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sleep meditation Programming Organ Recitals: What Are Bachelor’s Degree Level Pieces?

1. Praeludium in C, BuxWV 137 by Dieterich Buxtehude. One of the most famous of all of Buxtehude’s organ works will serve well for the opening of your recital. This is a perfect example of multi-movement North German Baroque Stylus Phantasticus writing. This work is also known as Prelude, Fugue, and Chaconne in C major.

2. Chorale Prelude “Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott”, BuxWV 199 by Buxtehude. This is an ornamented chorale prelude – a perfect example of Buxtehude’s style. This piece will make a good contrast with the preceding and following pieces.

3. Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541 by Johann Sebastian Bach. A joyful prelude with elements of Ritornello form. You will find a complex Stretto section towards the end of the fugue.

4. Chorale Prelude “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland”, BWV 659 by Bach. A very famous chorale prelude from the collection of Great 18 Chorales (Leipzig Chorale Preludes). Slow tempo and fascinating ornamented chorale melody in the right hand part.

5. Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat Major, BWV 525 by Bach. This is the easiest of all of 6 trio sonatas by this composer. However, the organists will still encounter many technical challenges which have to be overcome at the Bachelor’s degree recital.

6. Organ Concerto Op. 4, No. 5 in F Major, HWV 293 by George Frederic Handel. This is the shortest of 6 most famous organ concertos by Handel. It consists of four contrasting movements: Larghetto, Allegro, Alla Siciliana, and Presto.

7. Allegretto, Op. 1 by Louis Vierne. A rarely performed early work of Vierne of moderate difficulty. Nice ABA form with charming oboe melody in the right hand.

8. Meditation from the Suite Medievale by Jean Langlais. Very colorful French style modal writing. Slow tempo makes it a wonderful preparation for what is coming next in your program.

9. Chorale No. 3 by Cesar Franck. This is perhaps the most famous and the easiest of all of 3 chorales of Franck. A perfect closing piece for your recital – very dramatic work with a beautiful slow middle section.

Take any or all of the above pieces and start practicing for your recital today. The compositions from this list constitute a recital of approximately 1 hour of duration which is an optimum length for organ recital. They provide a welcome variety in character, mood, tempo, mode, keys, and registration for positive listener experience.
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.

sleep meditation Manage Your Stress With These Techniques

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If people knew what the medical ramifications of stress were with regards to their health, they would all take it much easier. In fact stress is literally a killer. Many people who suffer from heart attacks and strokes are people who suffer from high levels of stress. In order to stay healthy and live longer it is extremely important to make use of the best stress reduction techniques the world has to offer. One way of doing this is to listen to calming music and meditate, simply clearing your mind and getting in touch with your inner self is seriously helpful in reducing stress. It does not matter how strange these methods may appear to other people at the end of the day if something can benefit your life and health it is seriously worth it to give it a go.

One of the best stress reduction techniques is simply learning how to set your boundaries and say no. You need to know where your limits are and not keep being afraid to say no because you think it may offend others. You need to protect yourself and your health at all times. If you know that certain things trigger high levels of stress and they are things which you need to do such as work tasks then try and make use of healthier coping techniques, such as going outside for a breath of fresh air every so often or drinking some ice cold water.

Another simple yet effective technique is simply to avoid people who stress you out, they really are not worth it and if somebody makes you feel that bad then they are not worth being in your life. It may be hard to make these changes to your life and the changes alone may stress you out but in the long run,eliminating your stress for later in life will save you years of stress which you didn’t have to experience. The important part is to always do what is best for you and try and take a break from hard work, even if it is just five minutes out of your day, these five minutes will make all the difference in the world.

If you try and eliminate your bad unhealthy habits you will find that you end up feeling healthier, happier and less stressed. Something as simple as eating five different fruits and vegetables combined each day will help give your body the nutrients it needs. Once your body is healthier you will start feeling better and will be able to relax more.

You should also limit the amount of cups of coffee you drink as it can add to stress and increase your heart rate which you can well imagine is not a good thing when you are already stressed out to begin with. Find ways that help you relax, if relaxing to you means going for long walks on the beach with your dog then make sure that you do this on a regular basis even if it just once a week. Make sure to always look after yourself and your best interests because stress really is a killer and effective stress management can go a long way.
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.

