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?
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Hi Erin. You can find any kind of music that has wide intervals. Or you might like to listen to these kinds of music not for pleasure but for their therapeutic benefit. Simply following the line of the Melody with your mind or - even better - singing along can break any resistance the dorsal and sympathetic states of arousal and collapse might put in the way of coming into the vagal state. For this exercise it’s more about the therapeutic effect than the aesthetic one.
A theory called Sentic Cycles - Manfred Clynes mentions this also