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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You ever feel like you are fighting to swim upstream and the current of life is always working against you. Nothing ever seems easy anymore. After one problem here comes another, and then the next.

Are you always rushing here to there and never finding time to just be? You have developed your routine of preparing yourself for work, putting in (8) hours, coming back home only to find that there is more to do. If you have young children, the obligations can become somewhat overwhelming. So, after you have managed to accommodated the needs of your family its time to prepare yourself to go back to work again?

Overcoming Stress and Anxiety
I have noticed throughout the course of my day, I am always doing something too. I never seem to find the time to just BE. I am always a Human Going or Coming, Talking or Listening, Thinking or Contemplating. Rarely am I a Human Just Being. It is incredible that I am called something that I rarely am. This simple fact has startled me on several occasions and given me an uneasy feeling that something isn’t quite right.

It appears that all my life has been filled with everything, other than simply Being. Bombarded with all of the cares of the world seems so natural now, after so many years of exposure to it. The most difficult thing to do now is just BE, because just Being feels so unusual. If you notice, there are always distractions to keep you away the concepts of learning to BE. There is even music in elevators.

Life can be very challenging indeed and this kind of never-ending routine can lead to a stress-filled life and ultimately to Illness or Death. If you have already reached this point of stress, I have discovered an eBook called Panic Away – End Anxiety and Panic Attacks which may be helpful to you.

It has to be something to this I think, because it is not easy to do, yet everything that keeps you away from doing this appears to be so commonplace. Life has a natural flow to it. Just as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, as night follows day, and as the seasons change throughout the year, yet, it is rare that we experience this flow of ease in our lives.

Discover The Peace Within

We have so many distractions which often interferes with the fluidity of our lives and causes an interruption to our natural state. For many of us chaos has become the common denominator and experiencing what it means to just be is a foreign and far-fetched state of mind.

Almost all forms of Meditation teaches and reinforces our need to come to grips with this concept of BEING. Just BEING is simply getting in touch with who you really and truly are. I believe this is our ultimate tasks here. To discover or rediscover who we are. This rediscovery allows us to align ourselves with the flow of the universe and propel us into our natural state of BEING.
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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Consider this time of year of giving that YOU are the gift to others.

I am thinking quite a bit about blessings and miracles with the approaching holidays.

It is that time of year when we think about giving, receiving, “wrapping things up” (pun intended) for the end of the year and prepare to start a new year, a new beginning and/or a new life.

What is going on with you right this moment? Do you feel excitement and joy? Or do you feel sadness and depression? Maybe you feel an assortment of emotions while you roam the path of your life with visions, scents, sounds, thoughts, memories and other reminders of your past?

Did you lose someone very dear to you during this time of year? Or did you suffer a loss during another time and this is your first holiday without them? Maybe you don’t have custody of your children and this time of year is brutal for you competing with an ex spouse over them.

Different things trigger different feelings in all of us. And the holidays typically affect more people emotionally, bringing about an energy that is definitely noticeable.

I have mixed feelings this time of year. It used to be my favorite season. However, I am disturbed and frustrated in some areas and they are more pronounced during the holidays. I feel like the pressure of others’ wants and desires overwhelm my own, as though I’m forced into situations I don’t want to be a part of. At times the cold overrides the warmth of the season. And yet, I am very blessed with family and friends.

Does this sound ridiculous to you? Some people have a need to be alone and it’s difficult to turn away from loving family members who have sacrificed time, money, vacation, effort, stress, and a lot of planning to make it possible to be together. Others would give anything to have someone to be with and share time and love together during the holidays.

And still others are feeling indifferent.

Regardless which of these categories you fall into, are you grateful for what you have? This season commenced with me feeling mild depression and a bit of anger and frustration because a particular incident that took place in my life right before the Thanksgiving holiday in November. After complaining to a few people about it, I began to listen to what I was saying and realized I was creating my emotions by the way I was thinking.

I came to understand this lesson as a gift to me. I learned I was doing this to myself. I began meditating to connect with my internal self to find out what was really going on and what I was resisting. I discovered that I didn’t want to let go of my anger. I wanted to be right. I wanted to win. This I can change.

