Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

calming music | meditation images
It was October 2001 when Rhio O’ Connor, a sixty-one year old man, was astounded to hear about the deadly cancer disease, Mesothelioma, that he was reported to be suffering from. It is a rare kind of cancer that is caused due to malignant cells found in the lining of chest and abdomen. More risk develops if exposed to airborne asbestos. Rhio was told by the doctors that he will not be able to survive longer than a year. But the high-spirited man was ready to take the initiative of fighting the disease through his strong self-determination. Thus, this old fighter left the world stunned as he lived seven and a half years longer than his prognosis.

Rhio spent endless hours in the library, studying books in order to find a treatment to the cancer disease he was suffering from. As a result of his research, Rhio came up to work with a panel of professional clinicians and formulated a regimen of more than one hundred supplements a day. He changed his diet and started practicing mind-body medicine. Thus, Rhio completely supported the theory of Hippocrates that “The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.”

Learning from Rhio’s inspirational story, I decided to keep myself in his shoes and think as to what I would have done if gone through a similar situation. Knowing about my ill-health and being aware of my dire cancer prognosis, I would have, first of all, researched about the cause of the disease. Having my major as Biology and having an appreciable Science background I would have researched about the target organs Mesothelioma is going to affect. Obtaining a thorough knowledge about the disease, its cause and effect and the biological theory behind it, I would have discussed the situation with the best professional experts to come up to an approachable conventional treatment.

If my cancer stage would have been critical such that surgery could not have been possible or if chemotherapy would not have been any better, I would have chosen to treat this cancer disease of mine on my own by taking other forms of treatment.

Of course, there are several alternative treatments that I would have taken on my own. I would have used resources like the official websites of cancer societies that provide ways of making the lifestyle of cancer patients better. Many colleges, universities and medical school libraries provide books, electronic resources, and databases that provide other forms of treatments for cancer patients. Also, I would have taken the advice of my uncle who is an oncologist. His advice would also have been helpful in the improvement of my condition.

One of the options that I have discovered through an official website of “Cancer National Institute” is naturopathic treatment. These series of treatments aim to restore our internal body imbalance and makes our immune system strong, thus slowing the tumor growth. This treatment involves taking a good nutrition to fight off infections and getting a quick recovery. Acupuncture, also a part of this treatment, causes the flow of energy in our body. Nutrition from Botanical medicine like green tea contains cancer fighting compounds that are beneficial for cancer patients. Also, I would consult different specialists on aspects of physical recovery. These include physical therapy that will bring physical strength, speech pathology that will improve my communication skills, and occupational therapy that will restore independence within me. From the inspirational story of Rhio, I learned that mind-body medicine also induces a self-healing process. It will enable me to deal with my emotions that will not only keep me in a happy mood but will also make me cope up with the cancer effectively. I have learned through my own experience of meditation that practicing spirituality through religion, private prayers, meditation, taking an evening walk or even listening to music brings inner peace and removes a sense of loneliness in one’s life.

Learning about the thought-provoking story of Rhio O’Connor, I set a new aim in life. And that aim is to make the health care field as my future career in life, so that, like Rhio, I will be able to make a difference in the life of some people who dream to live longer.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
meditation prayer | reiki meditation music
Free binaural beats MP3 recordings seem to be everywhere these days, and that has to be a good thing. I mean, who doesn’t like free, right? Well, maybe we need to remember that we get what we pay for. Free binaural beats are free for a reason: they’re not as good as binaural beats you buy, and you shouldn’t use them if you really want to get results from your brainwave entrainment sessions.

Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Free Binaural Beats

How Do You Know What You’re Getting? When you buy binaural beats from a reputable supplier, you can be very confident that you’re getting an MP3 or CD that was produced by a professional sound engineer using advanced equipment to embed exactly the right auditory tones into your recording. Decent sellers stand behind their products with long warranty periods – eight weeks in some cases – and have verifiable user testimonials. If, on the other hand, you download an MP3 from some kind of file-sharing service or some anonymous blog, how on earth do you know what you’re getting? It could be worthless junk with no tones at all, the wrong kind of tones, or such poor-quality tones that they will never work. There are all kinds of jokers and shysters on the web who will pass off garbage as the real thing, just for kicks. Always be suspicious of their quality!
Stock Recordings are Inferior. If you are lucky enough to get an actual binaural beat recording for free, in all likelihood it will just be something from a generic stock catalog. If it’s been re-recorded or copied multiple times, the integrity of the tones could well have been compromised. We have to remember that MP3s are compressed audio files; if this compression process is handled clumsily, too much sound data will be lost. The whole point of binaural beats is to expose the brain to sound frequencies that it can’t normally hear (below 20 Hz); to do this, the left and right ears must be exposed to exactly the right frequency differential. Any significant data loss in either channel will corrupt the recording. It might still sound like a nice piece of music with a pulse in the background, but it won’t work.
Free MP3s Could be Stolen. It’s no secret that the music industry went to war against file-sharing sites because of the threat they posed to creative copyrights and the income that flows from them. A lot of people are not too sympathetic towards the big music companies, and don’t lose any sleep over this “borrowing” of someone else’s work. Of course, there is a moral argument here as well as a purely financial one, and both arguments apply to the producers of binaural beats MP3s just as much as they do to music or computer software. Unless they’re giving away free samples, the original producers deserve to be compensated for their efforts.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

This ?requency following?response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ?ntrain?to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.

On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.

Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.

THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ?ind-tripping? enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.

While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.

We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person? starting position, entrainment can be rather ?it and miss?

If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you?e probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain? strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.

Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

mindfulness meditation exercises | relaxing music sounds
What’s really going on when you find yourself snapping at the cat for no real reason, or wildly impatient with the slow checkout girl – more than usual, I mean!!

If you’re in your 40s or early 50s, it might it be menopause. Or it might not. Up to 50 percent of all perimenopausal women experience disturbances in mood, including irritability. In fact, it can be one of the first signs that you are perimenopausal!

Your hormones may be off-balance and cause extra irritability as estrogen levels decline. It could feel like PMS on steroids!! A study involving menopausal and post-menopausal women found that irritability with others was associated with increased levels of Folicule Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Lutenizing Hormone (LH), hormones that are markers of ovarian aging and menopause.

Being irritable and intolerant with those around you, including your spouse, children and pets has consequences and none of them contribute to personal peace. Expressing irritability can alarm and upset loved ones and make you feel guilty for being miserable to those who don’t deserve such a generous expression of your wrath! And that’s not all, at this time of your life you may examine your past and future and decide to put all your relationships under a microscope to determine whether they’re worth the energy it takes to maintain them.

Irritability symptoms may include:

Feeling stressed during a ‘regular’ day
Insomnia
Feeling ‘on edge’
Lasting out in anger or frustration or screaming with rage
Less tolerance with people and events
Reduced patience
Over-reaction to something that wouldn’t have bothered you in the past
Irritability is a general symptom with many explanations.
Your irritability may have nothing to do with menopause. It could be connected to psychological and lifestyle factors including stress, major life changes, a history of depression or mood disorders, physical inactivity, excess consumption of caffeine, alcohol or drugs, or poor diet.
Physical causes can include drug withdrawal or reaction, cancer, headache or migraine, head trauma, anemia, viral infection, diabetes and hypoglycemia.
Irritability can be a side-effect of chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiac disease, diabetes or thyroid disease.
Irritability can be caused by caffeine, hunger and poor nutrition.
Your irritability may be the result of lack of sleep from another menopause indicator: insomnia.
Other menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, loss of libido, vaginal dryness, and more, can cause or contribute to irritability.
Hormone imbalance yes, but the greater change is occurring in your brain which is rewiring during perimenopause. New growth of the myelin sheath, the coating that insulates nerves and speeds up the connection between nerve cells, is happening in the part of the brain responsible for emotional learning. These changes create greater clarity and help us shift from caring for others to more self-nurturing activities. Hence the irritability when asked to do things (e.g. help with homework, making meals) that you might have done in the past without thinking.
Irritability and relationship-housecleaning at mid-life may be the result of reaching the breaking point for tolerating an unsatisfactory relationship that’s gone on for far too long. That’s probably a good thing! It may surprise you to know that many years of simmering, unresolved emotions may also be related to various ‘dis-comforts’ or ‘dis-eases’ in your body. This is what’s known as the ‘mind-body’ connection to disease. Do you have toxic emotions or resentments that are negatively affecting your quality of life? Do you have negative feelings about important people in your life that are overshadowing your good feelings? These feelings need to be resolved – now.

