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top relaxation music picks

Healing music often sounds like the lulling tunes you might hear in yoga class or while you’re at the massage therapist. Often it has the enveloping but blend-into-the-background sound of ambient music. Some pieces are instrumental, others include vocals. You may hear keyboards, strings, crashing waves, crickets, Eastern-influenced chants, or a Tibetan “singing” bowl that produces a humming tone when it is tapped or rubbed.

Click here, or above, for an iTunes playlist of relaxing sounds.
Below is a sampling of compact discs, all of which can be found in most stores that sell music:

Meditations and Music for Sound Healing by Dr. Mitchell Gaynor; $19.98. A two-CD set with music and guided meditations that Gaynor uses with patients.

Music for Healing and Unwinding by Steven Halpern and Dr. Joseph Nagler; $19.98. A two-CD set with keyboard compositions by Halpern, a well-known New Age musician, and Nagler, a music therapist.

Unwind with Alpha Brainwave Pulses by Silvia Nakkach and Dr. Jeffrey Thompson; $11.98. Ethereal ambient music embedded with alpha brain wave pulses designed to pull the brain into a relaxed state.

Frequencies: Sounds of Healing by Jonathan Goldman; $16.98. A sampling of healing sounds and vibrations, from sacred chants and mantras to thunder and tuning forks.

Hearts on Fire by Suzin Green; $14.99. Sacred songs and chants by a vocalist specializing in American kirtan, which is Indian-influenced mantra singing.