There are many different types of meditation music and many different types of meditation.
Before choosing your meditation music you need to be sure as to what sort of meditation you will be doing.
Meditation can be separated into just a few basic groups as follows.
First there is the traditional what I call strict meditation where the general idea is to enter into nothingness.
This is achieved by trying to attain a complete absence of thought and to allow your mind to become empty.
The technique for doing this is to observe any thoughts that arise and to simply let them float away without letting yourself become attached to them.
This is in my opinion a very difficult way to enter into the state of meditation and it is the least conducive to using meditation music.
There is another type of meditation that is a little less rigid but still aims at putting you into the same space of nothingness and to entering into that special state of meditation.
This form of meditation is a little more free and it is more appropriate to use meditation music whilst doing it.
The calming music serves the function of relaxing you and helping you to get into the meditative state.
Then there are the guided meditations that uses meditation music as a background.
These are narrated instructions spoken softly or even hypnotically over the soothing background music.
These instructions allow you to completely relax as you don't have to do anything at all.
Simply follow the instructions given by the narrator and allow yourself to get lost in a world of fantasy you will soon enter into a state of meditation without even realizing it.
These are just three different types of meditations, two of which are enhanced by the use of meditation music.