GIVE YOURSELF A SOUNDBATH

 

DECLUTTER YOUR MIND

If you want to clear your head of noise, you’ll need to sit quietly and maybe listen to some brain food (concentration music or sounds) A quick internet search will yield a vast array of music streaming.

Allow thoughts to filter through your mind.  Don’t stop any of them or let them damn up and clutter your mind.  When you try and stop your thoughts, you lead yourself into mind loops where your thoughts end up on a treadmill, and soon you’re reliving, rethinking, and second guessing the past, present, and even the future.

To clear your head, you need to let your thoughts flow in and out until your mind is clear. Think of your mind like a river and your thoughts are water.  Clearing head noise is a watershed where the water flows in and out, leaving calm, peaceful, and a restful stillness behind.

WHAT IS A SOUND BATH?

A sound bath, according to a Very Well Mind, is a meditative experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves. These waves are produced by various sources, including healing instruments such as gongs, singing bowls, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself.

Sound baths can help if you have a hard time connecting with traditional meditation or yoga but want to experience similar benefits. If you tend to overthink things or have excessive thoughts that make it difficult to meditate in a more traditional way, a sound bath could be right for you.

Try this Chakras (energy centers in your body that correspond to specific nerve bundles and internal organs) sound bath for healing.

Weightless. This piece of music has been scientifically proven to reduce blood pressure and decrease blood levels of cortisol (“the stress hormone”) according to the MindLab Institute. It starts at 60 beats per minute and steadily slows down to 50, all the while your heart rate gradually matches the slowing beat. The intervals between notes produce a sense of relief, and unsystematic chimes prompt deeper relaxation. Finally, low sounds and hums reminiscent of Buddhist chants put you in a trance-like state.

Who knows if it will work for you, but it sure sounds worth a try. WEIGHTLESS ON YOUTUBE

 


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