Rhythm and the Nervous System — What We Know and What We Don't

Drums, lullabies, rocking, marching, the unprintable comfort of a train: humans are rhythmic animals. Chanting borrows that animal. Popular nervous-system talk currently loves to explain everything as regulation. Regulation is real. It is also a fashion. Fashions overclaim.

What we don't know: whether your chosen syllables outperform a metronome plus kindness. What we do know: a harsh inner climate plus a forced practice can dysregulate. Stop if you fray.

Your nervous system is not a brand. It is a weather. Treat it as such.

This is as far as this house will go toward 'the science of chanting'. The rest is tradition, love, and the next bead.