thanks arfie. that's a great post. despite your anxiety you seem
to have an upbeat attitude about stuff. I love the song 'let the mystery be' i also love the website which i will share with a highschool friend. have a great day arfie! keep on keepin on (((HUG)))

I don't have a therapy song. But I do use music when I am anxious.
I listen to CDs. Barbra Streisand, The Carpenters, Simon and Garfunkel,
etc.

You got it! That's a great way to release anxiety and let all loose!

https://youtu.be/QDYfEBY9NM4

glad you like it, my fellow questioner. as it happens, "let it be" is my therapy song for control freakitis. when i find myself acting like the master expert on how the world oughta be, , ,

"mother mary comes to me
"speaking words of wisdom
"let it be."

i have waaaaaaaaaaay more than one therapy song, tired. as it happens, all three of the artists you listed have songs in my therapy song jukebox.

"don't worry that it's not good enough
"for anyone else but you.
"just sing. . . sing a song."

thank you, mid. music does, indeed, soothe the savage beast. even psycho beasts.

I find music very therapeutic. I would love to learn how play the guitar as a kid from 6 years old I played piano all through out highschool I’d probably forget how to play since it’s been since 2000 I graduated highschool and that’s the last time I ever played.

i played musical instruments, both home made and store bought since before i could talk. music is, literally, my first language. my early speech development was seriously delayed, so i remember my first language better than most. but i have needed much reframing to retain rights to my first language in the face of critic discouragement and female musician jokes.

i opine that we need another word for making music. joni mitchel WORKS music. it intimidates the unholies out of me to call what she does, "playing." what she does with music is harder and more repetitious work than any work i've ever been paid for. it feels like a sacrilege to call our respective noisemaking by the same name. oil and water are both fluids, but they don't mix well.

i play and i reserve the right to play with whatever instrument i please, especially voice. yes, sweet girl. the voice is the most versatile instrument in the opera.

for what it's worth
piano was my first formal music training. i didn't get too far on that formal training. formal musicians scare me and performing is more than my social anxiety can handle. i picked up guitar because pianos are not very portable. by the time i stopped wandering far enough to give a piano a home, i was pretty hooked on guitar, but i still reserve the right to play piano. play, not work.

I also think about playing the harmonica because I love the sound of it and to me it feels relaxing.

my personal favorite thing about the harmonica is that you can carry it neatly in your pocket. well. . . the girlie girl pockets can lose anything, but. . . it fits neatly into real pockets. some of the girlie girls can fit them into their bras.