How can you beat irritability? Self-nurturing is the key!

Take time for yourself; either alone or with positive, kind people.
Pursue pleasurable calming hobbies such as beading, knitting, gardening or other activities such as listening to your favorite music, having an Epsom salts bath or change your routine and learn new things by taking a class.
Learn and use stress-reduction techniques including relaxation breathing exercises, yoga, meditation, tai chi, visualization and get more fresh air and sunshine – every day!
Make a commitment to nourish and love yourself by eating healthier foods. Consider the benefits of nutritional cleansing to help you reach your wellness goals! (See my blog “Healthy Affordable Weight Loss Through Nutritional Cleansing” for more information.)
Be sure to get enough B-vitamins, calcium, and magnesium every day.
Keep alcohol and caffeine to a minimum.
Get regular exercise – a universal healing tool – it provides benefits for just about any condition you can name. Hate exercise? Consider getting a top-of-the line rebounder exercise machine – trampoline – so you can ‘hop on’ any time of the day to change your energy and get blood and oxygen flowing to your brain!
Take an honest look at what’s going on in your life and ask yourself if the situation is serving you now. If you had to do it over again, would you? Is it better to let it continue, or have short-term pain for long-term gain? Your answers may help you to decide to renegotiate your relationships with family and friends. This could include changing ‘unwritten contracts’ with your spouse and/or children that have in the past made it OK for them to make last-minute requests that rob you of your down time, or expect that you’ll do all of the cooking or housecleaning. This can be challenging and take time to get everyone in the family on board, but you’ll feel respected and empowered as you stand up for yourself and eventually get your needs met.
Share your life and problem-solve with trusted friends and relatives, or a good therapist. It’s worth being vulnerable with the right people. Try it and see.
Learn and use an easy, simple procedure called Emotional Freedom Techniques (a.k.a. EFT or ‘tapping’) at http://www.EFTUniverse.com! This amazing procedure helps you release long-standing stress and is a tool for finding greater personal peace. EFT has been used for 20 years by doctors, therapists, coaches and holistic practitioners all over the world! You can learn it in 3 minutes and you can use it on yourself with great success! While some issues require repeated tapping and/or the help of a therapist who will bring objective eyes to your issue, EFT has been known to permanently resolve long-standing physical and emotional symptoms within minutes! When you’re ready to release the root cause of what’s holding you back in one or more aspects of your life, if, you’ve ‘tried everything’ and nothing has helped, you can find permanent relief with EFT to resolve issues of anger, irritation, fear, anxiety, and more. Take a few moments to imagine how it would feel to set down a 50-pound weight you’ve been carrying everywhere for years. That’s how I feel when I let go of garbage from my past and no longer allow it to control what I do now.

There’s no urgency to change most of what goes on in our lives, except for the urgency we give it – usually based on how much we want things to change. You deserve to feel good about yourself and the world around you. The sooner you take the first step that feels right to you, the sooner your life will get back on track. You’ll have shifted the energy and will soon find yourself feeling calmer and more like the eye of the storm than the hurricane!
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

meditation music water | easy meditation
A conscious meditation program is something I feel that everyone should try for a period of time at least once in their lifetime. I say conscious because all of us have meditated at times throughout our lives, however, may not have been aware that that’s what we were actually doing. We all think of meditation as sitting by yourself in solitude, lotus position, eyes closed, chanting OM’s and having some dramatic spiritual experience. While meditation can be practiced and experienced like this, and have some very profound benefits, it does not have to be like that every time.

