Hello all! I’m from Steveston BC which is very close to Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. A friend recommended this site to me and given my recent unexpected and unwelcome encounters with anxiety, I thought I‘d jump into the Mastering Monsters course to see if I could find some new tools that may help me deal with this bothersome state of mind. I enjoy following the guidance of Echkart Tolle and Michael Singer and though I believe whole heartedly with their views on being present and accepting each moment as it arises, sometimes their recommended techniques just don’t seem to be enough to keep the seeds of discouragement planted by anxiety from growing into unwanted plants in my garden of calm and gratitude.

Hi there, I recently signed up for the Mastering Monsters course (such a great name!) and am intrigued with the idea of the ventral vagus tone being positively affected by music with wide melodic leaps. I had to read up more on what ’wide melodic leaps’ actually are. Now I wish I knew of more music that has this quality as I am not a fan of opera, gregorian chant or disney soundtracks. Surely there are other possibilities…can anyone suggest some?