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My mother used to hum to me all the time.

Melodies and it just taps into kind of very warm, nostalgic parts of my life from childhood.

I was very lucky that we were very close and she would always sing to me and she would

always hum to me.

Some Chinese melodies, which I still remember today, I find myself humming them when I'm

making myself a cup of coffee.

I'm like, oh, must I actually learn the words of that?

But the melody is enough to kind of, yeah, it takes me straight back to those happy memories.

When we hum, we breathe out, activating our vagus nerve, helping our heart rate slow

down.

When we hear slow and gentle melodies, the same can happen.

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