One of the biggest obstacles for myself and probably many others is the feeling of not enough time or the ability to find that moment when you can have some solitude to really sit down, focus and meditate. In a household with my husband, 4 young children, 2 dogs and 2 cats the chaos that ensues during each given day left me feeling like a personal meditation practice was going to be impossible. I was always too busy, both physically in my life but also with the thoughts of chores, work, and the needs of my family running through my mind at every moment of the day. It felt that I would have to gain some kind of superhero powers for me to be able to just sit still all alone and clear my mind for even 5 minutes. I always felt I would be wasting valuable time that was needed to do all the other things I felt I had to get done. In this day and age we are constantly bombarded with information and endless to-do lists that turning off our minds and just doing nothing seems wrong to us, like we are being lazy or unproductive. But with all the proven research of how beneficial meditation is, I believe it is a must in this day and age for everyone to “go inside” at least on a weekly basis to feel more in touch with who we really are.

You will find that with meditation you will be more relaxed and content and have a clearer state of mind which will actually lead to more productivity when continuing on with your day. However, it does not necessarily mean having to sit in solitude in a certain position and only reach success when we have some dramatic transformation. Meditation can be done in any place one chooses and even while doing other activities. While at the start of my meditation practice I did dedicate at least 20 minutes each evening to shutting myself in my room listening to guided meditations on you tube so I could “train” my brain and get that feeling of letting go of my thoughts and thinking of nothing in particular, however, after a few weeks of doing this I was able to actually tell my brain to “shut off” at various times during the day when I would be doing usual daily activities. You see meditation is really just the art of not thinking your thoughts, just letting them flow through your brain like water flowing down a river, not stopping and holding on to them to ponder. Now there are many different forms of meditation but a mindfulness meditation practice can be induced while engaged in many of the daily activities we do such as cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, listening to music and walking the dogs. Anytime we are focused on the “now” when doing any certain activity we are engaged in and not letting any other thoughts creep in which can stir up negative emotions, we are doing a form of meditation. One of the main benefits of meditation comes from not thinking any particular thought which may bring up negative emotion.

It’s that relaxed state of being we get from not worrying on every thought that brings about amazing health and mental benefits. In focusing only on the activity you are doing in the “now” and keeping your breath flowing at a relaxed pace, you are engaged in a form of meditation. In doing any specific activity we really enjoy, most of us will enter the “now” state as our enjoyment for our hobby overtakes unnecessary thinking about every other little thing in our lives. So if the thought of a meditation practice has seemed impossible because of the ideal of what meditation is, just know that you have meditated several times in your life already! The next step is to now dive into it on a conscious level, take the time out each day, even for just 10 minutes, to be alone, focus on your breathing, let thoughts go and explore the inner depths of yourself. Try your best to commit to this for at least a 2 week period and I guarantee you will feel the positive benefits and want to find the time to fit it into your daily or at least weekly rituals. We all strive for more happiness and health in our lives and meditation is one of the most important tools we have to achieve this.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
chakra meditation techniques | soothing sounds
Dear Friend,

Do you remember being a kid and the toys you used to play with?

It is a known fact, that the things you are introduced to as a kid, mold your childhood self-concept and develop the growth of your personality. You can find this to be true inside psychological behavior of a child.

A major contributor to this developing factor has a lot to do with the toys your child plays with. For example, if you give your 7-year-old child a puzzle, he has to think about where the pieces go in order to draw out an image.

Or, you may give your child constructive blocks to assemble. It’s called pictorial psychology. This allows the mind of your child to develop in logistics and creativity. Therefore, a puzzle or building blocks would be a good toy of choice for your kid to associate with.

Now, if you give your child something less creative and more destructive such as a permanent black sharpie marker, expect the artistic behavior to jump out and find drawings all over the walls of your house. Although, to your child it may come across as being fun artwork, it defines more of a destructive behavior due to the fact the end result is damaged home d?or.

