Mat Creedon - Music Is Medicine

Sometimes songs feel like they come from us. Other times they feel like they come through us. In this episode of Mat Creedon – Music is Medicine, Mat shares the story behind one of the best melodies he has ever written — a song called Orbita. The melody appeared suddenly after a long day of songwriting, arriving almost fully formed with a verse, pre-chorus, chorus and post-chorus. Moments like this remind us that creativity can be mysterious. The mind searches, struggles, experiments… and then suddenly something deeper appears. But the real lesson this experience revealed had nothing to do with songwriting. It was about resilience, perspective, and learning to appreciate the quiet miracle of simply being alive. Sometimes the greatest comfort in life doesn’t come from avoiding hardship — it comes from becoming strong enough to meet whatever life brings. In this reflection, Mat explores creativity, stoicism, and the strange way inspiration sometimes arrives when the mind becomes still.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

There’s a good reason why people love music. When we practice an instrument, hum quietly to ourselves, or repeat a simple musical phrase, something begins to shift inside us. Music has a remarkable ability to help us process emotions and release tension. In this episode of the Afterbath Podcast, Mat Creedon explores how music, repetition, and sound can act as a form of meditation and emotional release. Sometimes we’re not overwhelmed by emotions — we’re simply holding onto them too tightly. Through simple practices like vocal toning, humming, or playing an instrument, sound can help emotions move through the body instead of remaining stuck. At the end of the episode, Mat shares a gentle sound practice you can try yourself.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

What if spirituality is much simpler than we’ve been taught? In this episode of Afterbath, Mat Creedon explores a playful but practical way of looking at spirituality — not as a belief system, but as a return to awareness. What if the human body is simply a kind of biological spacesuit? What if the mind is software, the ego is the antivirus program, and the real “you” is the one quietly observing the whole system? Along the way we explore how beliefs shape our experience of reality, why direct experience matters more than labels, and why it might be wise to keep your dogma on a leash. Sometimes spirituality isn’t about becoming something new. Sometimes it’s about remembering what we already are. Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

Breathing is something we do all day without thinking about it — but the way we breathe can dramatically change how we feel. In this episode of Afterbath, Mat Creedon explores a simple conscious breathing technique used in meditation traditions for thousands of years, including the Buddhist practice of watching the breath. You’ll learn a gentle breathing pattern using a four-count inhale and six-count exhale that helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system — the part of the body responsible for rest, recovery, and calm. This practice can help when: • anxiety begins to rise • your mind feels foggy • you’re tired but still need energy • you’re facing difficult decisions • life feels overwhelming When the out-breath becomes longer than the in-breath, the body naturally begins to relax and the mind becomes clearer. At the end of this episode you’ll also find a link to a guided breathing practice from the Sound Bath Choir series so you can follow along and try the technique yourself. Sometimes the simplest reset available to us is also the most powerful. The breath. To watch the full breathing technique on YouTube, please click here: https://youtu.be/6-xuYIMb-eoMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

This is the final episode in the Transforming Lives One Note At A Time series. Over these reflections, we’ve explored presence, surrender, the restless mind, and the art of allowing life to unfold without resistance. In this closing chapter, everything comes back to one simple truth: we are always practising. Whether we realise it or not, we rehearse a way of seeing the world through our habits, our thoughts, and our reactions. The question is not whether we are practising — but what we are practising. In this episode, I share a simple story I use with my music students about perspective, perfection, and the limits of habitual thinking. The reflection concludes with a 15-minute immersive Sound Bath recorded in 2025 — an invitation to soften, listen, and experience life exactly as it is. Nothing to achieve. Nothing to fix. Just the practice of being. — MatMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of the Afterbath Podcast, Mat explores the true meaning of surrender — not as defeat, but as freedom from resisting the present moment. The mind is a powerful survival tool, constantly scanning the past and predicting the future. But what happens when we stop arguing with reality? What changes when we allow this moment to be exactly as it is? This guided reflection gently explores: • Letting go of ego-driven resistance • The difference between serving from joy and performing for approval • How mental tension drains energy • Why surrender is clarity — not collapse The episode transitions into a participatory sound bath featuring a low 100Hz heart bowl and layered vocal toning. You’re invited not only to listen, but to softly join — allowing surrender to become vibration. This is not just meditation. It’s an exploration of awareness through sound. New Afterbath episodes released regularly.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

Happiness and unhappiness feel like opposites. But what if they’re simply two sides of the same coin? In this episode of Afterbath, Mat explores how the mind chases pleasure and resists discomfort — and how that cycle quietly shapes our lives, our relationships, and even our sense of identity. Through reflection and gentle awareness, we look at what exists beyond preference, beyond comparison, and beyond the constant pursuit of “feeling better.” Following the spoken reflection, a 15-minute immersive sound bath invites you into stillness — a space where neither happiness nor unhappiness defines you. There is something deeper. There is peace. Transforming lives, one note at a time.If you wish to experience the full one-hour sound bath, here is a YouTube link: https://youtu.be/57YuoX97G3AMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

