Gentle Water Meditation for Migraines or other Pain
Gentle music and nature sounds can help build resilience, support trauma recovery, and help manage pain. All programs and materials are trauma-informed.
Water meditations include Sounds of Ocean, Rain, and Streams
#1. (0:16:40) Perhaps listen to this meditation first, so you have a sense of it.
#2. (1:21:00) Same as #1, but repeated for one hour, with additional 20 minutes of stream sounds.
The idea is that familiarity and repetition can calm the nervous system.
Notice how it feels to you today.
Two books support these ideas, both science-based approaches to how sound can heal in many ways. I Heard There was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin PhD (2024) and Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Health the Body and Mind by Kulreet Chaudhary, MD.