Lego toys are a great example for enhancing your kid’s self-concept. The reason is because your child can develop the mind-set of an engineer and as long as you praise him or her for the work they have done, their self-concept will increase.

Your role as a parent has a lot to do with the growth of your child. When you participate with them while they figure out their toys, it defines leadership, mentoring, and group therapy.

The developmental stage of a child’s personality is based on the first 30 days from birth. The development of his or her character is reflected within the first 90 days into reality.

Your kids toys from the day they are born reflects the behavior they have until the day they depart. This is important because the toys they grow up playing with can be the very toys they play with throughout life, just on a different scale of fulfillment.

A good method to helping your kids childhood self-concept and brain productivity aside from physical toys, is reading them children’s books.

Children’s books help develop the brainwaves of intelligence. It also helps build your kid’s vocabulary. In conjunction with verbal dictation, showing your child the pictures inside the book will help line up their creative side with their illustrative parts of the brain. It also helps increase memory span and retention. This is solely based on repetition.

The more exercise you provide to your kid, the better off he or she will be. This is why the toys your child plays with has a lot to do with the self-concept and personality growth for up to the first 12 years of life.

Chalkboards are good to help educate your children at a young age. Computerized toys that reflect education, or toys that give kid’s something to think about and expand they’re thought process is what you may want to look into.

Little Einstein has been a popular toy kids play with in today’s marketplace. Teaching your kid how to play the piano at an early age will help develop certain key factors to increasing his or her self-concept in addition to his or her personality growth.

The action figures you allow your children to play with will also has a positive or negative effect on your kid’s because of the influence that toy may or may not have on your kid.

Musical instruments, arts and crafts, and, or games and puzzles are great toys to get your child started or into something to keep his or her mind occupied enough to build on their abilities and young toddlers and young children.

Give your child a fun and exciting toy to play with and watch them develop their personality and character into someone brilliant and intelligent, that someone could be just like you.

Sincerely,

Joseph Schwartz
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

This ?requency following?response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ?ntrain?to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.

On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.

Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.

THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ?ind-tripping? enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.

While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.

We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person? starting position, entrainment can be rather ?it and miss?

If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you?e probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain? strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.

Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

meditation music to sleep by | healing music
Tantra in its essence is a circle of life energy flowing between two people. When that circle is flowing strongly you and your partner grow more and more deeply into harmony with each other. Your relationship comes alive. If you are single, you can still create this circle within yourself and so you discover the law of attraction. That is, the more you are filled with joy and life energy, the more attractive you become.

To understand what this life energy is, remember the first time you touched your partner or someone you felt drawn to. You probably felt a ripple like an electric current flowing between you. That is what is meant by energy. Sometimes, you may still feel it when making love and you know that something special is happening; something that often eludes you. This energy can heal your physical body and it will also heal your relationship.

Imagine your relationship naturally growing deeper and stronger with time. It is not so usual; in fact most couples grow apart with time. Yet it is not so hard to achieve. A little experiment with Tantra will show you how.

To begin, you sit facing each other with your knees just touching. If it is comfortable for you both, the woman may sit on the man’s lap. This is a most beautiful posture and it brings the energy centres or chakras close together.

The secret behind this meditative exercise is that the chakras are polarised. The man’s sex centre is positively charged or active. The woman’s is negatively charged or receptive. It is easy to feel this. Bring your awareness to your sex. Allow yourself to really notice how it feels. Usually, we tend to be shy of this. If you are a woman you will notice how the yoni (this Sanskrit word means ‘divine passage’) wants to pull in her beloved. If a man you know how the lingam (the ‘wand of light’) wants to grow big and move outwards and into your lover.

In the heart, it is reversed. The woman’s breasts naturally flow outwards to the beloved, be it her child or her man. The male is less comfortable with his heart. As it takes a little while for the woman’s sex centre to become responsive, so it takes time for the man’s heart to relax and become responsive. The woman’s heart centre is active. The man’s is receptive.

