WE'RE PICKIN' UP GOOD VIBRATIONS...Shaking it off

SHAKE yer tail feather over here! Gadgets which vibrate could be the answer to fixing stress and provide much-needed calmness to those suffering from anxiety according to boffins, as we revealed yesterday.

Here KIM CARR puts her finger on 15 pulsating facts about vibrations...

1 Ancient Egyptians were fascinated by the sound of vowels and believed those sounds could generate vibrations with healing powers. They practised a method called toning, where vowel sounds were manipulated using the breath and voice, believing a sick person had lost their inner harmony and was not in tune with the universe.

2 Greek philosopher Pythagoras looked at the relationship between geometry and maths to music.

He declared musical vibrations were healing as they could harmonise an out of balance body.

3 While your lugs might not be able to hear it, everything around us has its own vibration as atoms are in a constant state of motion.