Meditation music
Music has been recognised for a long time as being helpful stress release tool. It enables dark and angry moods to quieten and be replaced by peaceful and constructive thoughts and feelings.
Music also has the ability to muster a collective determination and can be used as a clarion call to battle.
However in its employment as a calming and focusing agent, great music is profound.
Mozart, Beethoven Bach and many great composers were aware of this and channelled high potency music to help bring about change in society and peace to a world that was uneasy with itself.
So it is not surprising that meditation music helps meditation and relaxation. Many people who stress at the modern world's slings and arrows find relaxing music and meditative states a balm in their life.
Chanting and mantra also use music and carefully chanted phrases to heighten the connection with the Divine, in many traditions including Buddhist, Christian, Sufi, Jewish and Hindu cultures.
Meditation mantras as chanted by Hein Braat or Savita are excellent examples of powerful meditation music in chant.
Robert Gass and On Wings of Song use the voice and choir to create masterful music for meditation - his Songs of Healing is an example of this as well as the devotional Bliss album version of Om Namaha Shivaya.
Music in Yoga appreciates the meditative stae that can arise through the harmonious use of music and movement. Savita yoga expert Ivo Sedlacek has an intersting take on this usage. Read his article here.
Stephen Page, a gifted musician and composer has produced soem really beautiful meditation music CDs that let you float away and capture the no state state. His Spiritual Oasis and Inspirationa Journeys are both excellent for the meditation room as well as being used as background for therapeutic environments.
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