For a while, you simply sit together and feel each other. It’ll be good to have some music playing, something gentle that you both enjoy. Relax for few moments. Then bring your attention to the sex centre. The woman gives her attention to the in breath, breathing in her man’s life energy. The man focuses on the out breath, letting his fire flow out and into her. Allow your imagination to carry you, feel your breath is flowing in and out of your roots.

Once you are settled in this rhythm, give your attention to the heart. The man begins to feel his woman’s energy flowing in through his heart and the woman feels her warm aliveness flowing out through her breasts and into his chest. This is it: the Circle of Love. The life force is flowing in a circle from the man’s root chakra into the woman’s sex centre, up her spine and out through her breasts. From her breasts, it flows into the man’s heart, down his spine and out again through his lingam.

You can also feel this force flowing within you when you are not with a partner. The circle will flow up the front of your body from your sex to your heart and run back down through your spine to your roots again. If you do not have a partner, it is wonderful to do this on your own. It will heal and strengthen you and create within you a powerful attractive force.

Do more than just read about the Circle of Love. Try the experiment and see for yourself how your life force flows within you and without you. See how it bridges the gap between you and your lover, nourishing you both and bringing new life to the way you relate.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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The other day, I was paging through a new book at the book store, it seems quite good. The name of the book is; “Quiet – The Power of the Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain and it reminded me of a conversation I had with an acquaintance from Australia a few months the prior. He told me that it seemed that “doing nothing” and just thinking or day-dreaming was when some of the best discoveries have been made through human thought and reasoning – and I suppose Plato, Aristotle, and even the condemned Socrates might have agreed while walking amongst the olive trees.

For an example, my acquaintance used Sir Isaac Newton who supposedly, as the story goes and I have no reason to refute it, was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, so I laughed at this example and said; “sure, all that makes total sense and let’s add Sir Isaac Newton, sitting by a tree when the apple fell, just day dreaming – “ah gravity!” Ha ha ha.”

Now then, I’d like to add to his summation the concept of “cross-pollination” and being able to connect dots, in the spatial reasoning portion of the brain, borrowing from different industries, or areas of endeavor, and making sense of things unrelated, borrowing strategies, ideas, designs, innovations. Then I’d add the concept of curiosity, which causes random “thoughts to fly around” and some sit on the back burner, uncategorized, re-categorized, or waiting for a home while the mind finds multiple places to connect through memory by association.

Next, I also believe the N400 brainwave is able to pick up anomalies, things out of place, and that the brain’s chemical splash and reward system which favors such things, increases the brain’s ability to strengthen the connections in that regard, in those types of tasks.

Then I have some theories that there are all sorts of types of thinking and that it’s like racing. Use the whole track, and a super mind should be able to use various strategies of thinking when it serves them, and run those call them (programs) simultaneously, and cross-reference, checking itself. Best of all we can build a multi-decision matrix program to do that simultaneously to get to the Best Answer – in other words once we understand this process in a human brain we can build rules to program an Artificially Intelligent computer like IBM’s Watson to do the same.

Well, I’ve talked long enough, and it’s time for you to have some “Quiet Time” to think – me too, and do let me know what you come up with after you’ve broken through to the next level of higher thought and have come up with an original thought along these lines of inquiry.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

This ?requency following?response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ?ntrain?to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.

On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.

Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.

THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ?ind-tripping? enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.

While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.

We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person? starting position, entrainment can be rather ?it and miss?

If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you?e probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain? strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.

Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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Every year we get to start over and make decisions about healthy living. And since healthy living promotes healthy sleeping and vice-versa, this is the perfect time to connect the relationship between the two.