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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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I always wondered why I had a pull towards the power of theatre, or drama as a whole. As I progressed through my career I realised that although I was specialising in drama, what captured my imagination was the power of storytelling in any medium. In my early days though I think I was impressed by a vehicle where one could express potent and extreme emotions in public. Theatre is, of course, not only that but it is one of its roles. And if you are witnessing a supreme performance which embraces powerful emotions with which you can identify it is probably offering you empathy. I often see great drama as the public version of private therapy. Naturally the drama has to relate to you and sometimes it doesn’t, there is no resonance, and you might even leave the theatre (or indeed cinema) untouched. If there is no resonance then it is not for you but if there is then, like profound art or profound music, profound drama – either as an exponent or as a member of the audience – can begin to help heal.

I realise now that this is what had driven me to write in the first place – catharsis. A healing process. I was working in the professional theatre as a stage manager and occasional actor but realised there was not much I was working on with which I had empathy. Mostly potboilers, entertainment distractions – the type of drama that gets bums on seats in a recession (this being during the oil crisis of the early seventies) but nothing really which looked at our “stuff”, the human condition. “Stuff”, which in the theatre, we can find really uncomfortable. Sure, if theatres and cinemas are just emporia of entertainment then there’s no place for the heavy brigade, although there is a fine tradition of combining “meaning of life” dramas with rollicking good entertainment stretching back to The Greeks and probably beyond (how would I know?). Nowadays though, and increasingly, plays with inherent meaning are not so popular anymore and if there is no inherent meaning there is unlikely to be catharsis. But any storytelling with inherent meaning has not often been populist which is why Carl Jung will never outsell Agatha Christie (and, yes, Carl Jung’s case histories and his archetypes are stories.) I, however, was thirsty for new plays and films (and indeed books) that inspired me. And if they weren’t there maybe I would have to write what I would like to see myself. (Caveat: there were good plays and films and stories around, more so then than now, but they weren’t exactly standard fayre, particularly in the provinces where I was cutting my teeth.)

So I started writing. My plays, although in the main critically well-received, were nihilistic and devoid of optimism, In retrospect I realised I was expressing my pain and anger, my childhood griefs, and therefore embarking on an unconscious (then) process of healing. In effect healing through storytelling. Some time later when I was chatting with a friend who, training as a psychotherapist, was going through her own psychotherapy and uncovering her anger and pain, I casually remarked that I had so much anger in me as a young man but it seemed to have dissipated and I wasn’t sure why. My friend looked at me with surprise. Didn’t I realise that by writing about it I had helped to release it? Indeed, looking back at my early work I realised how much anger there is in them. (A first 105 minute play for BBC Radio 3 was so raw about my childhood that my family knew nothing about it, I couldn’t tell them for fear of hurting them.) I became conscious that through storytelling I had initiated my own healing.

Then, after a huge emotional crisis which just happened to be in the year of the Harmonic Convergence, I found myself dragged kicking and screaming into a more conventional healing world, firstly more standard stuff like homeopathy and latterly studying and using psycho-energetic healing in clinics in London and the south of England. It was around this period that the emphasis in my writing changed. I had embraced some spiritual perspectives and disciplines such as meditation and overtone chanting and I was no longer prepared to offer no hope. From that time on whatever crises my protagonists went through in my stories – and you can’t have drama without conflict and crisis – there had to be light at the end of the tunnel. I did not want people coming away from my stories feeling negative. And it was as if, once the door to a healing world had been knocked upon through storytelling, a whole new world of healing showed itself. As I embarked on more conscious healing work and meditation practice my perspectives changed. No longer did I want to reflect my previous model of reality of being a meaningless organism on a rock in a sterile solar system. Storytelling had led me into this new world of meaning and now, since I still loved the process of creative expression through stories – and it was my living – I was determined that my stories would also be devoted to growth and healing and, yes, love. (Sometimes much to the ridicule of the national press).

I’m not suggesting storytelling is a substitute for therapy but it’s a great aid. I chose the medium of drama since I love the theatre and the collaborative process but the same principles apply to all forms of storytelling. Impossible to divorce yourself from who you are, who you are must come through your means of self-expression – whatever medium you choose, writing, art, music, dance – if you have the opportunity to use it.

What you write will reflect, however consciously you try not to do this, how you see the world. And once your healing is underway it could be that your stories offer other people empathy. And catharsis. And healing.

