So, it seems there is some research behind this question and some genuinely good evidence. Not the "house music is tuned to a special frequency" version that gets passed around online; that one doesn't trace back to any actual study I can find. But there are a couple of separate strands of real research that explain a lot about why a room full of strangers moving to the same beat does something to your brain that sitting still doesn't. If you’re curious, read on…

A brain that won't switch off isn't broken. It's a brain doing its job a bit too well, unfortunately, it doesn't realise it's causing you another problem.

The inner critic that fires before a board presentation. The catastrophising that turns a difficult quarter into an existential crisis. The stress response that hijacks your best thinking at exactly the moment you need it most.

These patterns don't live in your conscious mind. They live in your subconscious, in the ingrained habits and automatic reactions that kick in before you've had a chance to think about them. Changing them requires working at that level.

Some changes you choose. A new job, a move, a fresh start. Others arrive uninvited and knock the ground right out from under you — a redundancy, the breakdown of a relationship, a bereavement, a diagnosis. And then there are the changes that are technically 'good' but still leave you feeling strangely destabilised. A promotion. Retirement. The kids leaving home.

Whatever the change, if you're feeling adrift, anxious, or like you've lost yourself a bit …That's a completely human response to uncertainty.

Self-doubt is one of the most universal human experiences there is. But that doesn't make it any less exhausting to live with.

I had a client, successful, capable, the sort of person everyone else assumes has it together, who described her anxiety as 'a radio that never turns off.' Not blaring. Just constantly on in the background.

The phrase 'midlife crisis' does a lot of people a disservice. It makes it sound like a slightly embarrassing blip… a sports car purchase, a dramatic haircut, a brief detour before life resumes as normal. But for many people, the questioning and unsettledness that comes in midlife is far more significant than that. It's not a crisis. It's a reckoning.

Have you ever wondered why, no matter how much you want to change, something unseen, unknown keeps pulling you back into old patterns, like stress eating after a hard day, overthinking a small mistake on repeat, or reaching for a drink to unwind even when you’ve promised yourself you wouldn’t?