The Chillout Lounge Mix - True Home
They say home is where your hat is. For me, it’s where my headphones are. But beyond roofs and rooms, there’s another kind of home, the one we all carry inside. Every one of us has a true home within. You might feel it most in meditation, or in what I call Stillpoint, that moment of inner silence where breath, body, and mind rest in the same rhythm. For me, it often arrives after movement and flow.
I talked about flowstate in the last mix, what goes up must come down so feeling still and calm is the perfect companion to flow. That’s why my mixes begin with uplifting energy and gradually unwind into calm, you can use movement that feels good to you; the rhythm, the build, it clears the static. Then, when the last notes dissolve into ambient space, that’s the perfect time to close your eyes, lie back, and let true home appear.
The first half of this mix invites movement, walk, run, dance, train, stretch, or simply let the body sway, rhythm holds you so you don’t have to force it. The second half softens into ambience, perfect for meditation, reflection, or drifting toward sleep. And when the last note fades, don’t rush to fill the space. Let the silence remain, even for a minute. That stillness is the True Home the music was pointing to all along.
I’ve tried hundreds of meditation styles since childhood. What I’ve learned is this: the body knows the one you need. If you’re exhausted, sleep is best. If your mind is wired or overwhelming, movement meditation and / or quiet stillness is the medicine. The body has its own intelligence, and if you let it, it will guide you home.
And when that Stillpoint arises, the natural urge is to get excited, like when you suddenly realise you’re lucid dreaming, or when you slip into flow and want to hold on tight. But here’s the paradox: the more you try, the quicker it fades. True home asks only that you stay calm, relaxed, and let it deepen by itself.
Most of us today benefit from quieting the mind. That’s the heart of Zen: not exotic robes or rituals, just the ability to sit inside yourself without needing anything else.
Movement meditation
The body is the anchor.
Rhythm, cadence, or repetitive motion (running, dancing, walking, cycling, even cooking or tidying) takes the lead.
Because the body has something to “do,” the mind naturally unclenches. Thought doesn’t have to be policed; it just falls into step with the rhythm.
It’s outwardly active but inwardly stilling, motion creates the conditions for attention to settle.
Common feeling: “I forgot I was exercising; it just flowed.”
Breath-based “let thoughts pass” meditation (sometimes called still or mindfulness meditation)
The breath (or awareness itself) is the anchor.
You sit or lie still and simply notice thoughts, letting them drift through without chasing or resisting them.
The mind stays on the breath as a returning point - in, out, rise, fall - while awareness observes the constant parade of thoughts, sensations, and feelings.
Outwardly nothing moves, inwardly there’s plenty happening, but your relationship to it changes: watching rather than getting pulled.
Common feeling: “I saw the thoughts and let them pass, like clouds.”
In short:
Movement meditation = the body’s rhythm clears the mental clutter.
Still breath meditation = the mind is allowed to empty itself because you refuse to hold on.
Both train the nervous system toward calm coherence, one through entrainment (body leads, mind follows), the other through observation (mind learns not to grip).
Flowstate was the rhythm you danced inside, True Home is the silence that gave it shape. One moves you forward, the other draws you inward. Flowstate is immersion into rhythm, tone, and inner momentum. True Home is the pause inside that current, the stillpoint that has started whole movements, the quiet return that makes flow sustainable. It always happens suddenly to me, I often sense a micro exhale through the mouth with a gentle pah’ sound and my hearing has a sudden silence, if you feel this, calmly smile into it without getting excited if you can.
This mix is designed as a journey across both. The first half is alive, rhythmic, and kinetic, an open invitation to exercise, dance, train, stretch, or simply move in whatever way feels true to you. When the body finds a groove, the mind stops sprinting. You don’t have to push; cadence holds you. The rhythm smooths your edges, unlocks focus, and carries you into coherence. This is movement meditation in disguise, focus without forcing, effort dissolving into presence.
Then the energy begins to soften. The second half drifts into open ambience, a space for stillness, reflection, or quiet landing. Here, the mix invites meditation in its subtler forms: lying down at the end of a long day, letting sleep arrive naturally; sitting in calm awareness, finding clarity without motion; resting in the stillpoint, the clean hinge where doing becomes being. This is sleep meditation and stillpoint meditation, woven together through tone and breath.
And when the final notes fade, the mix isn’t over. It leaves a space that is yours to inhabit. Don’t rush to fill it. Close the laptop, put the phone down, and stay in the silence for a while. Sit, lie, or simply pause. Let the quiet deepen into its own music. That silence can be the true home.
Flow is not something you have to chase. It’s something you live from when body, breath, and attention align. Flowstate shows you how to travel inside that rhythm. True Home shows you where to arrive when the rhythm releases. Together they form a continuum, effort and ease, movement and stillness, sound and silence.
You don’t need to try. The more you let go, the more it gives back.
True Home is the companion to Flowstate, and it’s also its source, the stillpoint that starts whole movements, the pause that makes momentum possible, the silence that completes the song.
Tracklist:
I Want You In The Dark (Aniche Remix) - Peter Harich
Sanctuary (Made In The Dark's Tulum Beach Revisit) - Lee Ogdon
Kola (Original Mix) - Paul Losev
Takant (Adrian Font Remix) - Bodaishin, Derk, Demis
A Poem For You - Francisco (PT)
And If You Go (Extended Mix) - West of the Sun, Amber Revival
Salted Harmony (Original Mix) - Sunchain
Fracture (Extended Mix) - Heard Right Fla
Finding (Extended Mix) - Heard Right Fla
Ocean Silk - Chris Zippel, Jose Padilla
Glow - Sine
Nostalgia - Eskadet
Islands - Eternell