Expressing what and how we feel is a fundamental need of the human psyche. If we don’t pressure builds up until we implode or explode. And if this is axiomatic then expressing it well, communicating it well, is even more cathartic. Storytelling is one means of expressing how we feel for we are nothing without our stories.
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.

relaxing music Stress Management

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Any sort of continuous stress might lead to mind-body disorders that sometime pose a threat to one’s normal living style. Immediate disorders such as dizzy spells, anxiety attacks, tension, sleeplessness, nervousness and muscle cramps are some of the common symptoms of stress attacks and these can cause chronic health problems as well. This kind of symptoms often affects one’s immune, cardiovascular and nervous systems that make individuals indulge themselves in habitual addictions.

One of the most essential stress buster tools is recognizing the stressor. At times, people fail to realize that they are reacting under stress. Therefore, it is necessary to realize if their behavior is controlled by any stressful situation or not. Some of the common problems such as rapid palpitation, dizzy spells, tight muscles or various body aches are a clear signal that things are not normal and this is time when one should know how to cope with the situations. Talking to a counselor also helps in such situations. One can always cope with stressful situations faster if he or she can encounter then voluntarily.

Laughter is one of the most effective stress management tools till date. It lowers blood pressure and reduces hypertension. Adopting a humorous view towards life’s situations can take the edge off everyday stressors. Taking trivial matters in a less serious fashion helps maintaining the equanimity of mind and promotes clear thinking. Besides, physical exercises, daily work outs, listening to music, partying in the weekend, spending time with dear ones and reading inspirational books do a great job in managing stress.

Stress management techniques though vary according to the theoretical paradigm adhered to, yet can include the following:

o Exercise
o Getting a hobby
o Deep breathing
o Meditation
o Stress balls
o Natural medicine
o Clinically validated alternative treatments
o Time management
o Autogenic training
o Cognitive therapy
o Relaxation techniques
o Artistic Expression
o Relaxation techniques
o Artistic Expression
o Conflict resolution
o Fractional relaxation
o Nootropics (smart drugs, memory enhancers, and cognitive enhancers)
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.

relaxing music How to Conquer Procrastination

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Can you conquer procrastination? Yes you can. First you have to determine why you are procrastinating. Second you need to evaluate how important the task is and how much effort you are willing to invest in overcoming the causes of procrastination and accomplishing your task or goal. Finally you need to do it.

There are 7 primary causes of procrastination:

Fear: the first and most common of the psychological impediments is fear. Fear usually only strikes when the task is new, difficult, or dangerous.

Lack of self confidence / Low self esteem: for various reasons arising from your personal experience in life you may suffer from a lack of self confidence, low self esteem or both. Self esteem and self confidence is not the same thing. They are related. Self esteem is a person’s sense of self worth.

Depression / Mental Illness: various mental illnesses and clinical depression can also cause procrastination. In most instances mental illness and chronic or serious clinical depression require professional intervention to resolve.

It is no fun: Let’s face it, sometimes we procrastinate simply because the task ahead of us is no fun.

The jobs that never end; some jobs, by their very nature, never end and never reach any sense of completion.

Outside of comfort zone; another reason people procrastinate is because the task before them is outside their comfort zone. It may be outside their area of expertise, outside their area of interest or outside their area of competence.

It is too big! The task or project is simply too big, too complex, too costly or too difficult for you to do.

THE SOLUTIONS!

THE SOLUTION TO FEAR: the solution to fear is always the same, it is simple, terrifyingly simple actually, but it is not easy. You conquer fear by confronting it. This does not mean that if you are afraid of snakes you climb directly into a pit of vipers and lie down amongst them for an hour or so. It means you gradually desensitize yourself from the fear.

There are three steps to desensitizing yourself to fear: First, identify any way to simplify the problem or reduce the fear factor;

Second, use visualization techniques to banish the image of fear; and

Third, rehearse.

THE SOLUTION TO LOW SELF CONFIDENCE: a lack of self confidence is really a fear of failure. In many ways the most effective cure for low self confidence is success. Build small successes first, the ones you know you can do. Once you have done the small things well, build up to bigger ones, and gradually you will develop the level of self confidence you need to tackle the harder and bigger projects.

THE SOLUTION TO JOBS THAT ARE NOT FUN: if we have to do them some time it is best to get them done now, because rarely is a no-fun job easier or more fun if you wait. It is usually harder, the grease is dried on, there is less time to do the job, you feel more tired, etc.

Second, reward yourself. You will be surprised that this does work.

THE SOLUTION TO THE JOB THAT NEVER ENDS- First, find any variation, any fun, any amusement you can in what you do.

