New Age Practices: Rejuvenate Your Mind, Body and Soul with Relaxation Music
Reiki music in the New Age religion is a type of self-soothing relaxation music that eases ones mind. According to those in New Age it is a Japanese stress reducer and is considered a source of distance healing. Why do those who practice New Age describe it as relaxation music? The person who practices in reiki music performs a ritual that helps the person focus who is receiving the relaxation on music.
The whole idea behind reiki music is to think of it in the new age term that it is life force energy. When we become not right or unwell energy is blocked. You rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul with this relaxation music as you unblock the positive energy and allow the negative energy to flow away.
The way in which this relaxation music is created is by using different styles. The styles used in new age relaxation music are usually modal, consonant, or a drone bass. To create the hypnotic feeling the melodies are usually then repetitive. Nature sounds are usually mixed in the new age relaxation music. They use acoustic forms as well as electric forms. Vocals in new age music don’t happen very often.
What types of instruments are used in new age music? There is a wide variety of instruments that are used. These instruments include: piano, synthesizer, sampler, sequencer, computer, strings, found songs, folk and ethnic instruments, acoustic guitar, flutes, harps, sitar, tamboura, tabla, and the organ. Notice that only a selected few are of your most well noted and most well known instruments are used.
When looking for the healing and soothing music, you must remember one thing about new age music. There isn’t just one style. There are many different genres. The main genres that new age music is classified under are as follows: classical, electronic, musique concrete, progressive rock, psychedelic, world music, krautrock, avant garden, traditional folk, ambient, and minimalism.
If they do have vocals in them they usually have a bit of nature noise in the background. They are also mixed with other music of the world. Some of these are: Sanskrit, Tibetan, or more of a Native American influenced style of vocals.
Using these techniques, those of the new age create an atmosphere that allows one to exit out of their bodies and become rejuvenated to the sense that the positive energies flow once again through their veins. This calms those of the new age practices down in body, mind, and spirit and allows them to correctly connect them with it.