Music can quiet our minds and open our hearts, and the right music can help us meditate more deeply. But what kind of music is that? By experimenting with different songs while meditating you can see whether a song makes you feel sleepy – more left sided – or disturbs or excites your mind – more right sided – or, ideally, takes you deeper into thoughtless meditation.
Western classical music, especially Mozart or Bach, works great for relaxation but the gold standard for meditation is Indian classical music with a harmonic system designed to elevate the spirit in meditation and give joy rather than thoughts and reactions. The music below all works well for meditation.
All the musicians listed below make music easy to meditate to and can be found on youtube.
Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute)
Rakesh Chaurasia (flute)
Ali Akbhar Khan (sarod)
Bhajan Sopori (santoor)
Shiv Kumar Sharma (santoor)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (slide guitar)
Dr Rajam (violin)
Zakir Hussain (tabla)
Bismillah Khan (shehnai)
Happy meditating!