Hum away our problems in life, stimulate vagus nerve, and improve our health. Dang, I think the whole of humanity needs to do this all together on same day at same time. This is also why there are those who OM.

Prana > OM > Hmmmmm > release stress > release anxiety > live longer > save humanity from its demise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxM9wRCPW3U

Interesting, this makes me think about meditation mantras, meditation stimulates the vagus nerve and most mantras seem to cause a vibration similar to humming,

Om (or Aum) is practically how you'd spell a hum.

Om (or Aum) is practically how you'd spell a hum.

Last couple of years I think my anxiety/stress has increased, and one of the ways I believe my body/emotions is responding that is to sigh/moan more when laying in bed and cant sleep.

So sighing/moaning is likened to humming, yet differrrent frequency then happy humming song while working etc. I definitely need to get happy humming more back into my life cause I know I have been there at times. I think two surgeries have caused some of my increased stress.

Ive always made money --not much-- via my physical abilities and starting with sciatic nerve issues in leg some 10 years ago, I feel now that im falling apart and recently did work on house, and called out of work from too overworked deltoid muscle ---swollen and in pain--, and doctors letter excusing me for two weeks, etc ahhhh vs hummmm ....O....

Om (or Aum) is practically how you'd spell a hum.

Last couple of years I think my anxiety/stress has increased, and one of the ways I believe my body/emotions is responding that is to sigh/moan more when laying in bed and cant sleep.

So sighing/moaning is likened to humming, yet differrrent frequency then happy humming song while working etc. I definitely need to get happy humming more back into my life cause I know I have been there at times. I think two surgeries have caused some of my increased stress.

When I'm real sick, I make a low humming sound every time I exhale, my wife says I'm purring like a cat, now I have an excuse, I'm not purring, I'm stimulating my vagus nerve to get well.

Ive always made money --not much-- via my physical abilities and starting with sciatic nerve issues in leg some 10 years ago, I feel now that im falling apart and recently did work on house, and called out of work from too overworked deltoid muscle ---swollen and in pain--, and doctors letter excusing me for two weeks, etc ahhhh vs hummmm ....O....

Yeah, getting old sucks, (it's better than not getting old though), I can do a little work in the yard or minor lifting and by night I'm sore as hell, next day it's even worse. I use one of those frozen ice packs all the time and I eat Tylenol like they're M&Ms.

Also, old injuries that healed 30-40 years ago come back to haunt you, that really sucks. If I had a do over and could change one thing, I wouldn't have played rugby, I think it was the eight years of rugby that made me such a decrepit old man today.

I stretch, don't hum and take paracetamol very occasionally to ease virally induced pain in the lower back and hips, which usually occurs once or twice a year and typically lasts for about a week.

I probably won't take up humming, but I find that swearing is great for stress relief.

In fact, I think that I would find humming stressful.

I stretch, don't hum and take paracetamol very occasionally to ease virally induced pain in the lower back and hips, which usually occurs once or twice a year and typically lasts for about a week.

If I'm taking Tylenol only once or twice a week, I consider it a good week.

I probably won't take up humming, but I find that swearing is great for stress relief.

Well yeah, I think we all use swearing for stress relief, in fact, I was at Target buying a shirt yesterday and they had a big sign over the department that just said, "men swear", that's direct and to the point.

In fact, I think that I would find humming stressful.

Hmmmmmm, interesting, hmmmmmmm.

Also, old injuries that healed 30-40 years ago come back to haunt you, that really sucks. If I had a do over and could change one thing, I wouldn't have played rugby, I think it was the eight years of rugby that made me such a decrepit old man today.

Ok, I feel for you there.Sports can kill and maim a person. I avoided them for most part, cause I did not want to get hurt.

With no formal training I tried two back flips at age 27, attempting to use my hands in process, hands never hit ground only my head ergo neck/spinal bone at collar bone took my stupidest ever physical mistake,

Cowboy cattle rancher bulldogging cows, pigs/sows, breaking one bad horse, farmer hay bale stacker, lumber jack, rough neck drilling for gas on barge in Lousianna, manual by hand tree planter with swinging hoe-dad, carpentry, roofing, plumbing --plenty of crawling under houses--, painting houses an apt building moving tall heavy wooden ladders.

All of these jobs led me to two my two total reverse shoulder replacements. Mommmmmm, Aummmmm, Im a Bummmmm :---))

Oh yeah, once on carpentry apartment job, a 30' wooden ladder blew over side ways landed on my skull.. I was knocked backward taking few steps before falling in mud puddle. My boss thought maybe I had a concussion and had me sit in truck for an hour or so, but I felt ok and went back to work.

...take paracetamol very occasionally to ease virally induced pain in the lower back and hips, which usually occurs once or twice a year and typically lasts for about a week.

Just started a new once a day inflammatory to replace Naproxin Ive been taking ---as directed or less on bottle for 20 years as needed--, primarily back and rotor cuff issues

Tylenol absolutely as needed those 20 years same issues above,

Prednisolone { cortizoid } step-down pack for 15 years, and my doctor says, im like clockwork on getting on those every third month,

Maybe to seven shots of cortizone in each shoulder early and over lapped with moving more onto the prednisolone,

Pain management hydrocodone, Tramadol, til they kicked me out for not using enough of them or state law got more restrictive with them, maybe cause I was not as chronic as most of their patients, --ive always been a very responsible with those pain pills i.e. minimize,minimize, minimize,

Curcumin powder tho not sure it did much for me. So stopped, and trying something new White Willow Bark is what asperin is made from, tho it does have the synthsized acetylsalicylic acid in it, so wont by it again,tho it is still supposed aid with pain.

Fine with me if I dont live another 10 or 15 years, as these steel ball rotor cuff with plastic as the cartilage is rated for 20 - 25 years, they way I work them, may wear out in 15 years, and to my understanding they wont do surgery for those after a certain age limit.

Ive lived good life and with wife long time so were both grateful for our experience shared, good bad and current trails of hugs with hummming ;--))

“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”

― Shunryu Suzuki

Hmmmmmm.

Yes, I do metaphorically hum...Not sure if that stimulates my vagus nerve.

Men swear, yes that's adjacent to the women's lingerie department...Take your time, enjoy the shopping experience and general nerve stimulation, but try not to hum too loudly.

So what did you do that affected your shoulders so badly?

So what did you do that affected your shoulders so badly?

See #8 above

Don't think that shoulder replacement is very common in the UK.

I don't know of anyone who has had the procedure.

More knees and hips over here.

More knees and hips over here.

AI...Google...' Hip replacement surgery is extremely common, with over 544,000 to over 760,000 procedures performed annually in the U.S.. It is one of the most common orthopedic procedures, and that number is projected to rise to approximately 850,000 by 2030. Over 90% of these procedures are performed on adults over 50 '..

So far so good with hips. Keeping knee issues in check for some years with Azendus SAMe, along with elastic band { occasionally short periods a day or two } and a hinged knee support { when elastic doesnt fix the need tho not much so far }

I'm currently OK in the hip and knee departments.

Is it because they are not connected to your brain directly?

I think that the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone.

And the thigh bone's connected to the hip bone.......

But they are too far from the brain.

Compared to the Andromeda Galaxy they are approximate.

Any wonder you rely on them so much.

Well, knees and hips are an integral part of the self propelled organic computing device.

Though there are other coping strategies.

Your problem is your tiny ego.