You know that meditation in its multiple forms and techniques has beneficial results on living a more productive and healthier life.
Taking into account the growing evidence of how meditation really does help people who practice it the next step for you is to think about for meditation is what enhances it – and most would conclude it would be the right music.
According to http://www.wildmind.org, music for meditation increases the mind’s willingness to broaden it’s a range of experience. When you listen to music for meditation, you are actually charging the mind with powerful concentration of willful energy not yet released in the physical activity of the body. Music for this exercise would be a trance-like or soothing combination of harmonic tones that are composed to help increase and elongate the meditator’s awareness of the present.
As meditation learned and done, you already know that to accelerate the experience is not really the goal – it is to transition from repetitive common thoughts of survival, transferring awareness into the visual and frontal areas of the brain with accompanying positive imagery and wholeness. It is the one time during a hectic day you are giving yourself the mental space where health and well-being are contemplated and become part of your primary objectives.
Most people who meditate do not have any lack of experience listening to music. In fact the powerful surges of deep meditation that many experience do in fact occur when listening to music or permitting some external ambient sensations such as that provided by the sounds of waves and seagulls, or gentle winds fluttering the leaves in a forest – all helpful for enriching the moment.
Listen to music while meditating is not an overtly strange suggestion. Learning to synchronize the music with your meditation will do you a lot of good, and needs to be optimized by trial and error. If it does not work the first time, try a different piece of music. Also now that more studies and evidence behind the benefits meditation are published and readily available, it would be a good idea to get refreshed by some scientific data discussed in the following recent reports. These efforts will make the simple steps of selecting the right music for meditation more worthwhile:
- Mindfulness meditation lowers stress hormone cortisol: study
Making an effort to be mindful, whether by practicing meditation and breathing techniques or focusing on the present moment, can lower the levels of stress hormone in the body, a new UC Davis study found. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/mindfulness-meditation-lowers-stress-hormone-cortisol-study-article-1.1305502#ixzz2W6YaDEBI - Mindfulness Meditation Could Lower Levels Of Cortisol, The Stress Hormone
Even more research is drawing a clear link between mindfulness meditation and lowered stress.
A new study in the journal Health Psychology shows an association between increased mindfulness and decreased levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/31/mindfulness-meditation-cortisol-stress-levels_n_2965197.html - Meditation lowers stress and supports forgiveness among college students: a randomized controlled trial.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18400671