New Age music and health?

Question

For those of you that believe in the health benefits from listening to new age music, what is the best type that I can get. The second question is, is it just a matter of believing it promotes health or is it proven to give health benefits?

I'm sick and I'm willing to try it in addition to the regular remedies.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here are a few of my favorites:

Almost any artist under the Windham Hill label.
Acoustic Alchemy
Most of the Cafe del Mar series
Chris Spheeris
Craig Chaquico
Dancing Fantasy
Cusco's "Mystic Island" and "Apurimac" albums
David Arkenstone
David Lanz (plays beautiful piano)
Don Harriss (wonderful synthesizer music)
Enigma (already mentioned above) "A Posteriori" is an absolutely incredible album
George Winston (huge talent)
John Tesh ("The Games" is awesome)
Kitaro (most interesting fellow)
Mannheim Steamroller
Mark Isham
Nightnoise
Oystein Sevag (eclectic)
Peter White (quite a guitarist)
Soul Ballet
Steve Haun
Steve Stevens' "Flamenco A Go Go"
The Rippingtons (more jazz flavor)
And, of course, Yanni

Almost forgot... Palomino Duck's "Free Flight" another excellent album.

These ought to get you off to a good start.

Believing is everything. If I didn't believe I would conquer depression, I wouldn't have.... it's that simple.

Perhaps if you shared your ailment, I could offer more. I'm currently battling fibromyalgia. I've controlled my diabetes about as well as a person can. All without the help of doctors. They're pretty useless when it comes to "uncurable" diseases.

There's one thing that's troubling me in your post. You have doubts. Don't "try it"... just DO it. The mind is an incredible healer. If you need help believing you can overcome your malady, get Dr. David Burns' book, "The Feeling Good Handbook". In it, you will find all the help you need to get your mind pulling in the right direction. It's aimed at such ailments as depression and anxiety, but I've found it's methods useful for almost anything... including fibromyalgia which isn't supposed to be curable. I refuse to accept that.

"You can never know too much when it comes to your health" Mr. Peachy®

If you don't believe, it probably will never happen.
If you do believe, it probably will.

Answer 2

This is a hard question to answer, but I have a lot of familiarity in the subject.
The simple answer is as follows:
Music/Sound healing should not be used as a substitute for other health treatment practices. It can get results sometimes, but in terms of the various alternative health practices that exist, it's really inconsitent. However, there are certain types of music (ie. death metal) that have a "anti health effect." While the positive music is not gaurenteed to cure you, the negative will make you sicker, and hence should be avoided. Placebos are probably more important here than the actual music you listen to if it's your healing approach, but as I said soley using music for healing is silly.
If you ever get a chance to read the book the hidden messages in water, it's a decent way to explain this (although it's not the full picture).

Complicated answer;
A lot of cultures have sound healing practices. Most of them are predicated on the fact that your organs and energy centers have resonance frequencies that will activate them, and the healing sounds are designed to do that. I've done a few projects and reports on this, and the main conclusions I came to were
a) they do work, the previously described theory is going on but
b) theres a huge varition in quality and ability of the practicitoners.
I'm a super auditorial music person (to the point I often judge a girls attractiveness off how she sounds rather than how she looks), and I listen to a significantly above average ammount of music (along with doing energy work). At some point I noticed that there was certain music I really liked (even though they were in different genres no functional similarities etc), and realized that I didn't like the song but rather how they made me feel, and over time realized that feeling was due to how energy fields were being activated.
I've noticed a few new age music artists that had music which tended to activate that feeling (although by no means all). My guess is that would be what you're looking for.
Anyhow here are the artists;
Enigma (most of them did it, but this guy has done so much stuff so I don't want to comment individually).
Bel Canto (it really varies song to song though)
Deep forest (everything on their first CD deep forest along with bohemian ballett, and barnads awakening pt2).

Hope that helps, I gave you the best answer I could!
*if you want to try a dif angel, shpongle might work too, but it's not exactly new age music.

Answer 3

Depression: the Black Plague of our age. I believe you, I'm so unhappy that I not often have motivation to do so much of whatever. I firmly consider, even though, that the important thing to combatting melancholy is doing stuff. Doesn't topic what you are doing, quite, simply discover anything to do and do it. I'm in no way as unhappy as whilst I'm on my own in my room, considering how unhappy I am.

Answer 4

In addition to the music Mr. Peachy suggests, I would like to add my personal favorite, Suzanne Ciani. Her early works are the best: http://www.sevwave.com/