In modern life that can feel loud, crowded and relentless – sometimes the most helpful way to reset is to listen to healing relaxing music, if you can’t find silence. From classical voices to soft harmonies to spiritual chants, all invite you to slow down and be in the moment.
Healing music is proven to help slow the breathing and heart rate, and soften muscles and shoulders. And best of all, good music is one of the few things that can stop a racing mind, to restore a balanced state of mind. Silence is also good. But if you find that your mind just starts going into ‘monkey chatter’, then try some healing music instead.
We are not talking about weird ‘New Age’ music here. This is real healing music, and you can choose styles, depending on your faith or style preference. Whichever style you choose, calming music helps to enhance alpha brain waves, which are linked to prayer and meditative states.
The complete opposite of blaring piped music in shops and restaurants, calming spiritual music calms you down. From nature sounds (like falling rain) to Gregorian chants, you are sure to find some niche to suit. They can help every situation from panic attacks to heartbreak to grief.
Ali Maya: Music to Heal Your Heart
Ali Maya is a singer-songwriter who weaves ancient wisdom with fresh, heartfelt melodies. Her work centres on healing through sound. The songs draw on prayer, nature, and remembrance. Listen to her music for free or purchase her releases. And even download 23 hours of her specially chosen healing music (ideal for yoga!)
Each song carries a prayer for healing, with themes of nature, divine love, water and renewal. Listeners describe a sense of inner peace and gentle strength after listening. The music feels like a hand on the heart, steady and kind. Healer of My Heart is a beautiful song to stay with you.
Tara Divina: Healing and Mystical Music
What if a song could feel like a safe place ? Tara Divina writes and sings with that kind of intention. Her music blends mystic imagery, tender honesty, and luminous vocals to create music that holds you while you soften. It is music for deep rest, brave release, and quiet joy.
Listeners describe her work as medicine, a steady light in hard times, and a doorway to inner calm. Her music comes from a long practice of meditation and healing, so the songs carry a lived wisdom. Download and buy tracks at Bandcamp.
Christian Healing Spiritual Music
Ben Dunnett is a pianist who offers nice albums that resonate with anyone’s Christian faith. You may like to listen to his compositions, alongside reading beautiful Bibles illustrated by his wife!
Pray As You Go is a nice ‘audio sanctuary’ run by Ignatian Catholics. Not only can you listen to a relaxing 10-minute reading each morning or evening, but each one is preceded by nice music, which you can also read about and download at the website. Whoever runs this site has got really good taste in music!
Music thanatologists are specially trained musicians (often using the harp and voice) that don’t ‘entertain’, but instead stay by someone’s bedside, who if wishing music, kind of ‘sends them peacefully out of this world’. The harp is used as it’s a very portable and gentle instrument, which has resonance to end with a gentle taper, towards restful silence.
Harpists may like to know of these vegan harp strings, not made with animal gut.
