Humming Could Help Fend Off Illness and Ease Stress

[lordsummerisle]

shape.com

If you hum while you read this, your body could experience beneficial side effects from the vibrations. For one, the resulting oscillation as you exhale helps circulate healthy nitric-rich air within the nasal sinuses, which creates a better environment to help protect against pathogens.

https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/humming-immune-system

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I have used humming in a stressful situation.

I got a few hot flashes for a couple of years. I got a bad one while driving once, so I turned up the radio and started singing…loud.

I don’t know if it eased my symptoms, or just distracted me, but it really seemed to calm the situation. A couple times, when around others, I hummed softly to myself. Same result.

Funny to see it in print.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Ommmmmmmmmm nt

[Ocelot II]

3. Like human purring?

[applegrove]

4. Brilliant!

[Skittles]

5. just......don't do it near me

I put them up there with whistlers in the category of people I want to kill.

[lordsummerisle]

7. So...

Instead of just asking them to please stop, you would execute them. And you would have a legal defense already set up...?

[Skittles]

8. usually I just try to get away from them

but when I was at work, I'd throw something at a hummer or whistler

[abqtommy]

6. Every day I monitor my moods. When I go around the house humming or whistling

I know I'm doin' just fine!

[electric_blue68]

9. I read an article decades ago saying...

singing, probably humming, and even shouting moves the cerebral fluids around, and probably helps to flush out toxins.