Second, if you cannot make the job fun, make it as efficient and as quick as you can. Devise ways to be more efficient at the task. If possible purchase tools and machines to simplify your task.

Third, if you cannot have fun nor make it more efficient, then consider incidental benefits.

THE SOLUTION TO BEING OUTSIDE OUR COMFORT ZONE: You can move into our comfort zone with practice. Remember how it felt the first time you rode a bicycle, drove a stick shift, tied a tie, played a musical instrument; you were all thumbs, you were out of your comfort zone. Then, after practice and practice you developed comfort; you brought the new task or challenge within your comfort zone and another reason to procrastinate is gone.

THE SOLUTION TO THE JOB THAT IS TOO BIG! Whether it is cleaning out a horrendous cluttered garage or managing a multi-phase business project the key is to break it down. Anyone can accomplish each small step, and once each small step is done the project is done. In essence you did not have to tackle a large project; you simply and easily tackled many small steps.

Procrastination is your mind’s way of avoiding that which you do not want to do or you do not see purpose or reward in doing. Fool your mind, provide the purpose or the reward, or distract your mind through entertainment, or if you have a mind to, devote your effort to the task at hand as a form of meditation in work.
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.

meditation music Alternative Treatments For Cancer

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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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Cancer has become a localized disease. An orthodox doctor in a traditional way aggressively attacks cancer by cutting out the tumor and flooding the body with toxic drugs. Their belief is that this is the best way to destroy the tumor. But often the cancer is still present and spreads everywhere. They fail to understand that cancer is a systemic disease and it spreads all over the body. Tumor is just the symptom for cancer and there are various alternative treatments/therapies focus on rebuilding the natural immunity of the body. By rebuilding the natural immunities, the ability to destroy cancer cells on its own gets strengthened.

Chemotherapy, Radiation and Surgery are the three proven methods for treating cancer. These methods may actually shorten life in many instances. All these methods of treatment have demoralizing side effects and only acts as a treatment for symptoms. The probability of recurrence of cancer is high. These therapies at times may be necessary for rare forms of cancer and the early stage of the disease. It has been observed that cancer is the second most dreadful disease in United States of America and most of the cancer patients die of chemotherapy.

Now there are dozens of alternative cancer treatments available. Each of which works only on a minority of patients who try it. There is no best treatment for certain type of cancer. The doctors/medical consultants are the one who are entitled to identify the best treatment method for a patient depending on the type of cancer and the stage of the cancer. Conventionally doctors suggest the newest treatment available. But this is completely wrong because not all the patients suffer from similar cancer and the stage of cancer may vary from person to person. Now patients themselves opt for the alternative treatment of cancer as the cost involved in it is less and the recurrence of the disease is much less compared to the conventional way. One should not choose a particular type of treatment just because it worked for a friend. Out of all the alternative treatments available like ACUPUNCTURE, AROMATHERAPY, BIOFEEDBACK, EXERCISE, HYPNOSIS, MASSAGE THERAPY, MEDITATION, MUSIC THERAPY, RELAXATION TECHNIQUES, TAI CHI, YOGA, one can choose any of these depending on the type of disease and stage of the disease.
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.

meditation music 12 Easy Steps to Talk to Your Angel Or Spirit Guide

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Find a set of Scramble tiles, or make a set of tiles from index cards. Use only the tiles with consonants.
Find a cloth bag and place them into it.
Get a pad of paper and pencil or pen to use for making notes.
Set up a space where you can work and will be disturbed as little as possible,
Play meditation music. Softly to help set the tone. There are many meditation cads available at your book store or discount store. You can also download them from major booksellers or websites like iTunes.
Light a candle. White is preferred. One with scented with frankincense is recommended. Myrrh can also be used. If you can’t find a candle with this scent, the same scent essential oils in a warmer will work too. You can even buy votive candles at the grocery store with an angel scent.
Center yourself. Take three deep breathes. Expanding your belly with air each time you breathe in.
State your intention.
Ask your Guide or Angel to communicate with you. You might make a statement like this, “Dear Spirit Guide or Angel, please guide me to draw the letters that spell your Spiritual Name, so that I might call specifically upon you for advice and help. Please provide this information in a way I can understand. (This will help if you happen to have a guide who lived in another country, or with angels whose vibrations are sometimes difficult to understand.)
Shake the bag and then reach into it and select a tile. Just reach for the one that feels right. Don’t try tofind the right one. Write down the letter after you draw a tile, writing each letter in sequence. Allow your Higher Self guide you in how many tiles to draw from the bag.
After you have drawn all the tiles and written them down. You can also add EL at the end of the sequence as many angelic names have that suffix.
Add whatever vowels feel right for you. For example, if you have drawn G, B, and R, add el so that you have GBREL. Now choose the vowels that seem to make sense to you. Don’t over think it. Go with what comes up in your mind and don’t forget you may need to sound it out for the name to make sense.

