June 23, 2025
Day 9: Resetting Your Nervous System with Instrumental Music
Sometimes words are too much.
Sometimes, your nervous system just needs to breathe.
🎵 Instrumental Music Can Calm Your Body
When you remove lyrics, you bypass your brain’s language center and go straight to calming rhythms and frequencies.
✔️ Classical
✔️ Lo-fi beats
✔️ Nature soundscapes
✔️ Soft piano or acoustic
All of these can lower heart rate, reduce stress, and help regulate your nervous system.
🧘 When to Use Instrumental Playlists:
- During anxiety or panic
- Before sleep
- After emotional overload
- While journaling or meditating
This is like giving your brain a safe, quiet hug.
Tomorrow, we’ll wrap up with a playlist audit to see what’s really running your mental program.