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Playing music for 3-5 minutes clears my head. I’m with Daniel Levitin that music can be pharmaceutical (adjective).

RIP Quincy Jones. "Music was the only thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. my family problems disappeared. I didn't have to search for answers. The answers greater than the bell of any trumpet in my scrawled penciled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant, and cool."

This is why music has a natural mystical quality, and can be used in tandem with a spiritual practice. I've been trying to figure out a way to do this while still retaining my artistic freedom without the constraints of it being necessarily mystical music, ambient or new age, which I don't necessarily want to do all the time.