Do you find miracles in your pain? Have you noticed the greater the pain, the greater the blessing that comes with the lessons learned? We never stop learning. Some of us are a bit more hard-headed than most and we have a tendency to struggle with our lessons. For me, I have to feel that 2×4 whacked against the side of my head. I guess I don’t appreciate subtle hints or I wouldn’t ignore them so… I am learning to receive.

Christmas, Blessings, Miracles and a Giving Spirit!

Consider this time of year of giving that YOU can be your gift to others. Learn the lesson of receiving with your giving.

You can be the gift. What better way to give? The giving of yourself, your time, your attention, your caring, love, tenderness, thoughtfulness, consideration, appreciation, respect, recognition, kind words, a hug, phone call, hand-written letter, a song or poem, a listening ear, silence when you want to criticize, a smile, a handshake to a foe, a kiss, prayer, blessing or a wink.

Contemplate a spiritual tone to the season. There is a distinguishable and powerfully vibrant energy in the air created by so many feeling in unison. It doesn’t matter what sets it off. It can be a visual of decorations, Christmas music, rich foods, smell of evergreen, spiritual gatherings, church scenery or live nativity scene. Even if you’re not a Christian and you don’t engage in any religious beliefs about Christmas, you can enjoy the nativity performance as a story anyway.

Peace, Love and Joy
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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You don’t need me to tell you that these are tough times economically. Unemployment nationally remains around 10%, home foreclosures continue to ravage the American Dream, and countless savings accounts have been decimated. Against such a backdrop, especially if you’ve been directly affected by the bursting of the bubble, how can you feel anything other than a sense of all-pervading poverty? If you’re trying to manifest abundance by applying the Law of Attraction, you are going to feel the task is next to impossible. You need help to swim against this tide.

The Need To Believe in Abundance

One of the reasons why mainstream journalists were often highly skeptical of The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, was its failure to explain why people are born into poverty. How can it be, they said, that we create our own realities with our thoughts and feelings, when millions of people are suffering in misery through no apparent fault of their own? Ms. Byrne made no attempt to address this issue, and this was a significant omission. She could have suggested, as others have, that behavior in past lives was to blame, but that wouldn’t have gone down too well, either.

But this does not mean that Byrne’s contention (which was hardly original to her) is incorrect. I know from years of personal experience – much of it difficult, confusing, and seemingly inexplicable – that my thoughts and feelings do make a difference to the quality of my reality – that they make things happen. Knowing this, we have to be able to pull off a bit of a mental balancing act: on the one hand, we must be cognitively aware of what is going on in the larger world; but on the other hand, we must be able to leave that reality behind and recognize our individual power to control our own destiny. In a time of economic recession, that means acknowledging the depressing statistics, but still – in the face of all the doom and gloom – being able to conceive of and believe in the kind of life we want. Failing to pull off this balancing act leaves us vulnerable to being submerged by the same waves overcoming others.

Prosperity Meditation – Your Helping Hand

Believing in prosperity is hardest in everyday waking life, when the logical left brain screams “poverty” and the chatter of the rapid Beta brainwave won’t let us get a word in edgewise. To believe in abundance against these odds, we need to enter a calmer, deeper state of awareness, one in which reprogramming of our belief system and consequent expectations can be far more effective. Specifically, this means slowing your brainwaves down to the more powerful territory of low Alpha and Theta waves. Here, we can be in direct communion with our subconscious minds, and can implant in ourselves the kind of “prosperity programming” that we need. If you think in images, use your imagination to visualize the kind of situation you desire. If you are a verbal person, repeat the kinds of words you would say to yourself in that situation, striving to feel it as a present moment reality.

But meditation itself is no easy task when ordinary life is difficult – be that for economic or other reasons. For most people, in fact, meditation is just too hard. This is where the new technology of audio brainwave entrainment can be so wonderfully helpful. Now, anyone with stereo headphones and 15-30 minutes of uninterrupted time can attain deeper states of consciousness and leave negativity behind. It remains important, even with this technical help, not to sabotage your sessions by telling yourself that you are wasting your time, or that your positive affirmations or imagery will not work. They will work, if you give them a chance and leave them alone. Miracles will not happen overnight, but if you persevere you will start to see changes at the margins – encouraging signs that you are moving in the right direction. And the more encouragement you perceive, the easier it will become for you to amplify the power of your meditation sessions and really feel yourself where you want to be.
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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The body has a powerful ability to heal itself when given the tools it needs to stay healthy. We cannot entirely remove anxiety from our lives, but we can create lifestyles that reduce stress and toxins so the natural healing process can take place.

