This is a beautiful meditation practice and can be done anywhere you find peaceful. You can use any music that you feel comfortable listening to, some like to use traditional music with chanting or nature sounds. If you’re outside the sounds around you may create its own music. The music you choice should help you focus and relax. This meditation helps with stress, anxiety, lengthening your attention span and feeling the music. Music can even trigger a feel-good chemical in the brain.
This meditation can be done sitting or laying as long as you’re comfortable. Turn on your music. Notice all of the sounds you can hear in the music and if there are any sounds you have not noticed before. Visualise each note in the music, inhale taking the music into the body. Feel the vibrations of each note. How does the music make you feel? If thoughts or feelings are coming through acknowledge them, why do you feel this way? Why have these thoughts come to mind? Allow the music to flow through you and as you exhale let go of your thoughts or feelings. Begin to feel the body relaxing. Allow your breath to flow naturally.
Feel yourself becoming one with the music, visualise the music to creating a bubble around you. Allow the music to take you on a journey, to tell you a story. Stay here for as long as you want to. Stay in the moment and If you are in a clear space let the music begin to move the body, you can stand if you feel you want to. Let the body feel free, let the music lead you, try not to think about how to move but just allow it to happen. This may take a few practices. Notice how the body moves. When you feel it’s time to stop moving stay still and notice your breath. Is there a change in your heart rate or body temperature? Now turn off the music and enjoy the silence and stillness. Allow your mind to clear.
“Yoga is like music, the rhythm of your body, the melody of your mind and the harmony of your soul create the symphony of life.”
B.K.S Iyengar
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