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Location: Singapore | Hello, I love listening to classical music, which is light and relaxing, when I do my daily yoga practice. I actually love to listen to Sitar music during this time that helps me to concentrate completely. Has anyone else tried this during meditation practice or anyone has any idea about listening of music during meditation? Does it help in meditation?
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Location: Washington DC | Namaste brayanaSg!
As we had a talk in other post that I personally don’t like any music during my practice as it distracts my mind. However, you find it relaxes and more focus on whatever you are doing right. So you go ahead with it. I never discourage people, who find it helpful to concentrate on there yoga practice. We have many ways to concentrate during Meditation.
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Location: Singapore | Namaste,
Thank you yogacharya tonmoy for your advice. So I can continue my meditation if I find it relaxes and more focus on what I am doing. Thank you
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Location: Washington DC | Yes brayan, you can.
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Location: Singapore | How to learn meditation? like as you said "We have many ways to concentrate in meditation" - so what are the ways? Is that possible to guide this way here?
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Edited by brayanSg 2009-09-30 7:08 PM
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Location: Washington DC | You need a teacher brayan to learn meditation. I hope you can find a teacher in Singapore. There are many qualified teachers and yoga studios around. Best wishes to you.. |
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| Please allow me to turn things around a bit and suggest: instead of listening to music while meditating, to just try to produce it yourself, by chanting the aum, listening to your own aum-sound and observing what is happening inside you.
It is the simplest kind of meditation, but when done regularly and with awareness, I think it may even become the highest of the meditations. Certainly the savviest one, when done without any guidance.
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Location: Washington DC | Brayan, Kristi is right - "chanting the aum, listening to your own aum-sound and observing what is happening inside you."
This is a nice and very effective way of Meditation. Please try to follow this..
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| Hi ya brayanaSg, I would say that it depends on how deep you wish to go if you are enjoying the music while you practice fine, it may not have a negative effect, but if you want to go into deep meditation it will distract you and if you are partially focused on external sounds how will you hear the Inner Sound/s? As the mystic Kabir said, ’I relish and enjoy the un-struck 'Anahat Shabad ‘. This sound/music will be come apparent to you as you move forward in your practice, during/after I practice my daily 1hour meditation the Unstruck sound manifests, it is always with us but like a clock ticking in a noisy room we cant hear it, only when we make the room quiet can we hear the clock. Listening to this inner sound is a beautiful experience and when its intensity increases one becomes aware that it emanates from the inner state of Peace. The Light and Shabad and Supreme Peace are all one. |
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| I don't use music during meditation because I like the tranquility of quietness. Now with yoga I certainly enjoy music. You might want to check out http://www.horsesfeathers.com it has some good suggestions.
Edited by Sydney 2010-01-28 11:43 AM
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| Listening to classical Music or Chanting or following any other technique while Meditation helps to concentrate more. It surely depends on person to person what technique they like to adopt. As per my observation new comers are taking help of these techniques as it is difficult to concentrate at your own if you are new to Meditation.
I met my Meditation Guru-Unity at Singapore during Yoga and Meditation conference, he is having many students in Singapore, and you can get more information about him at nearby Meditation Centers.
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Music during meditation?