Healthy Living that promotes healthy sleep.

o Daily exercise, will help you sleep better at night.

o Take time to relax, especially just before bed time.

o Getting out in the sunlight makes you peneal and petuitary glands keep your hormones and body in balance.

o Adding anti stress vitamins and minerals to your diet could keep you from lying away worrying.

o Keeping a regular sleep schedule works wonders. But if you are not tired at schedules sleep time get up and spend the time relaxing.

o Loose weight. This helps with comfort and sleep apnea.

o Drink less caffeine, this fad could be costing you the sleep you need.

o Quit smoking for over all health and circulation. Getting blood to your extremties can help with sleep.

Sleeping habits that promote healthy living.

o Sleeping less, sleep expert Dr. Daniel Kripke has discovered that people who sleep less live longer and have over all better health.

o Regular sleep times will keep you from delving in to sleep time.

o Good sleep environment like a dark, quiet bedroom dedicated to sleep only will improve your sleep.

o Natural sleep aids are worth looking to. Remember to give them a chance to work. It may take a week or so.

o Worry outside of the bedroom and not while lying in bed. Use your bed for sleep only.

o Meditation and sleep music can help you relax.

I know, you are saying “I heard all this before”. Yes, you have. The key is to gradually change those old habits. Look at your sleep habits. Look at your daily routine. What will be easy to change? Change that. Take those little steps every day.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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Gratitude meditation is a focused meditation exercise. It is a way to express your thanks for the special skills and talents you have, the people in your life, and the many blessings you have received. In sum, all of those things that make your life special are worthy of your gratitude. This practice can be used alongside your regular meditation sessions, or you can devote an entire session to gratitude at regular intervals.

This is one of the most rewarding types of meditation, because it teaches you to be happy with everything you have. You learn how to move from wanting, to feeling content and blissful with what you already have. Instead of troubling yourself by thinking of all that you don’t have, you can instead focus your energy on being thankful for everything you do have. When you do so, you will actually attract more wealth.

You can start your gratitude meditation practice by first choosing a suitable place that is free of distractions. Avoid places with bright lighting. Turn off your cell phone and try to disconnect for a little while. Start by closing your eyes and focusing on your breathing. Identify the thoughts or worries that enter your head and dismiss them. Don’t get angry at yourself if your mind continues to wander; that is the natural habit of the mind. Instead, get back on track by focusing on nothingness. When your body is in a state of relaxation and your mind is calm, you can begin to go over all of the things you are thankful for. You can use generic gratitude affirmations to express your thanks, or you can individualize your practise by thinking of specific things that you are thankful for in your life.

It can be easy to overlook even some of the most basic things to be thankful for. Take your body, for instance. You have eyes that allow you to see the world, you have ears that enable you to listen to music and hear the words of others, and you a mouth that lets you express your truths to others. There is so much more that your body alone can do that you should be thankful for. There are people in your life, and there is beauty in the world. There are endless things to be grateful for.

Practicing gratitude meditation on a regular basis is the best way to move towards happiness. Why? Because unhappiness is actually characterized as a state of desire or want. When you move out of that state by focusing on recognizing the blessings that you do have, you can move towards contentment. It becomes possible for you to understand that you don’t actually need material possessions or any of the other things you desire in life, to be happy. Gratitude meditation is one of the simplest ways to teach yourself to be happy and experience fulfillment in the absence of desire.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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It’s important to have a space set aside in your home for writing. It can be a big cushion in a corner of your closet with a notebook and pen, if that’s all you have room for, or perhaps the back seat of your car because that’s the only place you can get some peace and quiet, but it should be all yours, waiting for you whenever it’s time to write.

If, instead, you go with the more traditional desk (and I’m not knocking the cushion because, really, it’s portable, and you can take it to a park or a friend’s house or a garden or something and have a change of scenery, which is always good), what does this space look like? Is it covered with books or bills or plants or receipts or clothes or dishes from lunch yesterday?

Have a little respect! Move that stuff somewhere else. Get a good lamp, put a picture or quote over your desk, something you won’t mind staring at a lot (there’ll be a lot of staring, trust me), tape some quotes on your monitor to inspire you (but keep an eye on these. When they seem tired because you’ve looked at them so often, put up some new ones.) Keep the area current with things that inspire you, change things up, perhaps on a monthly basis. Here are some ideas:

How about some flowers? Or a plant?

