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Mindfulness Bell Volume 1
"Relax! Meditation is easy! Let the mindfulness bell do the work for you!"
Mindfulness Bell Volume 1 is a fantastic meditation tool. It features the sound of a specially selected meditation bell that will really help to clear your mind and guide you into a deep state of meditation.
This high quality mp3 download includes a 60 minute version for formal meditation practice, and also a separate "5 Minute Mindfulness" recording that's perfect for those times when you just want to clear away mental clutter and get on with your day.
This recording contains nothing but the pure sound of a Tibetan singing bowl being repeatedly struck with a soft mallet.
This calming sound is a wonderful focal point for meditation. Simply absorb your attention in the sound of the mindfulness bell. No mantra is required, no special breathing techniques are needed, just let your awareness be consumed by the sound of the bell.
Your mind will become clearer and more calm with each and every bell strike, and as the bells fade into silence, your mind is given the opportunity to experience a very natural state of stillness.
This bell actually encourages your mind to become still and silent, but alert. This is mindfulness training at its best!
For best results, listen quietly with your eyes closed
A relaxing, easy way to practice mindfulness meditation.
There’s something really nice about being able to sit down to meditate without having to worry so much about concentrating intensely or repeating a mantra.
Just let the bells do the work for you.
Their comforting, meditative sound will help you to anchor your awareness in the present moment, where you can find stillness and freedom from mental noise. This is a fabulous way to meditate!
If there is one I learned while recording Mindfulness Bells Volume 1, it’s that meditation bells are not all equal!
I sampled dozens of different bells and eventually exhausted my own collection of over 65 different bells and meditation bowls before I found "the one".
Meet "Henry", our perfect mindfulness bell.
Henry is almost one foot wide and he weighs 4 pounds. He is made from seven different metals and he was born in the Himalayas. He’s a big boy, but he has a very calm disposition and he loves to sing in a deep, soft voice. Henry is the star of Mindfulness Bells Volume 1, but he promises that he won’t let his sudden rise to fame go to his head.
Each and every bell has its own unique sound. Some are quite unmusical, whereas others have harmonics that mingle beautifully. Some oscillate too quickly or in awkward patterns that are distracting, whereas others oscillate gently and with a tempo that is deeply relaxing. Some bells really clang when they are struck, some others boom.
Henry has all the qualities of a perfect mindfulness bell. He’s never shrill, clangy or boomy and when you strike him he sings effortlessly. His two most prominent harmonics oscillate with a low delta frequency of 0.5 Hertz, and at a delta frequency of 4 Hertz. (You can hear these oscillations pulsing away in the audio sample). Much like the effect of binaural beats, these oscillations are deeply relaxing and can actually help to guide your brainwave activity into a state of deep meditation.
What goes on inside Mindfulness Bell Volume 1?
Each time the bell is struck, it rings for about 40 seconds. During the first 5 minutes of this meditation, the sound never completely fades away; the bell is struck again before it fades to silence.
Slowly but surely the gap between each bell-strike is increased, allowing you to gradually experience longer and longer moments of complete silence.
By the 15 minute mark, silent spaces of around 15 seconds have opened up between each bell strike, and the overall volume has become a little quieter. By the 30 minute mark, these silent spaces have increased to 25 seconds and the volume is reduced just a little more.
If you choose to continue meditating for more than 30 minutes, you’ll find that each 40 second bell sound is separated by 40 seconds of silence.
In this way, Mindfulness Bell Volume 1 trains you to become more and more comfortable with the sound of silence, and more and more capable of achieving mental stillness on your own.
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