Does anyone else use music to enhance their meditative states? My partner and I are in disagreement on this: one of us feel silence is the key to reaching the state of inner peace and dialogue/connection with the spirit ether (or life force, God, what ever you see it as). The other of us feels that music helps to achieve this. From my handle here, perhaps you can guess which is me.
I have always found drum beats to be particularly conducive to connecting with the ether when I am in meditative state. The beat becomes the heart beat of Mother Earth, and it is as if I can feel all of us connecting our heart beat to the beat.
Hi Rhythm, I will have to agree with both you and your partner on this! Whatever works for you as individuals is the right way! Music, Silence, Nature, Prayer!.....What matters is the connection itself. The way you get there is a personnel discovery! love and peace to you all!....kak...
I use music, but turned down so low that you can hardly hear it. I generally use something that has a high timbre sound like windchimes, bells, or finger cymbals. I have meditated without music and was surprised at just how much I missed missed the music.
I do enjoy low playing music. It helps me to relax much easier than compete silence. I also sometimes use a CD of nature sounds (like a stream, whales, the ocean, etc.).
I think meditation is medicine to ones overall being. It helps us gain control over our mind and better diciplines our thoughts. To sit in silence is the truest form of meditation, but it is also hard. Because with music it captivates your mind were silence may allow the mind to roam more freely with thoughts. But that is the purpose of meditation, to become one with everything to the point were there is no you. Because "you" are what everything is. The air ,the tree, the sky , the earth , etc. Peace, love and harmony.
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I listen to music or "sounds" while meditating too. I find it easier to quiet the mind with something else to concentrated on. I have a couple albums by jonathan Goldman that are great, especially one called "Ultimate Om". You might like his "Trance Tara" if you like drums.
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