Chopra and Oprah do 21-day meditation series, which are actually 22 days (what’s up with that???).
Doctor Conde brings you his series of 31 musical meditations. If you’re as anal as I am, you can align them to each day of the month!! You can find it in my “Musical Meditations” page.
The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind, to reach perfect stillness. We all know that’s extremely hard. So the next best thing is to focus our mind on a single thing. The most common form of meditation is mantra meditation, which involves the repetition of a sound or phrase (out loud or in the mind only). The most common mantra meditation sound is “om” which is generally understood to represent god, the soul, infinity.
You can listen to these meditations anywhere you want and under any circumstance; they’re music after all. But, they’re really intended to be “meditations”. That means that it’s best to hear them in “silence” while “in stillness”.
To meditate, first get into a meditation position and be prepared to stay there for the duration of mediation. Meditation position can be standing, sitting, kneeling or laying down. While most meditations are preferably done in stillness, it may be appropriate to walk, run or swim during meditation.
Also, meditation doesn’t have to be done alone. Meditating together with a partner or a group is an incredibly intimate and bonding experience. Meditating with touching bodies is perfectly ok.
Meditation position does involve getting “grounded”. If you’re standing, stand with both feet planted on the ground; if you’re sitting, sit with both feet planted flat or knees on the ground. If you’re laying down, your heels should be touching the ground/bed/couch.
One of the most common meditation positions is the lotus, locking feet inside the thighs. If you do this, make sure your knees are touching the ground. For people like me who are not flexible enough for the lotus, sitting on tall pillows such as meditation zafus with knees to the ground works great.
Close your eyes to meditate, imagine a ray of golden light 6 inches above your crown and imagine you inhale it through your crown as your lungs fill up with air. Imagine that ray of light flows in a ripple to every corner of your body, like a wave. Then exhale. Repeat 3 times. Then breath normally during the rest of meditation. Start the music.
Allow yourself to feel during meditation, but don’t analyze it. Focus on the music, your body, your feelings. Don’t fight your thoughts, let them happen, but let them go, let them pass through. Focus on the music.
When the music ends, open your eyes, come back to the room, breath deep 3 times and move.
These musical selections are mostly classical and many are adagios and andantes of 2nd or 3rd movements from well-known pieces. They are pieces I love. They move me, from cradling tender soft to the frenetic. It’s not a coincidence that the last one is Ravel’s Bolero, which is the epitome of a crescendo and a final release. Quite orgasmic.
Sometimes when I listen to these, I feel the urge to listen to the whole piece. I have provided links to the music mostly in iTunes. All of these would be fabulous additions to anyone’s lifetime collection.
Enjoy the music my dear readers!!! Remember, you can provide comments directly on the page or contact me individually.
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