Over the past sixty years, a growing body of research has confirmed that many different styles of music are useful and effective in healthcare and therapeutic settings. In 1988, as part of my own recovery from panic and anxiety disorder, a counselor suggested I write the kind of music that reflected the way I'd like to feel.
Though I wanted to feel calm and relaxed, I couldn't imagine writing slow, peaceful music at that point in time. However, sitting by the ocean in Laguna Beach one afternoon, I realized the sound of the ocean had suddenly made me feel deeply relaxed for the first time in many months. Since the sound of the "liquid" (ocean) had slowed my "mind", I resolved that day to create "Liquid Mind" music to help myself and others.
As I didn't want to rely on medication for relaxation, I chose instead to use my music, along with meditation (sometimes for hours at a time), acupuncture, frequent counseling, and support groups to heal myself and to make some difficult life changes necessary to preserving my health and happiness.
While I make no scientific claims whatsoever for my music, based upon unsolicited feedback from thousands of listeners during the past 3 decades, the sixteen Liquid Mind® albums appear to be deeply relaxing to some folks (including their kids and pets), and my albums have been used by practitioners in many diverse settings. This listener feedback has given me an indication of how, why, and where people listen to Liquid Mind: Stress relief and relaxation programs, meditation groups, veterans' PTSD recovery and family groups, pre-sleep routines, addiction recovery including prison rehabilitation programs, chemotherapy centers, anger management groups, acupuncture, massage therapy, pain management including for migraine, attention deficit treatment, yoga, pilates and other exercise-based healing programs, and veterinary post-surgical recovery.
It is my sincere hope that you will find some benefit from listening to my music and that Liquid Mind® will be part of your Musical Healthcare®. As my music appears to deeply relax some folks, please do not listen while driving or operating machinery of any kind. Drive safely at all times!
In gratitude for your support of my music,
— Chuck Wild, Los Angeles, California, July 9, 2021
Review
July 30, 2021: Amazon Customer Review
by Dyan Garris, New Age CD
The quintessential relaxation experience by the quintessential master of relaxation. Period.
The Liquid Mind® series is a 17-album series by Emmy® nominated composer Chuck Wild. Chuck is well-known in the New Age arena, but he’s also worked with artists such as Michael Jackson and Frank Zappa to name a few. It’s always a pleasure to review any music by Chuck from this series, as it’s just SO good, so ultra-relaxing and peaceful. This particular album “Musical Healthcare®” is a compilation of the best music from the Liquid Mind® series.
Here we have 8 tracks and just over 70 minutes of pure bliss that is perfect for meditation, massage, help in sleeping, quelling anxiety, and a host of therapeutic regimens. This is all soft, slow, sweet, subtle, and healing synth electronica, truly at its finest.
The album opens with “Surrender to Love.” And, how very easy it is to do so here. For those who are not familiar with the Liquid Mind® series, this is some of the most calming music you’ll ever experience. It’s got an effortless and heavenly vibe to it that is hard to come close to.
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