{"id":312933,"date":"2026-03-04T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:23:30","slug":"why-24-minutes-of-music-may-be-the-sweet-spot-for-anxiety-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312933\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 24 Minutes Of Music May Be The Sweet Spot For Anxiety Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups: 24 minutes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/pink-noise-reduced-rem-sleep-by-19-minutes-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/pink-noise-reduced-rem-sleep-by-19-minutes-study-finds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pink noise<\/a> (the control), or 12, 24, or 36 minutes of music embedded with ABS. The results found that all three music conditions outperformed the pink noise control. However, the 24-minute session produced the strongest overall reduction in anxiety, performing just as well as the 36-minute session and outperforming the 12-minute version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups: 24 minutes of pink noise (the control), or 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3404,1596,134,554,555,157,111,139,69,3405],"class_list":["post-312933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-anxiety","tag-brain","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}