How can I make music a spiritual experience?

Music invites you to explore the mystery that dances within your soul. Be aware of what types of music "speak to you" and what types of music drain you. Broaden your music life by exploring different forms of music or music from other cultures. Explore the spiritual side of music. You may want to visit a drumming circle, sing in a choir, or take lessons on an instrument you played as a child.

If you have always wanted to sing and have never felt comfortable with your voice, release your internal judgments, have a karaoke night, and sing your heart out. Or put music on in your car that you love and sing along. Like the birds, we are all meant to sing. Singing has a powerful ability to stimulate respiration and circulation, express repressed emotions, and transport you to a higher dimension.

You can make music a spiritual experience through several means. First, listening to favorite music, whether it’s purely symphonic or composed with meaningful lyrics, stirs feelings within us that can provoke a physical and emotional response. Depending on the music that is playing, our entire mood may be elevated as the music resonates within us.

Dancing or moving to music can also be spiritual by way of the rhythmic repetition of the movement. It is in the way that some religious groups and tribes achieve a spiritual enlightenment. Finally, creating your own music, or making music with others, affirms our spirituality by contributing something uniquely individual to the world.