How To Meditate With Music

Also, natural sounds are more random and less “catchy” than music, and the mind is less likely to become attached to and distracted by them. So at worst I’d say that natural recordings do no harm, while at best they may help us to fill a need for the experience of natural sound. Music on the other hand is likely to be a distraction, or to artificially produce pleasant feelings, thus preventing us from finding those pleasant feelings from within. If you’re going to listen to music as meditation then you have to take it seriously as a practice. Try not to do anything else at the same time.

Choosing to add music with a slower tempo to your practice can help you to quickly quiet your mind and relax your body. In turn, allowing you let the worries of the day gently fade away. From reduced stress and anxiety to greater cognitive ability.

In fact, numerous meditation practices are based solely around breathing, with the idea that mental and emotional benefits will follow. There’s a reason yoga and meditation go hand in hand. Coordinating your inhales and exhales to physical movements actually has measurable effects on your mental focus.

Almost as old as the primordial sounds and chants, instrumental music has also been incorporated into meditation for thousands of years. Instrumental music has the strongest capabilities to draw out your emotions through the beautiful and raw compositions devoid of words. Just try out this amazing soundtrack from the popular YouTube channel YellowBrickCinema to understand what I mean. Some of my best articles, and ideas come to me just after meditating and music can compound that effect even more. Studies show that happy music encourages divergent or creative thinking. Meditating with music can help you attune your emotional state in a balanced manner.

This technique involves deep, even-paced breathing using the diaphragm muscle to expand your lungs. The purpose is to slow your breathing, take in more oxygen, and reduce the use of shoulder, neck and upper chest muscles while breathing so that you breathe more efficiently. This is a form of gentle Chinese martial arts. In tai chi (TIE-CHEE), you perform a self-paced series of postures or movements in a slow, graceful manner while practicing deep breathing.

Keeping these benefits in mind, there have been new developments in creating music that when paired with meditation help increase its impact. Which is a unique kind of music especially engineered to help meditators achieve a deeper and more relaxed state. Studies have shown that listening to slow and hypnotic music can alter brain wave patterns, by matching frequencies that boost brain activity. In addition to activating various types of hormones such as, serotonin and dopamine. Which also make a positive impact on the mind and body.

And on Music and Meditation (available at AmyZabin.com), I lead listeners into a deep meditation using guitar and flute music as well as crystal singing bowls. While the idea of music is similar to that of mantras, in that it produces an energy or a vibration that one becomes consumed in, the truth is, not all music will elicit a calming effect. The most scientifically and time-tested method to build concentration abilities, and one-minded focus is with Healing Music meditation. This breathing takes about 90 seconds to complete. Within this time, the individual can notice the worrying thoughts, and begin to control and release them. As mentioned earlier, each word and sound has its own unique vibration.

By slowing down the breath, holding it in, and then exhaling for a longer time, the individual can get rid of as much carbon dioxide as possible, and return the body to its equilibrium. Not only is deep breathing easy to learn, but it becomes automatic with practice. The Psychology Dictionary describes relaxation as a “state of being relaxed”.

This community is for sharing experiences, stories and instruction relating to the practice of meditation. A lot of bad advice and hot hair from people who are quite possibly miserable despite years of trying to stick to some overly restrictive notion of what meditation is, here. Don't get too hung up on what meditating is and isn't. There isn't such thing as "correct meditation" except for in someone's own terms.

The sounds of water beating over rocks, rain, or birds chirping is incredibly peaceful and makes for a pleasant meditation experience. I personally meditate using the guided meditation app called Calm. Although Calm largely offers guided meditations, I primarily listen to their sounds-only meditation and my favorite is rainfall.