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Music For Calm
Research shows that music can enhance and improve physical and emotional recovery, reduce stress, improve cognitive functioning, and decrease depression. Read more here.
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Below are some excellent music choices for calming, healing, and reorienting the mind and body:
Max Richter, Voices
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Voices is ten year project that includes strings and voices from around the world (both past and present) reading The Universal Declaration of Human Rights over haunting and inspiring orchestrations. Skip ahead to the "voiceless mix" which includes all of the tracks in their instrumental form. Good for contemplation, reading, and stirring the soul.
Juliana Barwick, Healing Is A Miracle
Healing Is A Miracle is a distinctive meditation on sound, reverb and the voice. Great for meditation, reading, or winding down before sleep.
Ólafur Arnalds, some kind of peace
Warm, sensitive and tender, this mostly instrumental album creates small soundscapes for a variety of moods. It lends to nostalgia, present tense reflections, and dreams for the future, nurturing the heart and mind.
Gia Margaret, Mia Gargaret
Ambient electronic music that weaves loops and patterns with found sounds and introspective tones. Relaxing and calming for moments of winding down, recovery, and appreciating connection.
Entheo, Beyond Oblivion
Refined electronic soundscapes for times when you really need to slow down and drown out the sensory distractions of the world.
Sigur Rós, Liminal Sleep
Using years of catalogued music to create calming flows of sound, Liminal Sleep from Sigur Rós will encourage you to power down and leave space for meditation, renewed energy, and ideally, a path to sleep.