Meditation of the week

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Meditation of the week

 

Listening/Vibrating

 

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There's music in the sighing of a reed;

There's music in the gushing of a rill;

There's music in all things, if men had ears:

Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

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You see, the universe is a vibration.

Allan Watts in OM Creative Meditations

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The universe vibrates. Some of its vibration we see as light, some we

feel as heat. Our ears perceive the vibrating waves of air molecules as

sound. Some sounds seem to fit with the vibration of our nervous

system, so they please us. Some are disharmonious, so they put us off.

We can use sound to create harmony in us. We respond mentally and

emotionally to vibrations of certain frequencies and rhythms. Church

bells and temple gongs may be a call to worship, but they are also an

invitation to a certain spiritual state, a physical and mental

vibration of greater focus and unity. They stand out from the

background noise, like a bright light in the darkness. They draw our

attention and induce a vibration in us that reflects the coherent

vibration of the bell or gong.

 

Beginning a meditation session with the sound of a deep toned bell or

gong can induce a clearer mental state. We may attune to the unified

vibration of the instrument.

 

The world is full of sound. We naturally tune out most of it as

insignificant, but part of being mindful is noticing the world and our

responses to it. Here is a meditation exercise you may want to practice

and come back to now and then.

 

Sit in your meditation posture, take a few deeper, slower breaths,

close your eyes and relax your body.

 

Give your full attention to sound. Listen. What do you hear? Observe

the auditory sensation.

 

Note any tendency to evaluate and label sounds. You may find that you

value some sounds over others. You may, for instance, notice yourself

judging the relative value of the calls of a songbird and a jay or

crow. See if you can put that evaluation on hold and just experience

the sensation of hearing without interpretation or evaluation.

 

If you sit very quietly in a quiet environment, you may hear sounds in

your body. In addition to your breathing, you may hear ringing or white

noise in your ears, the pulsing of your blood, digestive noises, or the

snaps and pops of your connective tissue as you move. Just note those

sounds for the sake of awareness.

 

Keep opening your awareness to whatever vibrations come your way. Do

you feel sound anywhere in your body other than in your ears?

 

As you vibrate in the pulsing of your heart and blood, the rhythm of

your breath, the firing of your nerve cells, the growth and death of

the very cells of your body, soften your edges. Feel yourself as part

of the vibrating universe. Relax into the harmony of it all. You are

part of the whole. It vibrates you and you vibrate it back. You are one

with all.

 

 

 

 

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