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Cricket Sounds For Meditation
What is the background music of your happiest childhood memories? Close your eyes, and think back to your childhood memories from summer and vacation. What do you hear in the background? Now, the answer you have will most likely not be the same as mine, as this is very subjective and dependent on a lot of factors. Like where…
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Learn To Meditate In 5 Easy Steps
Need some quick meditation inspiration? How about 5 easy steps, in a 5 minute video? That is just what the YouTube “Audio Entrainment” has to offer. I liked it so much that I wanted to share it with all of you. It is in a “hand-drawing-on-a-whiteboard” style, and goes through how to get started meditation,…
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The Art Of Meditation
Do you hear the noise? What noise?! This video features a great excerpt from a talk by Alan Watts about meditation. The video creator, “Omega Point”, has done a great job at setting the audio to some wonderful footage in a beautiful setting, and at times overlaying it with words and sentences from Alan Watts…
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Celtic Meditation Music
Is there anything more magical and soothing than celtic music? If you don’t know what celtic style music is, have a listen to the music in the video below and see if you recognize it. The video is 3 hours long, and features celtic music of different tempo and atmosphere. Some parts are more calming than others, while…
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Guided Meditation for Gratitude
Are you grateful enough for all the wonders in your life? We could all do with some more gratitude in our lives. In fact, studies have shown that gratitude can both help raise your mood and increase your compassion towards others. This shows us that whether or not you believe “the law of attraction” (or similar…
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Meditation Hack’s Your Brain’s Default Mode
Ever wanted to switch off the part of your brain which generates all the annoying thoughts? Then I’ve got good news for you… …you CAN! Yale researchers published a study back in 2011 which showed that experienced meditators had decreased activity in the default mode network of the brain. Let’s hear more about it from Bill Hathaway at…
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Chanting Meditation Music
Aum, Aum, Aum, Aum, Aum, Aum, Aum! Chanting can have a wonderful effect, both when chanting ourselves and listening to others. This video features peaceful nature images, asia inspired music, and some chanting. The songs are varied, and with over 1 hour of content I am sure you will find your own favorite song. Give it…
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“Do Nothing” Meditation
Want to discover a different type of meditation, which involves doing nothing (no mantra, no breath focus, no visual aid, nothing)? Then take a look at the video below… Shinzen Young introduces us to a form of (in his own words) “anti-meditation”, and starts by saying that the verb “do” and “nothing” do not go together.…
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Relaxing Piano Meditation Music
Known as “the king of instruments”, the piano plays a part (pun intended) in everyones life, however small or large. For some it evokes great emotion in classical music pieces, for others it’s a not so welcome reminder of painful piano lessons as a child, and for some it’s just an instrument that they hear in songs on…