The Practice--Mindful Practice with Nostalgic Music
When I first started researching music for healing and consciousness purposes, I worried too much about the frequency or vibration of music. While there are still some musical styles I still find offensive to my nervous and immune systems, I felt like I was limiting myself when it came to popular music genres, such as 1960s pop. While research has revealed that the rock n’ roll beat has ill effects on the heart because of the way our bodies entrain to dominant beats and rhythms, on emotional and mental levels, listening to rock or pop music from our past brings a different type of healing. I thought I could live in an ivory tower of Bach and Mozart along with field recordings, but then I started slipping on visits to YouTube and I had to hear music from my early childhood, my teen and young adult years. When I listened to these songs, memories were triggered and I could work through the hardships from those times in my life, clear garbage out of m...