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Hi. My name is Seth, and I\u2019ve been engulfed by acute anxiety for most of my adult life.<\/p>\n

Even after having gone through\u00a0intensive psychodynamic therapy,\u00a0I still had no\u00a0concept of how much anxiety was interfering with my daily life\u2026 until I took a Hypnobirthing course with my wife.<\/p>\n

As I\u00a0witnessed,\u00a0first hand, the extraordinary impact that\u00a0relaxation can have\u00a0during birth, and as I engaged\u00a0with the ways in which that can be\u00a0achieved, I began unexpectedly to have an awareness of myself that I\u2019d been unable to attain\u00a0until\u00a0that moment.<\/p>\n

Anxiety, it transpired, had been such a normal state of affairs for me, for so long, that I had been\u00a0completely blind to it. I was unable to separate the anxiety<\/em> from myself<\/em>; it seemed that this\u00a0was just \u201cwho I was.\u201d\u00a0I was having panic attacks on a daily basis (often seemingly out of thin air). My impossibly difficult & unpredictable moods were causing immense strain on my marriage. Normal interactions and responsibilities caused me\u00a0disproportionate stress, leaving me physically and mentally drained. In psychodynamic therapy, I explored the root causes of my difficulties, but still, I did not at any point identify with the concept of anxiety. Only years later, when I began reading about mindfulness, was I finally able to distinguish between myself and my anxiety. That has been a profound and life-changing revelation.<\/p>\n

Although I\u2019ve always had a passion for music, I\u00a0hadn\u2019t realized how much it could help me (and others) cope with anxiety. After our first child was born, my wife began teaching Hypnobirthing classes herself. Music plays a significant role in Hypnobirthing, but the prescribed selection of music is extremely limited, and not quite to everyone\u2019s taste. My wife\u2019s students\u00a0began asking for more musical options, and having struggled to find much to offer, my wife commissioned me to write some relaxation\u00a0music\u00a0based on the feedback from her classes.<\/p>\n

After doing some preliminary research, I found that the majority of the relaxation music available today tends to be\u00a0a bit homogenous and emotionally neutral, often using\u00a0the same limited range of sounds, musical devices and production techniques. I decided to create something different.<\/p>\n

My approach was to construct slowly, constantly developing \u2018glacial\u2019 movement, with\u00a0a wide range of soft, contrasting timbres and pitches underpinned by more emotionally evocative melodies and harmonies. The idea was essentially to make something more musically moving, like a slow-motion cinematic soundscape.<\/p>\n

After producing my first two finished tracks,\u00a0my wife relayed\u00a0them to her students. To my delight, my music\u00a0was not only well received, but enthusiastically deployed during several pregnancies\u00a0and births! Encouraged by the warm reception, I made the tracks available online on\u00a0soundcloud.com\/relaxationsynthesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As life would have it, I ended up getting\u00a0distracted with other matters for several\u00a0years, and completely\u00a0neglected to check up on the music that I had uploaded. When I finally\u00a0ended up\u00a0peeking at the stats, I found to my amazement that there were hundreds of thousands of plays<\/em> and hundreds of likes and shares<\/em>. Following that startling\u00a0discovery, I decided to devote the\u00a0time to completing the full album.<\/p>\n

In my life so far, I\u2019ve worked through psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, various forms of meditation, and a great many\u00a0self-help books. The concept of mindfulness has been one of the most transformative I\u2019ve yet encountered, and although I haven\u2019t yet fully conquered my anxiety, I am, happily, well on the\u00a0way.<\/p>\n

My music\u00a0has been deliberately fed by my own experiences, as it had to help me relax, meditate and encourage my own emotions to flow in order to work through them. Over the past few years, many others have found these tracks helpful in a similar way, and I hope that by releasing this album, the music\u00a0will help many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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