Fr4nklyB

Author of FRISSON 📘 | Using music-triggered goosebumps for flow, healing & gym gains 🎧 | Book 🔗

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Live music can hit differently because there is no emotional safety glass between you and the sound.
You are not just hearing a recording.
You are in the same room as the risk.
The breath before the note.
The tiny imperfection.
The musician pushing through a moment that will never happen exactly that way again.
That can make the body listen harder.
A violin line in a room.
A voice cracking live.
A crowd going silent at the same time.
Sometimes frisson is not only caused by the music.
It is caused by being present when the music becomes real.
#MusicEmotion

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Some songs hit harder because they are attached to something.
A place.
A person.
A version of you.
A memory you thought had gone quiet.
“The more deeply connected you are to a moment or memory, the more potent Frisson becomes.”
That idea sits near the centre of the whole book for me.
Music is not just sound.
Sometimes it is a key.
And without warning, it opens a room inside you that you forgot was still there.
More in Frisson. Link in bio.
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@gpetroia71 @DigitalG15 There’s already very little refill holders….

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Some people do not just hear music.
They feel it move through them.
“If you feel frisson, you feel the world more deeply.”
That line from Frisson is simple, but it says a lot.
The chills are only part of it.
The bigger thing is sensitivity:
to sound,
to memory,
to emotion,
to beauty,
to moments that cut through the noise.
Frisson is my attempt to give language to that strange physical feeling many people have had but never fully understood.
More in Frisson. Link in bio.
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Frisson is sometimes described as aesthetic chills.
Research around music-induced chills points toward the brain’s reward and emotion systems lighting up during intense musical moments.
Especially when anticipation, surprise, memory, and meaning collide.
That explains why a song can build for 40 seconds, hold you in tension, then release into one note or chorus that makes your skin react.
Your brain predicts where the music is going.
The music bends that prediction.
Your nervous system answers.
Goosebumps are not random.
Its feedback, the body’s way of saying:
Pay attention, this means something!
#MusicEmotion

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The strangest part of frisson is not always the chills.
Sometimes it is what remains after them.

“My brain wasn’t just learning to experience Frisson. It was learning to exist permanently in a heightened state of openness, sensitivity, and emotional richness.”

That idea changed how I thought about the whole thing.
At first, I thought I was chasing a reaction.
Goosebumps.
Euphoria.
That sudden emotional lift from music.
But over time, it became more about attention.
Noticing more.
Feeling more.
Recognising beauty before dismissing it.
That idea sits at the heart of Frisson.
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There are some moments with music that feel too big for the word “listening.”
A sound cuts through.
Your body reacts.
Your mind catches up later.
“Later, I would come to describe this feeling as ‘physical poetry,’ because that’s exactly how it felt—pure emotions and physical resonance combined in the exact same moment.”
That line is from my book Frisson.
I still think “physical poetry” is the closest phrase I have found for it.
Not just a nice song.
Not just nostalgia.
Something emotional becoming physical before you can explain it.
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There was one moment where frisson stopped feeling like a strange reaction and started feeling like something I needed to understand.

Immediately.

From my book:
“This wasn’t just chills. This was an overwhelming, full-body sensation. It literally took my breath away. For a brief moment, I physically stopped breathing and was aware of this fact.”

That was the point where music stopped being background sound for me.
It became evidence.
Evidence that a song can reach the nervous system before the mind has language for what is happening.

More in Frisson. Link in bio.
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@garyvee @veefriends Too late to the party like always :(
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Frisson is not just “music I like.”
That is the part people often miss.
You can love a song and feel nothing physical.
Then another song catches you off guard with one note, one pause, one voice break, one unexpected lift and suddenly your body reacts before you can explain why.

Chills.
Goosebumps.
A breath held for half a second.
A full body experience like being enveloped by energy.

A big part of frisson seems to live in that gap between expectation and arrival.
Your brain thinks it knows where the music is going.
Then the music turns.
And your body answers.
#Frisson

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@PashaBorsai Haha 😝

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I thought frisson training would only change how I listened to music.
But the stranger impact was what happened outside the music.

“Simple things—a beautiful sky, the sound of my children laughing, a bee on a stick, a well-crafted sentence—often triggered a gentle, Frisson-like response.”

That line from my book still matters to me.
Because the real surprise was not just stronger chills from songs.
It was noticing more.
Beauty.
Meaning.
Small moments I used to miss.

Living!

More in Frisson. Link in bio.
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@ThebookishC Is this your first thought? I’m not even sure I would ever think they were performing? What a waste of time that would be…

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One of the strangest things about frisson is that it often comes from surprise.

Not random surprise.
Emotional surprise.

A song builds in a way your brain half-expects, then suddenly turns.

A voice cracks at the exact right second.
A violin note rises higher than you thought it would.
Layers on top of layers.
A lyric lands with meaning you were not ready for.

That tiny gap between expectation and arrival can be powerful.
Even silence plays its part at times.
Your brain predicts.
The music bends the prediction.

Your body answers with goosebumps and frisson.

The same song might do nothing one day, then give you chills years later under different circumstances.

The sound did not change.

You did.
#Frisson

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@JoshPhillipsPhD Book better .

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I wrote Frisson because I kept coming back to one question:
How can a song change your internal state so quickly?

Not just mood.
Your focus.
Your energy.
Your memory.
Your whole sense of being present for a moment.
The more I explored it, the more I realised this was not just about music taste.
It was about the strange connection between sound, emotion, the nervous system, and meaning.

Frisson is my attempt to give language to a truly beautiful experience.

Read Frisson via the link in bio.
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