A Little Bit about Meditation and Gong
Satisfying Your Curiosity
What is Meditation
Meditation is the process of controlling and transcending the waves of mind, allowing the flow of radiance from the soul. Meditation is for everyone. It uses the inherent self-sensory system, the mind, and the body. Through the use of refined patterns, meditation creates communication between you and your mind, and between your mind and your body.
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Source: KRI International
What is Meditation
Meditation is the process of controlling and transcending the waves of mind, allowing the flow of radiance from the soul. Meditation is for everyone. It uses the inherent self-sensory system, the mind, and the body. Through the use of refined patterns, meditation creates communication between you and your mind, and between your mind and your body.
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Source: KRI International
What is Sound Healing
Healing with sound is one of the oldest and most natural forms of healing known to man. For centuries and in all countries and traditions, harmonious sound such as chanting and drumming, has been used as a way of soothing the mind and emotions.
A sound experience will alleviate stress, relax muscles, and rejuvenate energy with healing effect on the body at a cellular level.
Simple Q&A
Q: Why is sound healing beneficial?
A: Gongs (and some other instruments) induce a spontaneous state of relaxation called Theta. In Theta, our brainwave frequencies range from 4 to 7 Hz. These frequencies allow our body to completely relax, letting our physical being, spirituality, and emotional and mental selves repair.
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Q: How is sound healing different from music?
A: Quantum physics teaches that all matter consists of vibration, and anything that vibrates produces a frequency or tone. Music is the organisation of specific frequencies arranged in a particular order to create rhythm and harmony. Sound is vibration, including and going beyond what can be heard by the ear. Sound healing focuses on vibration rather melody. Sound can be heard, seen and perceived.
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Q: How can sound heal?
A: Existing research confirms sound healing synchronises brain waves to achieve profound states of relaxation, helping to restore the normal vibratory frequencies of the cells in our bodies.
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Q: What is the connection between sound healing and meditation?
A: Meditation is the art of bringing awareness and consciousness into our daily lives. Through meditation, we become an observer of ourselves and of our centre, a place without judgment or negativity. Through sound healing, we artificially put our body in into a Theta state, our brainwaves between 4 and 7 Hz – something that normally occurs in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep or deep, prolonged meditation – allowing access to our subconscious and super-conscious. This is the state in which energy shifts and insights and healing are possible.
More About Gong
Gongs date back to the Bronze Age, about 3500 BC and were found primarily in Mesopotamia, Burma, China, Java and Annam. Since the time of Buddha in 600BC all sacred Chinese gongs have been inscribed with ‘Tai Loi’ meaning ‘happiness has arrived’. Rumour has it that ancient sacred gongs included pieces of meteorites that fell from the heavens, ‘sweeping the darkness by bringing in the light’.
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Some of the ancient uses for the gong include meditation, healing, initiation, communication and ceremonies including the exorcism of negative spirits. In 1790 gongs were used in European orchestras for the first time where they remain today.
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High quality gongs are hand forged using traditional methods and tuned to achieve a state of sustained resonance.
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Source: Red Doors Studio