In the eastern hemisphere, medicine targets the mind, body and spirit while western medicine tends to treat symptoms through time-tested scientific methods. Although the two approaches represent opposite ends of the same spectrum, practitioners and clients are discovering that they actually complement each other. Using western and eastern philosophies together is known as integrative medicine.

Scientists now know that everything consists of energy, and that includes everything from our mitochondria to our thoughts and feelings. Our cells send out electrical impulses, collectively creating magnetic energy fields around our bodies. When this energy becomes imbalanced by stress, trauma or toxins, we develop diseases.

The goal of natural medicine, also known as energy healing, is to remove blockages in the body’s energy system so it can return to ideal health. Although new to traditional medicine, this philosophy originated thousands of years ago. Today it encompasses countless methods and theories.

Eight Kinds of Energy Healing

– Energy healers use their hands to send vital life energy to the magnetic field around the body. Modalities include Healing Touch, Pranic Healing, Reiki and medical qigong.

– Chinese medicine revolves around energy channels called meridians. Acupuncture uses needles to stimulate energy points along the meridians while acupressure applies physical force. Energy in Chinese medicine is known as “chi.”

– Qigong is an ancient form of martial arts that uses soft, sweeping motions to bring qi into the body and balance its magnetic field. “Qi” is the Japanese word for energy.

– Yoga, Sanskrit for “joining of the body, mind and spirit,” dates back to Vedic teachings in early India. The practice promotes clean living, gentle poses, breathing techniques and meditation as a way toward balanced living and union with source energy. In yoga, the word for energy is “prana.”

– Massage is a broad term that refers to the physical manipulation of the body’s connective tissues and muscles to bring about healing. Kinds of massage include craniosacral therapy, deep tissue, Swedish, Shiatsu and Thai. Soothing music and aromatherapy go well with the art of massage.

– Emotional Freedom Technique involves the process of tapping on various parts of the body to release buried emotions so it can replenish its own energy.

– Sound therapy uses sound vibrations to resonate with different parts of the body. Like energy, sound waves vibrate at specific speeds and are able to repair subtle energy patterns.

– Meditation refers to a group of techniques that use the mind to change one’s state of awareness. Its physical, mental and spiritual benefits are well-documented by scientific research.

Although there are many other techniques of natural healing, all seek to return the energetic body to its original state so that physical and emotional healing can occur. All kinds of healing are most effective when used as part of a daily practice. Most methods complement each other and western medicine.
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.

how to meditate for beginners | zen meditation music
Yoga is a great and very relaxing way to tone and strengthen the body as well as relieve stress and calm the mind. Yoga music can enhance this experience, making yoga a truly euphoric experience. If you want to make doing yoga the perfect exercise, adding some music may do the trick.

Meditative music completes even the most relaxing yoga workout by adding a little something extra. Yoga music ranges from the most serene instrumental sounds to different chants. All yoga music is meant to keep your mind and spirit calm while keeping you focused on the yoga exercises.

Yoga music can be therapeutic, relaxing, even hypnotic, helping to drive the person to complete the full set of yoga stretches. The music adds depth to the level of relaxation that is achieved while doing yoga. Let go with your favorite yoga tunes and complete your yoga routine to provide ample satisfaction. Relaxing meditative music is a particular must for beginners, because it enables their brain to fixate on the sounds. This allows them to concentrate and not become distracted by outside noises, keeping them relaxed and focused.

There are many different types of yoga music, they can be energizing, relaxing, or both. A person can choose from many different types of yoga CD’s or MP3’s. There are special yoga CD’s that can be purchased with a variety of different music. There is meditation, natural relaxation, classical, Celtic, as well as many other types of relaxing music that are appropriate when doing yoga. The type of music you choose should depend on what you find relaxing. Sometimes a yoga CD can be the answer, but can be distracting if there are songs the person doesn’t care for so listening to it ahead of time to see if it going to be something you will enjoy is a must.

