stress relief  

The sound of water fall. Just walking outside if it really quiet is an excellent stress reliever for me.

It would depend on the level of stress, and what it is coming from, at times music can make it worse, even if it is music that sooths, because sometimes quiet is the best stress relief.

When listening to the music to calm or sooth, or relieve stress it would depend again on the mood and what kind of stress, on one job I had, I could leave a radio on quietly in the background, and would listen to country station especially when things were frantic pace at work and it helped, me focus more on the job, and be more productive, and work in frantic high paced job with 4 supervisors all wanting their paper work at the same time, and still remain calm.

On the other hand, there are times when country music is just annoying. If I want to kind of quiet myself and take a time out, then listening to something like Carlos Nakai, would be great, I also listen to his music for meditation.

When I am trying to focus, and relax at other times, again depending on where the stresss is from, I may choose oldies, or contemporary. I never listen to say what my roommate listens to for relaxing which is more of a hard rock, noise, loud booming sound.

I think in part that is why I say it varies to mood and frame of mind and even personality and preferences as well when it comes to music to help best for stress relief.

Yes! I dont know exactly but I know that very calming music helps the best .. The type of music you would listen to when you are doing Yoga. I like music with nature sounds like the ocean waves, or birds chirping, or even African drums or something like that. However I do not actually listen to this type of music hardly at all .. But I do find that rock music as well as metal can sometimes help to relieve stress (but it would be better to get rid of depression).

I like ambient, downtempo stuff like Portishead, Zero 7, Halou for relaxing. Oh, and the Cocteau Twins, I find them extremely relaxing.

i really do listen to it as sort of a stress reliever to be honest with you because it really does work for me...its really good at relieving your stress becaus eeverytime i get stressed out all i have to do is put my mp3 player on and just go out by myself and it all seems to just go away or something like that...i think that all kinds are the best as long as their really up beat...it always works for me..

Yes, I use music as a stress or emotional relief. For me super grungy, angry punk and rock does the thing. I think it helps me release negative energy. xD

I find that classical music is the most stress releasing music for mild stress relief.. however, if i am REALLY stressed.. I have an "angry disc" that I listen to that generally does the trick.

I listen to different types of music to relieve different types of stress. If I'm stressed out because something has made me mad I listen to 70's hard rock and if I'm uptight from a bad day 60's R&B.

music has been a need in my life for as long as ive been alive. if i could, id be one of those people that has someone following them around with a stereo playing theme music for any given part of the day! ..;laughs;..

to just relax.. and defrag from the day.. itll be something melodic and instrumental.

for stress relief.. itll be something harsh, loud, with a really hard beat.. cranked to make the windows rattle.. while im either working out or cleaning or doing other physically demanding chores.

music really relieves my stress specially those soothing musics of Mozart and Beethoven...Love songs or pop songs makes my day in a mood. It's really nice to listen to musics...