The Benefits of Music Therapy And Meditation Music
Phew, where to begin? The benefits of Music Therapy and Meditation Music are so vast that one page is not enough to list them all. But I’ll outline the best of them! Once you understand the benefits you will enjoy meditation music and the
magic it makes possible.
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." George Szell
The desired result from listening to meditation music would be to shift your
brain waves
from the beta state to the alpha state. When your brain is emitting alpha brain waves you will be relaxed, alert and clear.
You will most often drift naturally into this state when falling asleep or just as you wake up, before the barrage of thoughts breaks loose in your head and worry, concern, stress, etc, shift you from the alpha brain wave state back to the beta, which is your normal day-to-day state.
A few more benefits of Music Therapy include:
Enhanced mental clarity, focus and concentration;
A deeper sense of peace and relaxation;
Reduction of stress, blood pressure and heart rate;
Activation of your natural healing energies through the use of vibration;
Meditation music has a high vibration that cannot be lowered and as such will increase your vibration;
Assist you in shifting from shallow breathing to
deep breathing;
You ain’t going to break the bank by improving your well being with meditation music.
Baroque Music
Modern Pioneers of Alpha Brain Waves
Baroque Music was one of the first mainstream vehicles to carry the benefits of music therapy to the public.
Baroque music composers found that certain music can automatically shift your brain waves into the alpha state. As such baroque music is frequently recommended when you have to hit the books for an all-night cram session!
To get a bit more technical, the music that does the job of shifting you into the alpha brain wave state is usually composed at around 40 – 60 beats per minute (bpm), roughly one beat a second. This is a slow, casual beat and when compared to modern pop or rock music usually at 90 – 160 bpm, a big difference begins to show.
Baroque musicians were amongst the first commercial folks to get this across to the masses. Meditation Music employs similar principles with a slow, steady, pulsating rythm. Before you know it your brain will have shifted up a gear to the alpha brain wave state.
Perhaps you’ve heard the saying – “Music soothes even the savage beast”. This saying, although a cliché now-a-days, embodies what music is capable of doing, no more so than relaxing music. We all have a “savage beast” within us. Perhaps this isn’t the best analogy, then again, all analogies break down eventually, but it serves for what we're saying here and now.
The
“savage beast”
I’m referring to is that aspect of our consciousness that tells we are bad, wrong, not good enough, blah, blah, blah, I think you get the picture. The worst part is that it never, ever, ever shuts up. Time to reach for the relaxing music, yes?
The track below is a sample of meditation music that is available for affordable purchase and download from meditate-on-it.com. The links below the track will take you to the other meditation music samples on the website. Each track has been created specifically with meditation in mind and as such will take the listener into different meditative states according the kind of music it is... Enjoy!
Imagine green fields, a rainy sky and slowly but surely the sun starts peeking through the clouds and warming the cool, wet earth. This is the inspiration for Grace, a fusion of chanting and soft, melodic fingerstyle guitar.