Once you have mastered drawing for your Spirit Guides and Angels names (Most people have several.) Try asking questions. For example: “Which of my angels will be working with me today?””What Spirit Guide should I call upon for help with ____”

As you work with the tiles, conversing with your guides and angels will become easier. Your questions and answers will become more complex and before you know it, you’ll be in full communication.
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.

brain waves Are You Short Tempered?

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However the modern inquisitive mind always needs to see things fitting into its requirements. And, today one of the greatest requirements of the professional and personal development is to control one’s temper. Thus our modern logical mind has very rightly formulated the yoga medicine to cure the anger. Actually, Yoga is nor meant for anger management, neither for stress management, not even for increasing memory! Yoga is a holistic way to control the mind and all the ‘management’ stuffs mentioned are just the byproducts of it.

There are three ways to deliver anger.

First is to suppress it. This is achieved through certain techniques that primarily involve delaying the response to the anger by counting, or drinking water or taking deep breaths etc.

Second is to express it at inappropriate objects (of course not at the so called reason of anger). This may be done by keeping your bad boss’s picture in your home and punching at it regularly.
I am not joking, it really works in a wonderful way!

And the third way is to divert your attention from the subject of anger. This can be done by reading book, watching a movie, listening to your favorite piece of music.

These three ways are, however, just workarounds for the anger, they are not the solution for anger. The suppression and diversion are equivalent to piling up of explosives, one right (or rather wrong) spark and it will blow up everybody around, including itself. These methods, in a long run, are damaging to the mind and consequently the body. The other method of expression of anger is ineffective in a long run and after sometime you’ll get fed up with punching the photo of your boss and again start feeling like actually killing him.

Then, what different way has Yoga got for anger management?
The yoga doesn’t prescribe us the way to control anger; rather it makes us surpass it. Which means not to get angry at all! This is possible by first changing our outlook to anger and other different emotions of humans. They are nothing but the instant reactions to the environment guided by our previous conditionings. Thus, first we should come out of the belief that the way I am reacting is the only appropriate way to react to the particular situation. There is really no loss in not getting angry! We can experience the anger, the cause of anger, and the process of getting angry and still be happy. In fact this is the only way we can be happy.

Now, the secret is that we cannot learn some tricks and apply it when anger strikes us. Rather we need to develop a habit of not getting angry. Anger management is not about managing anger after it has occurred; it is about staying away from anger.

Learn the meditation and pranayaam, and get your mind away from day to day frenzy. This will initiate you towards the control of mind, which is essential in controlling anger. Along with this discovery of peace of mind, keep questioning yourself about why you get irritated, what leads to it, are there any similarities in the process of you getting irritated every time? Ask yourself about the thought patterns that arise in your mind following the fit of anger. Keep getting deeper into these questions by running the process of you getting angry in your mind several time. Just sit and recall some of the instances when your were furious. Now, try to remember each minute detail of the steps that lead to the explosion of your temper. Initially, this practice may make you angry once again. But, if you do this for 3-4 times you will cease getting angry and you will start noticing at least some of the stupidity involved from your side. Then as you go on you will find the sheer uselessness of anger at some of the moment. You will yourself declare that for 90% of the time your getting angry was idiotic.

Now, once you have realized it, do not just laugh it away. Try to remember this fact every time you feel your blood pressure building up. Now do not say that you are angry before you can realize that you are going to be angry. Just practice, and then you’ll be able to notice each breath coming. Yoga helps you to become more and more aware of you physical and mental activities by teaching you pranayaam. Pranayaam is actually subsiding your breathing process to the maximum extent. This helps you to feel each breath coming in and going out. Thus you will know what is meant by being witness to a physical activity. Then comes the meditation that will make you observe the thoughts in your mind. Thus you’ll be able to become witness to the mental and physical activities.
Apply this and become observant to the process of anger. Become witness to the anger itself. With this attitude you will be able brush-off those situations with a smile that makes others angry.
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.

meditation music Six Steps to a Successful Meditation

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Those who know how to meditate the right way are able to relax and open their minds to whatever results they hope to achieve through meditating.

