People often ask why are all the meditation/restful pieces at 66 beats per minute?

This is the about the average slow, at rest, meditative heartbeat. When we are anxious or unsettled, one way to calm and steady ourselves is to listen to such soothing music.

Our heartbeats tend to beat in sync with the music we are hearing, though this depends on your mood, the emotions the music stirs in you, what you've consumed, &c. This syncing of heartbeat to music doesn't happen quickly, but over many minutes. So keep listening! All tracks have exactly the same beats per minute. All these tracks are between 3 and 16 minutes long.

Notice: there are smartphone apps that measure your heartbeat and suggest music in the same tempo or mood. But since their algorithms assume rock music in 4/4 meter with a steady drumbeat, they often decide our soothing music (often not in 4/4) is twice as fast as it really is. The full (FREE) high-quality mp3 files here have carefully included metadata that specifies the tempo, if your app is smart enough to look there

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