Music & Meditation

Meditation and music for me co inhabit my life. The act of creating music aids me to let go of troubles and to act more whole. Music also helps me meditate and keep myself grounded. I find that I loose my sense of self in the sounds and drift into a different realm with the right music. Gentle calming it helps me to create the stillness of the mind. Upbeat driven it helps me focus on tasks that require doing and to get the energy to do them.

But music by itself is a power that fills space with sound and can give emotion to another. It helps us share our deepest selves safely because even though it touches the deepest emotions within us it still is not exactly the same for another as it is for you or me. This difference creates a needed spiritual distance that we are subconsciously aware of so that we can share deep hidden emotions without linking ourselves into another’s feelings. This unbound sharing is the ideal. It is what we want from a partner, and a love for life.

When I create music I create sounds to trigger emotions in others. When I write songs I try to express myself and be a mirror to another, and when I write larger works I try to touch my soul and in so doing the souls of others. What we feel as people we all feel. There is not a single emotion that is totally unique to one individual. Yet how we feel these things is unique to each and every one of us. So while we have commonality we also have uniqueness and this uniqueness is expressed through music in a very ideal way.

Can we listen and not feel. I doubt it very much even if the feeling is ‘I hate that song turn it off.’

So what music is appropriate to meditation and to aid in spiritual growth depends on the individual. Some love flutes and gentle strings, while others like the piano or organ and others chanting voices. There is no wrong music just your music.