冥想放松（可以看作是一種高級(jí)的打盹方式）。在NewAge風(fēng)行的今日，冥想成為New Agers實(shí)踐的一種重要方式，同時(shí)也產(chǎn)生了配合這種方式的音樂(lè)。在New Age音樂(lè)中就有很多的音樂(lè)就是專(zhuān)門(mén)為冥想活動(dòng)而做的（有時(shí)是不太適合當(dāng)音樂(lè)來(lái)聽(tīng)的）。這種音樂(lè)一般沒(méi)有明顯的節(jié)奏，音樂(lè)上表現(xiàn)地平滑、流暢，使聽(tīng)者能夠放松身心，有時(shí)音樂(lè)家們也會(huì)借助一些自然的聲效來(lái)加強(qiáng)意境的渲染。

Arguably, all music can be said to be useful for Meditation. Thestyles, cadences, arpeggiations, and rhythms of meditational music forcontemplative practices is characteristically different than most other formsof music. Generally speaking, the music is relaxing, lacking definitiverhythms. Meditation and music have been relational partners for centuries.Mellow, repetitive, and redundant sequences of smoothly contoured melodic lineshelp to relax the mind as arrhythmic tempos do not distract the listener into abeat but rather a flow. Harmonies are often absent unless one accepts themusical nuance of imitation as structured harmony. Meditation music can alsoinclude recordings of sounds in the "natural" world: rainfall,waterfalls, birds, insects, whales, and others, separately and in syntheticcombination.