Learning how to meditate properly need not be a difficult venture as long as one is aware of the basic guidelines of proper meditation.

Instructions on How to Meditate

A. Choose a place that is quiet, the ideal place would be a place that is not frequented by friends and relatives as they are likely to disturb your peace. Most people opt for their bedrooms, bathrooms or even a quiet place out in the countryside. Any place would work well as long as you are alone and at peace.

B. Set up your chosen place of meditation with items that will help you focus. Some people will light candles while turning off the electric light for a more relaxed atmosphere. This is because dim light always seems to help in relaxing the mind.

C. For those who love it, incense will also help you to relax. Different scents are lit for different purposes, for example, sage incense is said to ward off negative energy.

D. Make sure you are comfortable as you meditate, get a comfortable cushion or coach, sitting on a hard surface will break your concentration.

E. Pick out an object within your surroundings to focus on. This object could be your candle flame or something that will easily pull the eye. If you wish, you can focus on nothing at all.

Breathe in deeply after closing your eyes and finding your focus. With a whoosh, exhale your deep breath while taking note of your breath patterns. Focus on your diaphragm and try to breath from it. The diaphragm is located right below the lungs. By breathing from your diaphragm, you will be able to remain balanced which makes it the most popular breathing technique especially for yoga enthusiasts.

F. For music lovers, playing something softly in the background also proves to be very relaxing. Others find music quite irritating and choose an area that is totally quiet. For others, the sounds of nature can be relaxing while others find instrumental music quite helpful.

There are various types of meditation and if you find that one is not working for you then it is wise to try another. Another great tip on how to meditate is to take things slowly, begin with five to ten minutes daily and as you get accustomed to it, increase the time span to what you would 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.

sleep meditation The Best Treatment For Ringing Ears

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Our hearing system is quite a delicate one. Exposure to sounds of as low as 70 decibels for a prolonged time may result in a hearing impairment.

Ear plugs should be used while using lawn mowers, hair dryers, vacuum cleaners etc. Industrial workers should also be cautious in this matter if they work in noisy surroundings. Music concerts have unsafe sound levels. So the DJs and other people on stage should necessarily use the ear plugs which are specially designed for them. These ear plugs lower the sound but do not distort it. A number of people visiting musical concerts have complained of ringing ears after their visits. Hence, it is essential to prevent exposure to loud sound before hand instead of panicking after the damage has already been done.

Although the treatment for ringing ears is varied and effective, yet it is advisable to get oneself medically examined before commencing any treatment. This is basically because tinnitus may be caused by a tumor too. So it would not be wise to start treating one’s tinnitus in this case with hypnosis or masking.

The medical examination includes a complete history such as that of any head trauma, medication, vertigo, blood pressure etc. A CAT scan, MRI and blood test helps establish the root cause of the tinnitus. The patients suffering from tinnitus complain of a wide range of sounds like whooshing, hissing, ringing, whistling etc. It is commonly found amongst people through out the world.

The underlying ailments which lead to ringing in the ears may be a blood pressure problem, certain medicines like aspirin, a head or neck injury, ear infections and allergies, tumors, thyroid problems, diabetes etc. Saturated fats, sugar, caffeine, salt tobacco, alcohol etc may worsen the problem. So these should be curbed

The treatment for ringing ears includes:

o Herbal remedies are effectively used since ages to treat diseases due to the therapeutic qualities of certain herbs. In the case of tinnitus, the herb Gingko Biloba is widely used, apart from many others, to alleviate the ringing problem

o Relaxation methods such as meditation, yoga, bio feedback etc are immensely useful. These methods soothe the nerves of the distressed tinnitus patients.

o Sound therapy includes listening to natural masking sounds such as a noisy fan, shower, a running tap, noise coming from a radio which has not been tuned in properly, television etc. Masks are available commercially also which produce synthetic sounds such as white noise, pink noise etc. These masks, as their name suggests, helps in masking or hiding the tinnitus noise.

o Apart from the above mentioned methods, treatment for ringing ears also includes acupuncture, hypnosis, TRT or tinnitus retraining therapy, neuromonics tinnitus treatment. Besides these, there is a natural treatment for ringing ears also which includes adopting a healthy life style with a Mediterranean diet, exercise and distressing oneself.
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.