Forget Meditation, Listen to Music.

About this episode

The episode discusses the limitations of meditation in the modern world and suggests that music may be a more effective means of regaining control over our minds.

Forget Meditation, Listen to Music . Meditating isn’t effective enough anymore. As people become more addicted to their phones, society’s obsession with mindfulness meditation grows. I think that’s because the collective unconscious knows that we desperately need to take back control of our minds, as our lives are being wasted through endless hours of meaningless scrolling. There are only 24 hours in a day, and despite the fact that most people (including myself) don’t sleep nearly enough, we do still sleep some of those 24 hours away. Then the remaining time each day seems to disappear in a blur, and suddenly it’s bedtime again. So we close our eyes. The alarm rings. And we do it all again. I think it’s safe to say that no kid dreams of spending their one precious life this way. The people who viscerally sense this horror of modernity usually end up turning to some form of meditation as a path back to reality. And for the record, I meditate every morning, so I encourage this practice. However, I’ve come to think that meditation alone is no longer a powerful enough method in this modern world. Subscribe to get the latest posts in your inbox . It’s easy for us to forget that…

People in this episode

Host: Ray Harmony

Topics covered

• meditation
• music
• mindfulness
• modern life
• mental health

Keywords

• meditation
• music
• mindfulness
• mental health
• modern life
• social media
• distraction

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