of psychoacoustics (that create dreamscapes in your mind and help you zone out), the app's patented system plays you a sleep-optimized mix of music, voiceover, and sound effects to quickly quiet your mind, put you to sleep, keep you asleep, and then wake you up feeling refreshed. The app can be used to sleep better at night or even to take power naps to stay charged.
• Real Music Box (Android): It is known to be effective for babies as well as adults. The app plays classical melodies with pleasant sounds of a music box. It even looks like a real music box! The soothing music can help your baby get to sleep with a great line up of nursery rhymes and lullabies. This app even helps you create your own tune.
• Free Relaxing nature sounds and Spa music (Android): The soundboard has 35 relaxing sounds, you can combine or enjoy them on their own. The list comprises of varying sounds from breaking waves with seagulls, crickets chirping or the sounds of a flute, and many more. All selected sounds from the soundboard can be saved and replayed later. All you have to do is open the Soundboard and tap on any of the sounds that you would like to combine together and save them. Every sound in the soundboard has its own volume control, iOS 4 background audio support.

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