http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog skills to help relationships, family, children and you! Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:26:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/most-relaxing-song-of-all-time-you-decide/910/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/most-relaxing-song-of-all-time-you-decide/910/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:46:28 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=910 There’s a new song making the rounds that is supposed to be “the most relaxing sound of all time”.  Wikipedia says, On October 16th 2011, Marconi Union created an eight minute track, ‘Weightless’ [6] in collaboration with the British Academy of Sound Therapy. In a scientific study commisioned by Radox, it was labelled as the [...] Related posts:

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Put yourself on a “stress diet”

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