Bilinçli Farkındalık Temelli Mobil Meditasyon Uygulamaları ve Müzikal Deneyim: Meditopia Örneği

Abstract

Music and meditation offer an immersive experience in human life. The immersive continuity of meditation with music has a long history in meditation practice. Today, in modern urban life, there is an increasing interest in meditation practices that aim to be spiritual, relaxing, focusing, well-being enhancing, or stress reducing. The growing trend toward meditation practices focused on music and sound continues with the heavy use of mindfulness-based mobile meditation apps using technology. At this point, the musical experience created in mobile meditation practices by statically directing the individual to music and sound plays a critical central role. This study aims to highlight the role of soundscape music in Meditopia, a meditation application. In this regard, task-based observation and in-depth interviews were conducted in this study. The interviews were completed with 14 participants-4 male and 10 female-using the Meditopia application for the first time and living in Istanbul were interviewed through a remote video method. The study showed that participants defined music and sound as core elements in their meditation practice.