Is it listening to music considered meditation??

In my opinion listening to music is equivalent to meditation because it calms the mind releases dopamine and puts you in an over all good mood if the music is positive. So yes music is meditation

Everyone will have a different answer as it is personal. The idea is to look within either through guided mediation or just calming music. Since I do my best meditation just before bed to relax and get a good night sleep. Often the guided meditation puts me asleep. There are many forms of meditation, if it relaxes you then I think the answer is yes but if you feel like dancing I suspect that the answer is no.

Real meditation is hard to explain but there are methods for doing it, so I think it is a practice which takes us to better concentration.

It’s just my personal views that if you want to listen something during the meditation then instead of song you can hear music’s particularly made for meditations. Hope it helps. Thankyou and have a great day.

I would say it depends what the music is and what you do when your listening. If its mellow music and your sitting quietly with a blank mind then yes. If your dancing or singing, then no.

Meditation is about being in a state of thoughtless awareness. You use techniques to train attention and awareness. Focused meditation is used to train attention, where you focus on an object, breath, image, words. Open meditation is used to train awareness, so being present in the here and now or "mindfulness". If music helps you to accomplish these 2 things, then it is a helpful TOOL for meditation, but just listening to music itself is not meditation if it does not incorporate these concepts.

Depends on what stage u r at. Meditation to me is being aware & being in the present moment not in the past or the future. So if u r all the time that way then u r in advanced stage, in that case maybe u don’t need to have a separate 10 mins or so to meditate. Videogames r similar to me, they r like meditation but I still want to be more aware and present hence I still do traditional form of meditation along with stuff like videogames.

Sure, but it depends what you want out of meditating. If you just want to slow down, by all means. For me, I want to grow my self awareness and control, and so, to do that, meditation should be kind of boring so that you observe your mind trying to do other things. This gives you the opportunity to rein your mind back in and to learn focus. If you have similar goals to me and still want to listen to music, consider listening to one or a few songs, rather than all of what Spotify, for example, has to offer.

It depends on the type od music and whether or not you are actually paying attention. By really listening to the notes, focussing all your attention to the lyrics and the emotion, yes listening to music could easily be considered meditative.

It depends on what you are thinking when listening to music. If you are fully concentrated in the music,then yes it is meditation