This episode begins with a spoken reflection on relationships, presence, and emotional attachment — exploring how fear, love, and awareness quietly shape the way we connect with others. Rather than offering advice or solutions, this session invites gentle observation: listening without fixing, meeting others without possession, and allowing space for growth on both sides of a relationship. Following the reflection, the episode transitions into a wind chime sound bath (approximately 25 minutes), created to support rest, integration, and nervous system settling. There’s nothing to do and nowhere to go. Simply listen, rest, and allow the sound to carry what words no longer need to hold. Suitable for quiet reflection, evening listening, or as a soft companion before sleep.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of Afterbath, Mat explores a simple but often misunderstood idea: stillness doesn’t begin with silence — it begins with awareness. Through gentle reflection and grounded metaphors, this session reframes meditation not as something to “get right,” but as something already available in everyday experience. Rather than trying to quiet the mind, listeners are invited to notice it — and in that noticing, discover natural doorways into presence. This episode pairs reflective spoken guidance with spacious pauses, offering a calm entry point into stillness that feels accessible, human, and unforced. Listen when you want to slow down, reset your attention, or simply sit with yourself for a few quiet moments — no effort required.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of Afterbath, Mat Creedon explores The Inner Body — the quiet, timeless aspect of awareness that exists beneath thoughts, emotions, and personal stories. Through a gentle spoken teaching and guided body scan, you’re invited to reconnect with the part of you that never ages, never rushes, and is always present. This session offers a grounded, accessible way to experience presence through the physical body, breath, and felt sensation. The episode concludes with a 6-minute Gong & Rain Sound Bath, designed to deepen inner awareness and support relaxation, rest, or a smooth transition into sleep. A link to an extended one-hour sound bath is included for those who wish to continue. https://youtu.be/Qn1ZEeqNt4wThere’s nothing to believe and nothing to fix — just an invitation to listen, soften, and return home to yourself. 🎧 Best experienced with headphones 🛌 Suitable for rest, meditation, or winding down 🌿 A calm companion for presence in everyday lifeMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

