| During certain aspects of your meditation routine you | | | | the Alpha state. People who have mastered |
| will need to play meditation music that helps alter | | | | meditation can go into the even deeper Theta state |
| your brainwaves and allows you to slip into a deep | | | | which borders on being drowsy or even sleeping |
| relaxing state. The type of meditation music | | | | without being aware of it when they listen to the |
| preferred varies among students and teachers of | | | | right meditation music. |
| meditation. The only underlying theme is that the | | | | So how do certain musical genres work as mediation |
| meditation music has certain beats per minute to help | | | | music? Let's take a look. |
| change your perception. | | | | Meditation CDs - these compact disks are designed |
| At one point in time music from the Baroque era was | | | | to provide you with soothing music that is |
| considered the perfect meditation music, but if you | | | | purposefully equipped with binaural beats to take you |
| do not like the music you are listening to while trying | | | | into a meditative state. Some people find this type |
| to achieve that perfect state of consciousness you | | | | of meditation music very relaxing and often go to |
| will only hinder getting into your meditative state | | | | sleep to it. |
| instead of enhance it. What does this mean for you | | | | Classical music - while once classical music was a |
| then? It means that you are going to have to try | | | | soothing genre, many people hear pieces that are |
| meditating to a wide variety of music in order to find | | | | now associated with movies, television shows, |
| the mediation music that works for you. | | | | commercials, or as 'elevator music'. If you truly enjoy |
| Like writers who find inspiration in the music they | | | | and appreciate classical music and can focus beyond |
| listen to, the same can be achieved by the | | | | these associations, it is still very good meditation |
| meditation student. Mediation music is not limited to | | | | music. |
| what others feel is the perfect piece to achieve your | | | | Ethnic music - many people love to use these types |
| goal. Many people who meditate to music enjoy | | | | of compact disks as mediation music because of the |
| listening to Jazz, Gregorian chanting, nature sounds, | | | | syncopated rhythms and unique vocal |
| guitar pieces, Indian sitar music, and even good old | | | | accompaniment. African tribal music provides the |
| fashioned rock and roll. We are all individuals with | | | | binaural beats needed to slip into a meditative state |
| tastes that range from one end of the long musical | | | | while Native American music provides the same with |
| spectrum to the other. Because we all find certain | | | | the chanting of a specific language. With interesting |
| music to be more appealing to us than others, it is | | | | instruments such as the Indian sitar or the Oriental |
| imperative that we find that perfect combination of | | | | guitar, ethnic music can provide you with meditation |
| meditation music for our studies. | | | | music that is more flavorful yet relaxing. |
| Meditation music should have one element within it no | | | | Heavy metal music - Believe it or not, many people |
| matter what genre you prefer and this element is | | | | go into a meditative trance when they listen to |
| called 'binaural beats'. Binaural beats are musical beats | | | | heavy metal music. Heavy metal is filled with very |
| that cycle through the song that are the same note | | | | distinct sounds and binaural beats that stand out over |
| throughout but are slightly off or out of tune with | | | | the grinding guitar solos and screaming lyrics. Some |
| the rest of the composition. These beats are what | | | | even claim they enjoy listening to this music as much |
| you train your mind to listen for and the better you | | | | for the almost meditative state they slip into as for |
| become at doing this, the easier it will be to follow | | | | the content. You don't need to blare it at 1,000 |
| the beats and let your mind slip into a meditative | | | | decibels to get the right effect, but calm listening to |
| state. | | | | heavy metal as mediation music actually has some |
| It is a form of 'brainwave entrapment' and when it | | | | unique effects that make it easy to meditate to. It |
| comes to meditation music as an aid in meditation it | | | | should not be overlooked as mediation music. |
| becomes a focus for the mind. Binaural beats help | | | | In general, the most popularly used type of |
| slow your brain down from a waking state - or Beta | | | | meditation music are meditation CDs. |
| state - to a state of very relaxed consciousness - | | | | |