Singing bowl meditation: process and how you can enjoy it

Singing bowl meditation is a popular way to relax. If you would like to try out such a meditation, you will find everything about the process and what to consider here.

Perhaps you have come across a singing bowl in a shop and struck the singing bowl with a clapper out of curiosity. The reverberant and recurring sound makes the singing bowl a special meditative instrument. The echoing sound can help to find inner peace.

Singing bowls for mediation exercises and therapy have been very popular in western countries for a number of years. Originally, singing bowls are traditional kitchen utensils from Asian countries such as China, Tibet or Nepal. They are also often used in yoga to create transitions from one exercise to another.

Here we explain to you how a singing bowl meditation works and what things you need for it.

Singing bowl meditation: what you need for it

For a singing bowl meditation you need the following things:

• a quiet place where you can relax well (for example on the living room carpet)
• comfortable clothes in which you feel comfortable
• a singing bowl (available e.g. from **Avocado Store, Amazon)

A high quality singing bowl is made from several metals. This creates the reverberant, vibrational and overtone-rich sound. Therefore, you will not be able to produce the same sound with metal bowls from the kitchen or with an instrument. If you do not want to buy a singing bowl for singing bowl meditation, you can search for singing bowl meditation videos on the internet as an alternative (for example at Youtube).

Procedure of the singing bowl meditation

You can do the singing bowl meditation alone or with others. It doesn’t matter what time you do the singing bowl meditation. You should definitely have enough time and be in a place where you can relax.

This is how you can create a singing bowl meditation:

1. Sit comfortably on the floor.
2. Position the singing bowl and the clapper in front of you so that you can easily reach them.
3. Start making the bowl sound by hitting the inside of the bowl with the clapper.
4. Close your eyes and listen to the sounds and vibrations.
5. Feel into yourself at the same time and perceive your body by feeling how you are doing. Perceive tension within you and connect it to the tone.
6. Then open your eyes again.

You can then proceed in a number of ways:

• You can either join afterwards yoga begin.
• Or you can make the singing bowl vibrate again and again until you feel calm and relaxed. Listen to yourself again with every beat and feel how you are doing.

Tip: If you have several singing bowls of different weights and metal compositions, you can gradually make them sound.

That is why a singing bowl meditation is worthwhile

Singing bowl meditation is a great way to meditate mindfully. If you do the singing bowl meditation regularly, you may also notice some changes in yourself.

• As the TIME reported studies have found that mindfulness meditations contribute depressions, burnout and other mental illnesses may aid healing.
• In addition, sounds and vibrations such as those created during singing bowl meditation often have positive impact on the well-being and relaxation of the body.
• A singing bowl meditation can help you in everyday life to calm down after a stressful day or after an insoluble conflict.

Reading tip: If you want to deal more with singing bowl meditation, you can refer to Peter Hess and his book “Singing bowls. For health and inner harmony ”. You can for example at **Buch7.de or Ecobookstore to buy.

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