healing songs
Music for recovery
Healing songs are musical pieces believed to promote physical, emotional, or spiritual recovery.
The term spans contexts from indigenous ceremonial chants used in traditional medicine to contemporary therapeutic music.
Some healing songs invoke supernatural aid; others work through calming rhythms or meaningful lyrics: The shaman sang healing songs over the sick child.
In modern wellness culture, the phrase often describes ambient or meditative music marketed for stress relief.
- chantRepetitive rhythmic phrase
- lullabySoothing song for babies
- hymnReligious song of praise
- sacred musicCompositions for worship
- mantraRepeated focus phrase
ritual · soothing · ceremony · drums · prayer · prayer circle · medicine · sacred · voice · vibration · shamanic · Native American · comfort · balm · restoration · incantation · melody · tribal
- oral traditionfolk narratives, campfire tales, epics, oral poetry, storytelling circles
- folk medicinefolk medicine, herbalism, herbal remedies, herbal medicine, herbalist
- gospel musicgospel hymns, gospel quartet, mass choir, gospel choir, spirituals
- hymnsAmazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, Morning Has Broken, hymn, hymnal
- ritual dancessacred dance, ritual dance, tribal dance, devil dance, rain dance
- shamanismshamans, shaman, spirit guide, medicine man, medicine woman