During certain aspects of your meditation routine you will need to play meditation music that helps alter your brainwaves and allows you to slip into a deep relaxing state. The types of meditation music preferred varies among students and teachers of meditation. The only underlying theme is that the meditation music has certain beats per minute to help change your perception.
Like writers who find inspiration in the music they listen to, the same can be achieved by the meditation student. Mediation Music is not limited to what others feel is the perfect piece to achieve your goal.
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Meditation music should have one element within it no matter what genre you prefer and this element is called ‘binaural beats’. Binaural beats are musical beats that cycle through the song having the same note throughout but are slightly off or out of tune with the rest of the composition. These beats are what you can train your mind to listen for and the better you become at doing this, the easier it will be to follow the beats and let your mind slip into a meditative state.
It is a form of ‘brainwave entrapment’ and when it comes to meditation music as an aid in self meditation, it becomes a focus for the mind. Binaural beats help slow your brain down from a waking state – or Beta state – to a state of very relaxed consciousness – the Alpha state. People who have mastered meditation can go into the even deeper Theta state which borders on being drowsy or even sleeping without being aware of it when they hear to the right meditation music.