When you choose to do yoga and want to relax, coupling it with some relaxing yoga music can help keep you concentrated at the task at hand, give you deeper relaxation, and aid in the completion of your yoga session. Yoga music can be any type of music you find relaxing and will depend on the person, however; it is typically instrumental music. Yoga is a great way to tone your body and relax the mind, and with the right music, it can be a truly relaxing experience. Find a CD that has the music you want to relax to and start your yoga routine.
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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Many people use Holysync as an effective mind optimization technique. If you don’t know what Holosync is, I’ll tell you. Basically it uses audio programming with binaural beats to change brain wave activity.

Reducing stress is much easier with the help of products that change brain wave activity to help reach a meditative state more quickly. Ongoing studies show that reducing stress using meditation techniques have a variety of benefits, including Lowering Cholesterol (American Heart Association); reducing chronic pain, anxiety, and high blood pressure (National Institutes of Health),lowers blood pressure (American Journal of Hypertension) and improves artery health by as much as 69 percent (American Heart Association).

There are a lot of products other than Holysync that are used to reduce stress. Other mind optimizing methods that can also reduce stress include: Hypnosis, general Meditation, and Biofeedback, not to mention a good exercise that could include Yoga and Pilates. You can also use isochronic tones to reduce stress.

The advantages to using Isochronic tones over binaural beats are very clear. Binaural beats require headphones because they working using two separate tones, played differently into each ear. The tones then create a pulse, or “beat.” Users will not notice the separate tones because it is all done very fast. On the other hand, Isochronic tones do not require headphones. Only one tone is used, but it is manually spaced to turn on and off in a particular pattern. This makes it more effective because the brain doesn’t have to do the extra work of putting the two tones together.

While Isochronic tone is a new development it was not presented without being fully tested. In 1999, the Journal of Neurotherapy published a case study conducted by Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D. He tested 8 struggling college students. After using both audio and visual brainwave stimulation, the students significantly increased their grade point average, and their GPA continued to rise even after treatment was discontinued!

Isochronic tones reduce stress and have all of the benefits of Holysync, but instead of binaural beats, they use monaural and isochronic tones for what the creator, Morry Zelecovitch calls “brainwave entrainment. I know those are a few big words, but Morry is a certified “Brainwave Entrainment Engineer/Specialist.” He has worked with the leaders in brainwave technology to develop this process — and he definitely knows what he’s talking about!

Holosync products are very expensive, and are not guaranteed. However, it has more to do with how your brain reacts to certain stimuli. Some things work on some people, while others do not. Meditation is a good example. It can take some time to be comfortable with Meditation products, and many people quite before they get any benefits. With isochronic tones, many people are able to obtain a comfortable meditative state quickly, and for MUCH less cost.

Isochronic Tones have the power to: Reduce stress, enhance creativity, acquire a more positive attitude, develop better relationships, boost motivation, dissolve the mental and emotional blocks and resistance that hold you back from success, and much more.

This could possibly revolutionize the entire self-improvement industry!
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.

theta brain waves | play meditation music
Although many people are suffering from insomnia or sleeplessness, there are some simple ways that can help them get good sleep. Sleep habits and environmental factors can greatly affect sleep quality. This article will give you some important tips on how to sleep better.

Sleep hygiene is dependent upon:

o The circadian cycle of the person
o Age
o Stress factors
o Addictives like alcohol, nicotine and caffeine

Circadian cycle

If you have a steady circadian rhythm, you are likely to be getting good sleep. However, there are things like exercise, the amount of exposure to light, frequency of naps etc that can disturb a steady circadian cycle.

Aging

An infant needs 16 to 20 hours of sleep while an adult will be healthy with 7 to 9 hours. Once you cross 40, your sleep patterns change considerably. Many people who wonder about how to sleep better need to understand that age is a major factor here. Another important note is that the more you wake up in your sleeping hours, the less quality of sleep.

Psychological Stressors

There are many things that lead to stress in a person’s life. However, the key to getting good sleep is to be able to let go of all tension before jumping into bed. If you take your stresses with you to bed, then 9 times out of 10 you will not be able to get a good night’s sleep. Thus, make a mental note of this point and no matter how stressed out you are, ensure that you just let go of it all when you go to bed.

In order to overcome stress before going to bed, you can try relaxation techniques like meditation. You can also listen to some soothing music to help you tune off and de – stress.