Welcome to Afterbath — a space for slowing down, listening deeply, and reconnecting with yourself through sound, presence, and quiet reflection. In this episode, Mat Creedon shares a spoken reflection from his book in progress, Transforming Lives One Note at a Time. This chapter — The State of Presence — explores what it means to be fully here, beyond mental noise, comparison, and the constant pull of past and future. Through gentle language and grounded insight, this episode invites you to notice the difference between thinking about life and actually feeling it — returning to the heart, the body, and the present moment. Following the spoken reflection, you’re guided into a 6-minute sound bath — a short immersion designed to gently settle the nervous system and offer a simple reset, wherever you are. There’s nothing you need to do. No technique. No effort. Simply allow the sound to move through you in whatever way it does. 🎧 Headphones recommended for the most immersive experience. — 🔗 For the full-length sound bath experience, you can listen here: https://youtu.be/jgqI86FLAX4 Thank you for spending this time here. Be gentle with yourself. — MatMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of Afterbath, I explore what I mean by the state of presence — or what I like to call chasing bliss. Not because bliss is missing, but because the act of chasing reveals how often we overlook what’s already here. This chapter reflects on awareness as the part of us that watches life unfold without judgement, comparison, or the need to fix anything. Through gentle humour and everyday examples, I look at how belief systems, mental noise, and the constant urge to be right can quietly pull us away from ease — and how presence is always closer than we think. The episode includes a short Sound Bath preview. If you’d like to go deeper, you can listen to the full one-hour Sound Bath here: 👉 https://youtu.be/OkJaZTS0g7oMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of Afterbath, Mat shares Chapter Three from his upcoming book Transforming Lives One Note at a Time. This reflection explores the subtle strategies the mind uses to avoid the present moment — turning life into problems, distractions, drama, and endless mental noise. Through grounded stories and gentle humour, Mat looks at why the mind struggles with stillness, how it confuses labels for experience, and how presence is always closer than we think. The episode concludes by inviting you to Sojourn into the present moment with a six-minute Native American Flute immersive, allowing the words to dissolve into direct experience. 🎶 To experience the full 15-minute immersive sound journey Sojourn, listen here: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSvP5ibuCSc Best listened to somewhere comfortable. Headphones recommended.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode, Mat Creedon reflects on something simple, but quietly life-changing: learning how to live in the present moment. So much of our stress comes from replaying the past or racing ahead into the future. In this gentle conversation, Mat explores what it actually means to return to now — not as an abstract spiritual idea, but as a very real, lived experience you can access at any moment. To support this reflection, the episode closes with a short preview from a 1-hour 3D Ambisonic Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Bath, recorded with seven bowls arranged in a circle, placing you right in the centre of the sound. It’s designed to help the nervous system settle and the mind soften — no effort required. If you’d like to experience the full one-hour sound bath, you can listen here: https://youtu.be/y5fuwbvzyCY This episode is perfect for: • Slowing down • Reconnecting with the present moment • Gentle reflection without pressure • Deep rest through immersive sound Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down, and allow yourself to arrive.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of Afterbath, Mat shares Chapter One from his upcoming book Transforming Lives One Note at a Time. This reflection explores the inner voice — the constant mental commentary that judges, compares, and tells us we’re not good enough, especially when learning music, singing, or trying something new. You’ll hear why music is not a competition, not a performance, and not a measure of your worth — but simply an experience of sound, presence, and awareness. The episode closes with a six-minute Christmas Sound Bath preview to help settle the body and quiet the mind. 🎄 For the full one-hour Christmas Sound Bath experience: 👉 https://youtu.be/qnOQvPCa-z8Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this episode of Afterbath, I share a personal reflection drawn from the introduction of a book I’m currently writing — a story about music, burnout, compassion, and an unexpected awakening that arrived quietly through everyday life. Following the reflection, I invite you into a six-minute sound bath featuring Tibetan gongs and a rain stick. It’s a short, spacious pause designed to help the nervous system settle and the mind soften. No technique, no effort — just listening. If you’d like to go deeper, you can experience the full one-hour sound bath here: 👉 https://youtu.be/hRBWEOcprP4 Best enjoyed with headphones, lying down, or simply playing in the background as you move gently through your day. — Afterbath with Mat CreedonMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this Afterbath episode, Mat Creedon explores the unique world of the Lingam and Yoni Tibetan Singing Bowls — two ancient instruments designed to rebalance the masculine (doing) and feminine (being) energies within us. Mat shares the story behind these bowls, how they symbolise the dance between action and presence, and why balancing these energies is essential for emotional clarity, nervous system calm, and a more grounded daily life. You’ll also hear a 6-minute preview from his new 1-hour Ambisonic 3D Sound Bath, recorded to create a deeply immersive field of vibration around the listener. Perfect for anyone wanting to: • Ease stress & overwhelm • Reconnect with the body • Find harmony between productivity and presence • Experience a unique Tibetan bowl meditation 🎧 For the full 1-hour Ambisonic Sound Bath, click the link. https://youtu.be/NZH4VSTXij0 Take a moment, breathe, and let the sound guide you back into balance.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this reflective Afterbath episode, Mat Creedon shares the personal story of a powerful shift that unfolded in his life just before Melbourne’s lockdowns — a sudden and unexpected opening into deep calm, clarity, and presence. Mat talks about moving through rapid healing, experiencing effortless states of bliss, and seeing the world with new eyes — where sunlight, nature, and living beings glowed with a vividness he’d never noticed before. He explores how fear quietly shapes our lives, what happens when it dissolves, and how simple practices like feeling your feet on the floor, placing attention in the body, and breathing with awareness can reconnect us to the only moment we ever truly have: now. This episode also includes a 6-minute preview from the full 1-hour “Full Chakra Reset” Sound Bath, recorded in immersive 3D ambisonic audio. This short excerpt offers a gentle taste of the grounding, soothing, and subtle shifts that the full session invites. If the preview resonates with you, the complete one-hour experience is linked below. 🌿 Full One-Hour Sound Bath: https://youtu.be/1XEq40dGwrU — AFTERBATH with Mat Creedon A weekly moment of presence through sound, breath, story, and stillness.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

In this special Afterbath Session, Mat Creedon shifts the focus from microphones and frequencies to something deeper — the art of presence. Mat shares a personal story of growing up with a brother living with schizophrenia, discovering Transcendental Meditation in his teens, and later experiencing a powerful awakening after reading The Power of Now. This episode explores how the mind moves between past and future, how presence heals, and how sound can guide us back into the only moment that’s real — the one we’re in now. You’ll also receive a 6-minute mini Sound Bath, designed as an easy, accessible meditation you can use anytime to reset your nervous system. For those wanting the deeper journey, the full one-hour Sound Bath here is a link: https://youtu.be/pN2f0Sfl8GoBreathe in. Drop in. Welcome to the Afterbath.Music Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.

This week’s Afterbath Session features a Tibetan Singing Bowl tuned to 104 Hz — a natural variation of the 100 Hz grounding frequency known to calm the nervous system and restore balance. Let the deep, resonant tones guide you from tension to stillness — easing the body, centring the mind, and reconnecting you with the Earth beneath your feet. 🎧 Best experienced with headphones for full 3D immersion. 🌿 Listen to the full one-hour Sound Bath here: https://youtu.be/Duu7prV6EIk 🌐 matcreedon.com | 🎙️ Afterbath with Mat CreedonMusic Is Medicine is a podcast by Mat Creedon — a musician, sound practitioner, and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, Australia. In each episode, Mat explores the deeper relationship between music, emotion, and the human nervous system. Through reflections on songwriting, sound meditation, creativity, and deep listening, the podcast looks at how music can help us process experience, release emotion, and reconnect with ourselves. Drawing from years of musical practice, sound work, and teaching, these conversations invite listeners to explore a simple but powerful idea: Music is not only something we listen to. Sometimes, music is medicine.