Music as Medicine: How Your Heart Can Rewire Your Nervous System at 60 BPM with Barry Goldstein
Release Date: 07/23/2025
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info_outlineWhat if music isn’t just something we hear, but something our bodies remember?
In this powerful episode of The Vitalist, Grammy-winning composer, producer, and sound healing pioneer Barry Goldstein joins us to explore music as medicine. From heart coherence to brainwave entrainment, Barry breaks down how rhythm, intention, and vibration interact with the nervous system, emotions, and even the cells of the body.
He shares his journey from burnout as a mainstream record producer to becoming a “musitarian”, someone who uses sound to uplift humanity. Through personal stories, scientific insight, and practical tools, Barry reveals how the right music at the right tempo (especially 60–70 bpm) can activate deep healing, coherence, and states of flow.
You'll learn:
Why our earliest experience of sound begins in the womb
How specific tempos and frequencies entrain the brain and heart
How to become your own sound healer
What it really means to “raise your vibration”
Real-life stories of people using music to process grief, illness, and transformation
Barry also shares the intention behind three of his most loved tracks, including Heart Codes and Hallelujah Amen, and explains how music can create a “field effect” that influences not just the listener, but the space around them.
Whether you’re healing from stress, seeking emotional regulation, or simply curious about the intelligence of sound, this conversation will change how you listen, forever.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Growing up in the Bronx, Barry witnessed music’s power to shift moods and uplift spirits across cultures long before he knew the science behind it. (1:26)
Barry became a successful music producer, but success brought burnout eventually fading his passion for music. (3:16)
Curious about heart coherence, Barry began composing music at the rhythm of a relaxed heartbeat, 60–70 beats per minute. What followed changed everything. (5:20)
His hour-long ambient compositions began being used in massage therapy—and soon, in dental chairs, delivery rooms, hospice care, and more. (6:30)
Parents of children on the spectrum gravitated toward Ambiology 5: Eden. Alzheimer's patients responded too. The music was helping, but the question became: how? (7:42)
When the heart synchronizes with music, the brain follows. Barry explains how rhythmic sound brings the body into healing alpha brainwave states. (8:07)
Long before the ear forms in utero, we feel vibration. Our first music is the heartbeat and breath of our mother, imprinting a deep, embodied memory of rhythm. (10:35)
The heart literally sets the tempo for every other system in the body, guiding regulation and coherence. (11:20)
Barry leads a grounding, integrative breathwork practice designed to restore inner harmony and reconnect to your unique frequency. (12:48)
Frequencies aren’t one-size-fits-all. Barry encourages us to become our own sound healers and discover what truly resonates with our ever-changing inner landscape. (15:45)
Music carries information. But it’s the emotion behind the intention that delivers healing. (17:31)
Quincy Jones said it best: “Melody is a gift from God.” And it’s more powerful than any tech we try to layer on top. (18:06)
Science is catching up. Studies now explore how frequencies can support cancer treatment. (19:16)
Barry shares insights from Dr. Bill Tiller and Stephen Hawking: love and compassion literally vibrate higher than shame and fear. When we shift emotionally, we shift biologically. (19:36)
Barry breaks down three powerful tracks, Heart Codes, Hallelujah Amen, and Om Shalom Home, and the intentional frequencies behind them. (21:19)
Hallelujah Amen was composed with this intention: “The healing is already done.” (22:33)
Om Shalom Hom channels the primordial sound “Om”—said to contain every frequency in the universe. (23:18)
Real story: A man drove into the desert, intending not to return. But something made him hit play on Barry’s track Lay Down in Love. He said, “Your music saved my life.” (24:41)
Barry calls his work Acousticeuticals. Like food, we can nourish ourselves with sound intentionally, morning, noon, and night.(26:42)
He breaks down how binaural beats work and how to use them to target specific brain states. (29:27)
His Ambiology series and Heart Codes are all set to 60 bpm—the tempo your body instinctively trusts for rest, repair, and coherence. (30:07)
Research shows music can spark autobiographical memories and neuroplasticity—making it a powerful tool in Alzheimer’s care. (30:44)
His wife once felt the music he was composing, through a wall, with Barry wearing headphones. “Music creates a field beyond itself.” (31:16)
The more you play a song with intention, the stronger its energetic field becomes. Music magnifies presence. (32:04)
Barry is exploring with researchers how music may impact cellular structures like mitochondria. (33:07)
Barry now calls himself a musitarian, someone who uses music to uplift humanity. (34:29)
RESOURCES
Learn more at barrygoldsteinmusic.com
Explore sound branding at sonic-signatures.com
Book: The Secret Language of the Heart by Barry Goldstein
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