Right now I'm listening David Arkenstone's "Celtic Book of Days" disk. It's new age music.
I'd like to tell my opinion about the music and how it affects your mood and your life.
I listened lots of heavy metal in the past. And I liked evil or depressive music very much - black metal, doom metal for example. I had been listening it for 5 years until I decided to change my life. I was very .... not really evil, but... dark and apathetic. I was like a black cloud, bringing "rain" and heavy atmosphere everywhere I went.
From today's perspective I can tell, that I was growing and cultivating the seeds of low-vibrational energy by listening to such music. Finally, I gave away all my metal or dark CDs, and switched to new age music. And it was hard - old habits die hard you know. From recently I've been trying to listen to new age only (and I succeeded), and I'm thinking of classical music as well.
Anyone, please, help me to choose great Mozart music to start from.
So, I came to several important conclusions:
1) when you listen to music, be aware how it affects you.
What message does it contain? Is it inspiring? Is it calming? Does it create the mood you desire? Does it corresponds with the image of "ideal you" (the person you want to be)?
In other words, evil message and music makes you evil. Calm music makes you calm and balanced. Happy music makes you happy. Which mood or character do you choose? Which plants or seeds of you do you water?
2) you can change yourself, your character with the music you listen.
Read my life story above. When I've decided to grow, to change my life, to raise my vibes and so on, I've decided to put my environtment into alignment with this inner image of better me. And music is a very important part here. Though you can resist such a switch in the beginning (and I did), eventually you'll thank yourself for this.
Marco Polo: Yes, I have the same phenomenon. I think, this happens because the environment of the place influences your perception of the music. Imagine yourself going to concert for example, against listening to the same music from headphones.