Music For Meditation

[Peter]

Thanks for your explanation, Gareth.

Very interesting that you both use music almost as opposites. If I understand you both correctly.

You use it as an object of meditation, while Jon uses it as a sort of fertilizer for his meditation.

[Peter]

For anyone interested, I've created a Spotify Playlist from the albums Gareth posted earlier:
http://spoti.fi/1IWts3q

NoticeAndAccept

[JonW]

Good work, NoticeAndAccept.
I'm meditating on the fertiliser analogy.
Cheers,
Jon

[Peter]

Here you go, feller.
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3874
Every one a toe-tapper.
Cheers,
Jon

I also created a Spotify Playlist from most of the tracks that Jon posted:
http://spoti.fi/1IsT741

NoticeAndAccept

[JonW]

That's brilliant.
Excellent work.
A merry Xmas to all.
Jon

[MiM]

Thank you for the lists NoticeAndAccept.

I'm not much of a music listener and tried to listen to Gareth's list earlier, but found most of it having far too much dissonances for me. John's list felt easier to approach - until - I got to Eluvium. I made myself sit through the 5 minutes of "All The Sails", but gosh what an ordeal that was. My body tensed up like a guitar string and I just wanted to jump out of my chair.

I know I am extremely sensitive to background noise, so maybe it would be beneficial for me to deliberately put myself through that, while being conscious about how I respond to it. But I am not sure if I am really ready for it yet. Highly uncomfortable, that was.

[JonW]

Hi MIM,
The forum greatly anticipates your own list of musical recommendations.
Jon

[MiM]

Well, as I said. I am not much of a music listener, so that might take a while

I hope you didn't take my post as criticism against your or Gareth's lists. It was in no way intended as such, merely as a reflection on my own quirky mind, and as possibly interesting for others to see how different people can react differently.

[JonW]

Not at all, MIM.
I have asked other mindfulness teachers why they don't use music in an 8-week course and the consensus seems to be that musical taste is so subjective that it would be nigh on impossible to choose music that everyone gets along with.
Looking at the Spotify list, there's a few tunes I wouldn't include now.
All good things,
Jon

[Gareth]

Vive la difference!