Social or Recreational Drugs

Certain addictives like nicotine, alcohol or caffeine has a negative effect on your sleep. For example, caffeine makes you wake up at night frequently and disrupts sleep. Thus, it actually lowers the total time of your sleep. Nicotine acts in a similar manner. However, nicotine in low doses can also act as a sedative but when taken excessively, it can lead to sleeplessness.

Although alcohol is commonly believed to be a sedative, it can result in awakenings when it metabolizes on your body. In fact, the arousals can even lead to other problems like headaches and sweating. A deadly combination that you have to steer clear of if you want to know how to sleep better is nicotine and caffeine together. It has adverse effects on your sleeping patterns and makes you uncomfortable when you wake up, with feelings of tiredness and grogginess.
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 song mp3 | powerful meditation music
According to a recent report in the American Journal of Hypertension, meditation really can lower your blood pressure. Of course, its practitioners have known this for years but now their claims have some high-level reinforcement.

Many earlier studies also lent support to meditation for blood pressure reduction but an influential report published in 2007 refuted this. It concluded that research on meditation is low quality and found that there was little evidence that stress reduction effectively lowers blood pressure.

But the new study, published in March 2008, is especially significant as a review, or meta-study, of previous trials conducted on the influence of meditation and other forms of relaxation on blood pressure. The trials used all had to meet strict criteria for high-quality scientific research and they show that meditation produces “statistically significant” reductions in blood pressure.

The Benefits of Meditation

The compiled studies show that practicing transcendental meditation lowered blood pressure by an average of nearly 5 points systolic and 3.2 points diastolic. Participants claim that reductions would be even greater if readings had been taken in the home environment and without the disruption caused by frequent blood pressure readings during the tests.

These reductions may not seem like a lot but they are actually comparable to results obtained by some blood pressure medications. Both researchers and practitioners believe that meditation of this type helps to relax and open blood vessels, which results in lower blood pressure. The study’s author, Dr. James W. Anderson, explains: “adding transcendental meditation is about equivalent to adding a second antihypertension agent to one’s current regimen, only safer and less troublesome.”

Meditation vs. other Methods of Relaxation

Interestingly, the research shows that not all forms of relaxation produce the same blood pressure results as meditation, particularly the variety known as transcendental meditation. This fact may have influenced the 2007 study, which concluded that relaxation had no lasting effects on blood pressure.

Transcendental meditation, however, is different from other forms of merely passive relaxation. For one thing, transcendental meditation does not involve focus or concentration and is therefore a purer form of relaxation.

But a more important way in which transcendental meditation differs from simple relaxation is in its use of regulated breathing. Passive relaxation alone tends to have only temporary results. But relaxation combined with a therapeutic method of breathing, often called slow breathing, is clinically proven to produce powerful and lasting drops in high blood pressure. This could well be the magic ingredient that makes transcendental meditation especially effective in controlling hypertension.

Alternatives to Meditation

But what if you’re not especially keen on meditation? Or what if you just want to emphasize the breathing part of it and get the maximum benefits for your blood pressure?

In that case a new method called slow breathing with music may be just the thing. Slow breathing with music combines breathing techniques clinically optimized to lower high blood pressure with relaxing music. It provides the intensive relaxation of meditation along with proven blood pressure reductions that average 16 points systolic over 8 points diastolic. Slow breathing with music has been shown especially effective with hypertensives who have proved resistant to other forms of treatment.
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.

the meditation | soft soothing music
Wind chimes can help relieve stress. Pure and carefully tuned sound is a powerful tool when along with different meditative stress-relieving techniques to ease physical and emotional pressures on the body and mind. We often realize that when troubled with a particularly difficult problem, clearing the mind enables not just for the body to release where we hold this worry, but also frees us to new possibilities and solutions.

The use of hand tuned high quality wind chimes really helps to focus awareness and makes practicing these strategies much simpler, as the tunes intertwine and are pleasing to the ear. For those who are suffering from physical pains, utilizing relaxing and stress reducing techniques can ease our responses and break up larger regions of discomfort, helping us better take care of our ourselves. Simply allowing time to slow our bodies down and clear our minds, helps us all better handle what comes our way in life. As you participate in meditation with wind chimes use their gentle ringing as an indication of your intentions, allowing deeper and further release into your practice.