A container of your favorite pens – perfect excuse to go to Staples and buy things you don’t really need but always make you feel better having: labels, hole punch, multi-colored paper clips, blue paper, post-its shaped like flowers…I can hear those waterproof markers calling me now…

A small notebook for jottings – sometimes writing it down before it goes on the computer helps you think and write differently. Make it an attractive notebook, not a spiral with the Power Rangers on it because it was cheap. (Unless you dig the Power Rangers. Then go for it!)

A couple of books you keep going back to for inspiration – when I get stuck I grab one of a few favorite books of poetry or fiction, and look for passages I’ve underlined that might jump start my writing again.

A couple of placemats in a friendly color or pattern covering the desk area – these double as sponges when you scream ‘eureka!’ and knock over your soda in joy because you finally found the most amazing metaphor ever to describe your character’s eating habits.

Have a dictionary and thesaurus nearby. Duh.

If you keep disks of old writing – what am I saying–IF? You better hold onto those fragments and scraps of ‘failed’ writing. Are you crazy? That’s a goldmine – keep those near as well, so you can go back and look for something you might use now and don’t waste time digging in the ‘miscellaneous drawer’ in the kitchen, a box in the basement, the trunk of your car, or your ex-boyfriend’s bathroom closet. Go on, you still have the key don’t you? Go get them!

Your version of worry beads – sometimes I need something for my hands to do while I’m thinking. For some reason, this smooths things out in my head. I keep shells or stones on my desk, because sometimes I find I get anxious when things are going too well, when I’m working on a piece that is zooming along and I need to slow down a bit and make sure I don’t lose any of the ideas as they come pouring in. When it’s all falling into place I worry I might ruin it. It helps to pick up a stone and roll it in my hands and remember to take my time, listen, and stay out of my own way. This works even if things aren’t going all that well. I get great ideas when washing dishes or driving the car. Moving an object between my hands creates a soothing, repetitive motion that allows my mind to relax, consider, drift, while lightly focusing on the object. It’s a sort of meditation and it really works.

One of my favorites – cut out pictures from magazines of people that best represent what your characters look like. Or a picture of their house, the town, their cat. For example: if you’re writing a poem on Paris or winter or winter in Paris, cut out a picture that evokes the mood you’re going for. Tape these up on your monitor. Imagine your characters talking to each other. Fighting. Kissing. Imagine them walking through the streets or staring out the window of the living room. What are they thinking about? What are you thinking about? Visual representations like these can give a huge boost to your writing.

Burning some scented candles or incense – but don’t leave them to run to the store for ice cream or to put the laundry in the dryer. It would really suck if the house burned down and with it the novel you just finished, wouldn’t it? Be safe.

Dress up or down – this is the perfect time to put on the pajamas with the goldfish on them your mother gave you for Christmas. You know, the ones with the matching tank top and socks. Hey, go all out. Put a bow in your hair. Wear a festive necklace. If you’re a guy – time for the team jersey, those silk boxers your girlfriend gave you that you swore you’d never wear, a robe with a scarf at the neck, a tie tied around your forehead or the pajamas with the goldfish on them your mother gave you for Christmas. Be silly. Be weird. Why not? This is not the time for pride. It’s time to do whatever you can to get things flowing. You want to establish a good routine, and then throw something in to shake things up a little.

Try some music to get yourself in the mood – for writing! Take a few minutes to gauge how you’re feeling right now, what you might like to listen to (classical, sounds of rain or birds or the ocean, disco, rap, drumming, the original cast recording of Oklahoma!?) put the cd in and let it take you straight into your imagination.

Also, we know your tricks. Make sure you walked the dog and tivo’ed the game before you sit down. No excuses.

Now, get to it! Remember, setting the right stage for your work, using all the senses, and creating a routine for entering your space cues your brain that it’s time for writing, a habit you definitely don’t want to break.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.