To be Zen is to live in the moment, to be at peace and to have a profound insight into the oneness of the inner and outer world. Zen Buddhism is part of Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Zazen, which means sitting meditation in Japanese, is based on the teachings of the enlightened Buddha. Zen was originally a Chinese meditation practice that eventually spread to the neighboring country of Japan, where it integrated with Japanese culture of minimalism to develop into today’s Zen. We at Music2relax.com make mind relaxing music to encourage a peaceful mind, body and spirit, enjoy our free Zen meditation music and serene mp3 downloads available only in this website. Read More Relaxing nature sounds have for a long time been associated with good health and wellbeing. There are many people who like the outdoors and to spend time in nature, and a few of us have ever considered why? Lots of us feel an intrinsic pull to nature, like for instance taking long walks in a lush forest, or going camping and fishing etcetera. This makes perfect sense because our minds and bodies are hard wired to sync with nature. We produce music with the purpose for all sentient beings to experience life to the fullest from a place within, aligned with one’s true nature.
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When you listen to Zen meditation music like for instance Chinese flute music with gentle water 
sounds, you are creating a peaceful environment suited for meditation, yoga, relaxation and deep sleep. You create a sacred environment where you can practice mindfulness and Zazen, being aware and mindful of every tone, breath and vibration that fills up the room. Gentle music can be a great help for you to remain in the present and not wander off into mindless mental chatter. Mind relaxing music is made to calm and enhance the awareness of the listener, which makes our sound useful for recreation and spiritual practice. It can also function as a support for people struggling with maintaining concentration during meditation and yoga practice. Our Zen music is mostly instrumental music with oriental elements, including calming Indian meditation music, beautiful Chinese and Japanese instrumental music, using harmonious instruments like soft piano, flute, guitar and harp music. The peaceful outcome of instrumental music is well known, take for instance the relaxing effect we get when listening to Chopin’s world famous nocturnes. A powerful music piece can move us deeply and positively alter our inner world, making us feel great and relaxed. A well-made composition can touch the most intuitive parts of our brain, having a direct and powerful effect on our mental and physical wellbeing. We add binaural beats, that is theta brain waves to improve the mind relaxing music and the (desired) blissful effect. We also incorporate relaxing nature sounds to boost the serene effect of the music, like calming ocean sounds, peaceful bamboo water fountains, cascading waterfalls and soothing rain sounds to our Zen meditation music. We believe that well composed music for meditation is universal and transcends language and cultural barriers, that is why it is so popularly used for recreation and healing around the world.
Follow these 10 simple steps to reach a peaceful Zen mind:
- Live in the now and let go of the past: Do not dwell on what has happened in the past, it is gone and cannot be changed. The future has not happened yet, so any expectation is just thought projecting itself. The only time that truly exists is right now!
- Live with no fear: Live your life with as little fear as possible and make decisions based on what you should do. Do not make fear-based decisions but rather push yourself to do things that scare you and embrace new challenges every day.
- Anger management: Anger only hurts the person that feels the emotion, not the person it is aimed towards. In order to be Zen, release all of the anger that is built up inside you and practice forgiveness instead.
- Do less and de-stress: A complicated hectic life is not a peaceful one, so if you need more peace in your life you need to give up some unnecessary responsibilities that are weighing you down and stressing you out. Simplify your life so that it reflects who you really are and what you really want. A great way to unwind and letting go of one’s worries is to play mind relaxing music regularly.
- Share your happiness: There is great happiness to be found in making other people feel good, so put yourself in a Zen mood by smiling and being kind to those around you.
- Do not get attached: Money and materialistic items do not serve to bring us happiness or satisfaction, they are mere distractions from what really matters in life.
- Take breaks: Give yourself a Zen moment at some stage during the day by taking some time for yourself to do what you enjoy or relaxes you. A Zen moment could be as simple as having a nice cup of tea, just make sure to appreciate it more than usual. During short daily breaks for resting and napping you can listen to Zen meditation music in the background for a more restful time.
- Love full-heartedly: Remind your loved ones that you are there for them and that you love them. Live your life with an open loving heart. Once you are open to the idea and prospect of love, you will find that it will also be open to you.
- Simple living: Let go of unnecessary material things, only hold onto what truly enrich your life and fill you with joy. Be minimalistic in turns of living.
- What you start you should finish: Do everything with conviction and finish what you start, or if not at least have the courage to decide that something is not working out so that you can put an end to it.
A better understanding of the self is achieved through Zazen. That is, through meditation you become more aware of yourself and thus more receptive to the insights that arises. A new sense of relaxation and inner peace can be derived from Zen meditation. The practice itself promotes a clear mind and improves concentration. You will by discovering your inner self be able to live a balanced and harmonious life. By developing a sense of detachment, you will come to accept that many of your unpleasant emotional reactions are merely sensations created by your thoughts. The emphasis on self-awareness will help you to live in the present ‘the now’. When the mind is in the moment, it becomes keenly alert. A great benefit of practicing Zen is that the natural healing ability of the body is greatly enhanced when you are mentally and physically relaxed. Therefore, mind relaxing music can assist the body into releasing its healing powers. Studies have shown an improved healing process on patients that listened to Zen meditation music before, during and after surgery. The vascular health of those who regularly played such music was greatly improved. The heart was strengthened and the patients suffering from heart disease recovered much quicker because of the endorphin release. Peaceful calming music also positively affects and stabilizes the heartbeat, pulse rate and blood pressure.
What are the greatest obstacles to be Zen and to have inner peace? Well most of us would say our overactive busy minds can be a big hindrance and ambitious career and private life plans are other big hindrances. Being consciously aware is paramount to how you relate to your mind. You are that which is aware of your mind. Meaning if you are unaware then you are more likely to engage in intrusive or negative thoughts and get lost in unproductive downward-spiraling thinking. If, however, you can be aware enough to observe your thoughts then it creates some space between you and the thought, and you simultaneously experience the inner calm of your conscious awareness, thus experiencing a Zen moment. Many of us get frustrated when random thoughts bubble up during meditation. The average person has for instance between 40,000 to 100,000 thoughts every day. So, improving your relationship with your mind is paramount for peacefulness. To watch and being totally aware with whatever thought that passes through your conscious awareness, is possible with Zen practice and with the help of mind relaxing music. Learning to let your thoughts come and go from a more neutral viewpoint can be a very liberating experience. Being at peace with your mind makes it feasible to maintain a state of Zen, even when negative thoughts are occurring. There are no secrets that relaxation, meditation and uninterrupted deep sleep is good for us as discussed above. At Music 2 Relax you can play free Zen meditation music as much as you like and download Zen music mp3 of the highest quality, peaceful sounds that encourage mind body relaxation.