Wind chimes also make important anniversary gifts, and make perfect gifts for Mother’s Day. This is because a wind chime is symbolic of peace and harmony. They are symbolic of the feng shui attitude of compatibility: dealing with the forces of nature to generate a positive, tangible energy flow. It doesn’t matter if your living space can be defined as Southwest decor or a more unique home decor hard to define using conventional interior decorating terms. There are so many sizes and styles of wind chimes, one is sure to boost and compliment your home or garden yard.

Tuned with precision, the various lengths and diameters of tubular pipes produce a different range of tones, each of which harmonize with the other. Some wind chimes are reminiscent of church bells, although some carry tones that echo the spirit of nature and hint of the exotic. Those educated in music are especially appreciative of precision tuned wind chimes. Place two smaller ones at opposite ends of a garden on fence posts, or a larger one centered in the middle, dangling from a shepherd’s crook. Select a location for the wind chime that will enhance the sense of peace and calm and mingle with the natural sounds of nature, helping to mute unwanted background noise that clutters the mind, such as traffic and barking dogs.

Wind chimes have been established for countless years, which imply that there could be hundreds of them now sold as vintage items. Chimes are stunning, not to mention they’re great storytellers and a pleasant addition to any home. If you wish to purchase an old wind chime, then you’ve got to make certain that it’s still of good quality. A rustic feel is unquestionably welcome. However, the chime should still produce a quality sound -soothing and calming to the ears.
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.

binaural beats therapy | binary sounds
Yesterday, I listened to an interview with Michael York, the film star. I listened half-heartedly at first and then with fascination. By the end of the conversation I had discovered at least one inspiring truth i.e. It is well worth listening to other people without prejudging what they can teach you.

It is amazing how much other humans can teach us. But if we don’t believe that they can teach us something, we will not listen to them nor will we read their books or listen to their audios or watch their videos and DVD’s. We will miss out on huge amounts of valuable information.

Michael York (D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers) went to the USA about 30 years ago and has lived there longer than he lived in the UK.

He was not tempted to join other UK actors like Oliver Reed in alcoholic and drug excesses. He could see no sense in not being at his best. Life is too interesting.

He now lives in California with his American wife where it is easy to live a healthy lifestyle. He asks: “Why wait until you get ill and then go to a doctor to clean up the mess? Why not take preventive measures to keep you in optimum shape? We take care of our cars; why not our own bodies?”

He takes herbs and vitamins and a chiropractic treatment once a week. He does not believe in treating the head (or mind) without taking the body into account. He prefers a holistic approach.

He has a thoughtful faith. “I have a faith but not a faith that wears a label. It’s an amalgamation of all sorts of influences. I was raised in the Church of England and was brought up with the beauty of the English Bible. It never leaves you but I get resentful at fundamentalist Christianity when it becomes my God and not your God.”

Agnosticism is part of his amalgamation of influences: “There’s nothing we can be sure of until we pass into the next dimension.”

He was very impressed by a comment from his friend Peter Ustinov: “You know, we are united by our doubts and divided by our convictions.”
York comments: “In the world today, that is so true”.

When he was asked “Do you believe in an afterlife?”, he gave a fascinating and inspiring reply:

“If you get into the study of health and the body you find out that we are all energetic organisms. The whole world is a compact of different energies. It seems quite plausible that there is a different sort of energy operating after life”

“Do you meditate?”
“I have tried to meditate but I am a little impatient I confess. I do listen to classical music, if I can, all day. That is an equivalent of meditating. Somehow those great rhythms do wonderful things to your mind and body.”

I learned a lot from Michael York yesterday about health, meditation and life after death but the greatest lesson of all was:

Have enough faith to listen to other people, whoever they are, and to read their books. You might learn something worth learning! You might even be excited and inspired.

You don’t have to agree with everything other people say but at least listen to their views and you may well hear something you have never heard before or have never heard expressed so well before.

If you have a stack of books you have not read or a stack of videos you have not watched just start reading and watching. You might be amazed at what you will learn!

Even if you have read the books before or watched the videos before, read and watch them again. It is surprising how much valuable information we forget. We all need reminding and inspiring again and again.
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.