When your heart is open to music, you are open to all of the higher vibrations in the Universe. When you listen to music without opening your heart, you open yourself to a vulnerability to lower vibrations. This is one reason that people who truly feel moved by the music they listen to can often more easily open their hearts than those who are not touched by music.
Now we know that some of you are wondering about the new kind of music that the young ones are listening to. We would tell you that many of them are making themselves vulnerable to undesirable vibrations because of their music. But many adults would throw out all types of the music the young folks enjoy even though not all are harmful. The kind of music that makes them vulnerable has a message of lower vibration, frustration and anger and uses certain beats to move this message deeply into the young person’s psyche. They do not realize that this is happening but it is manifest in them in a surliness and frustration that can turn to anger against those in authority. Some of this music disturbs the brain waves of the youth so that they are vulnerable to the next encounter they have with someone else, whether that encounter is good or disturbing.
To recognize the effect of the music, listen for yourself and notice how you feel in your heart center of energy. If you are disturbed, then the music is probably not the healthiest vibration. Assess, though, whether your reaction is a dislike of the music or a genuine vibrational disturbance. Then play some music that stirs you in a pleasant way and compare how you feel after that experience. Do not use this as a way to try to change the young people in your life. Rather, try to understand what they are experiencing and why they seek that experience.
Now try to find other examples of both types of music and notice how you feel with each. A particular piece of music from a particular genre might have a different effect on you than another piece of music from the same genre. Make a list of pieces of music that feel uplifting to you and create a playlist that you can use when you wish to feel uplifted. Make other lists of music that have different effects on your own vibrational level – those that energize you, those that make you feel peaceful and serene, those that assist you in meditation, those that help you think through problems clearly. There are many ways that music can affect you and the same piece of music might fall on several of your lists.
If you have a young person in your life, take time to listen to some of their music with them. Ask them why they like a particular piece, how it makes them feel. Share with them how you feel when you hear it, not to criticize or say that they are wrong for we want you to honor their honest feelings, but to demonstrate that different people can react differently to the same stimulus. Then share some of the music from your list with them and ask them how they feel. Remember to focus on the heart center. Share how you feel when you are in the vibration of that music. Make sure to use this opportunity to have an experience of sharing differences without criticism on either side.
This is a good exercise to do with a partner or loved one as a practice of sharing differences without criticism. You might find several similar reactions and you might be surprised by differing reactions, even widely differing reactions. Again, make sure that this is a sharing and that neither party is trying to influence the other. Notice if there are compromises that can be reached if the two parties choices are very different. Dinner music, for example, can be something chosen together to relax and aid digestion while each can listen to their particular preferences in their own cars.
Enjoy group experiences of music so that the heart centers of many can become connected in that vibration. Concerts are so popular because many people are opening their hearts to others and enjoying the connections. Noticing how music makes one feel is a part of Conscious Living. We urge you to pay attention to the energy vibrations that you resonate with as a part of your growth in Consciousness.
And so it is.
Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Conscious Listening
February 9, 2010 — RosemaryMusic. Interesting topic for the Mystic Message. I must admit that I was wondering where that message would go with respect to what the kids listen to. I guess my prejudices were popping up.
But how wonderful to use music as a springboard to discussion and sharing with others in our life! All of Life is about energy and vibration. The foods we eat, the colors we wear, whether we are feeling ‘up’ or ‘down’ are all relating to our energy fields and the vibrations in them. Quantum Physics is telling us a lot about our environments from a vibrational standpoint. I was a Chemistry major for a bit in college [couldn’t stand Chem Lab so ended up in Math – no labs!] and I studied the ‘new’ information available about atoms and particles like protons and electrons. The information that has since been discovered [it’s been a lot of years!] gives us a much greater understanding of energy and the properties of atoms, including the particles smaller than protons and electrons. And Quantum Physics tells us a lot about the effect of the vibration of our thoughts on the rest of the Universe around us.
When we start to understand energy, and one doesn’t need to be an expert in Quantum Physics to do so, we begin to see what effects different vibrations can have on the people and the spaces around us. Have you ever walked into a room and felt the vibration of anger even though the occupants turn to you with smiles on their faces? Can’t you feel that they were just fighting but have put on a face for you that doesn’t match their internal vibrational energy? Now think about music and how you feel in a room that has had lovely high-vibrational music playing in it for awhile, classical or relaxing jazz or calming new age music. How does it feel to walk into that room? Have you ever walked into a bar with loud music that does not appeal to you playing over big speakers, with the occupants shouting to be heard over the music, bouncing off hard surfaces? Doesn’t that feel a bit jarring? Contrast that with the quiet music of calming vibrations in a fabric-filled room in a restaurant designed to encourage you to relax and dine at a leisurely pace – how does that feel?
At our house, we often leave relaxing music playing when we go out so that the energy will feel calm when we return. This also helps the pets left in the house to relax while we are gone. Sometimes when I have cleaning to do or organizing or some activity that requires me to be upbeat and energetic I’ll put on Golden Oldies that I used to dance to [many years ago when they weren’t Oldies!] This energizes me into action. The music I choose to listen to in the car is related to how I feel and what I need from the music. It might be the 60s station on satellite radio, might be kirtan chants on CDs, or the 40s station to remind me of my Dad who played in a big band in the 30s-40s.
Notice how you use music and how you could use music if you were choosing consciously. Pay attention to the music choices that others around you are making, giving you a hint of how they are feeling or what they are, possibly unconsciously, needing from the energy of the music. You might learn something about them that they would not verbalize or might not know themselves.
Conscious Living requires that we be aware and conscious of all aspects of our lives, even music!