Music for Mindfulness
Sanjay Arora
Employability Coach | Managing Director at Evolvere Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Music and mindfulness go hand in hand with each other. There has been a long history of music being used to enhance people's creative expressions by aiding them in finding their well of aesthetic energy. This can be accomplished because music allows artists and musicians alike to contemplate and surrender completely to the complexities and subtleties of life. By listening to the tunes of beautifully crafted music, we can become mindful of our own world, of what's happening to our bodies, and what's going on in our minds. In this article, you'll be taken through a tour of how you can use music to meditate and achieve peace within you. By allowing music to help us achieve mindfulness, we can use it to purge ourselves of our problems like stress, mental health issues, relationship problems, heartbreak, etc. Meditation using music or simply called music meditation can be intensely therapeutic and relaxing, even more so than meditation alone. Meditating with music can fill in the gaps in your line of thought and assist you in accepting everything as it arrives in your head and on your body.
Also, music meditation is a perfect way for people who are making their first venture into meditation. Though attaining the 'utopia' of mindfulness isn't really a tough task, many people often get distracted easily. Therefore, the whole mission eventually ends on the unfortunate note of people raising their white flags within a short span of time. Music meditation is a relaxing method for achieving mindfulness as there have been many scientific studies proving its soothing qualities.
In addition, blood pressure has been proven to take a dip, thus preventing the onset of many life-threatening ailments. All these reasons should be enough to get you commencing on your meditation sojourn or if you've already started, to keep going forward and be steadfast. However, the music that you can use for music meditation isn't necessarily limited to soft melodies and harmonies of classical music. In fact, the grand aspect of music meditation is its egalitarian nature; every genre of music can lead you towards the goal of mindfulness.
The only constant you need is that the music should be your type, your genre. This preference helps in customizing the seemingly arduous process of meditation and turns it into something that's yours and yours alone. Therefore, it isn't something that you learned from somewhere on the internet, it becomes your ritual. Some extra things that you can add are choosing a position that you're comfortable in. It's not about some fancy posture that you saw in some fancy yoga class. Also, you should try to put all your mind on the music and see how your music is effecting changes in your body. Focus on how your emotions are evolving, morphing, and dissipating inside your own mind while listening to music. Basically, you need to put the prime focus on how you're feeling.
Music meditation can be a particularly therapeutic experience, given that you put in the effort and hard work in the meditation. It's crucial to remember that the entire process should be your own, your favorite music, your own emotions. And that should become your mantra.