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While researching the effects of music as a stress reducer, I have come across countless studies by everyone from respected neurologists to Ivy League Universities and although not all agree on the “scientific” results, I was surprised to find that one piece of music in particular was used in most; Pachelbel’s Canon.

On the new compilation, Stillness: A Collection, Real Music founder and president Terence Yallop has once again created a musical journey ideal for “relaxation, meditation, massage...love”. This collection of ten tracks features Real Music favorites including Liquid Mind, Karunesh, and Kenio Fuke. Listen & Buy

Dr. Masaru Emoto has spent a lifetime researching and testing the effects of positive thinking on the molecular structure of water. His experiments include relaying thoughts to the water through single-word labels on beakers, prayer and music. His findings are both controversial and fascinating. Music has always played a part in conveying the mood of humanity, but what does it do to us on a molecular level? This is just what Dr. Emoto set out to document. He placed distilled water between two speakers playing music for several hours.

In 1993, the University of California Irvine produced a very famous study on the effects of classical music as it relates to the memory and IQ of students. “The Mozart Effect," as it became known, took the decade by storm and soon every expectant mother had headphones around their midsection in an attempt to form the next Einstein. Since then, many follow-up studies have either confirmed these findings to some degree or revealed that perhaps “The Mozart Effect” has no long term effect at all.