I've searched all over youtube in particular for "relaxation videos." There are many, and quite honestly, I've found most of them annoying: I find listening to "gentle rain" from a speaker, for example, to be jarring rather than relaxing, lol.

But finally I've found something which produces really MAJOR effects for me--effortlessly. Listening to these videos EFFORTLESSLY--one can ignore them and go about one's work, for example--produces in me a pretty decent meditative state: thoughts and mental noise vanish, and whatever one is concerned with takes on a heightened sense of reality. Really amazing.

I hope others find these as useful and intriguing as I have. Here's just one example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjbG-HR81Y

The Tibetan singing bowl has a very hypnotic sound, very good for meditation. I have a track that has a mixture of digeridoo and Tibetan singing bowl and find it great for meditation. I've also listened to it during a mushroom trip and had a very "ancient" feeling experience. There's something very moving about it's sound, very trance-like.

Most often I end up just playing my singing bowls myself now when I smoke DMT or take other tryptamines, or meditate. If you don't already own any I would recommend getting some.

How does a singing bowl work?

You can see him playing the bowls here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2QiC8Gw9I

However, his later recordings, IMO, are much superior to the demo video.

The sounds are made both by rubbing around the rim of the bowl and by tapping the bowl.

Another demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuR1Mo-rMbo

Here's a nice example with crystal bowls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2RopXmtFow

Thanks for sharing SWIMfriend, and I`m happy to see you around here!

I must agree with the power of singing bowls to help put us in deep meditative states. They can be great during ayahuasca sessions, and I can imagine with other such substances too.

I noticed though that not all singing bowls have that special quality to them but I have not been able to find out why, if it`s related to material, size, small shape irregularities, etc.

Check out this special antique singing bowl website:

Antique Singing Bowls


Much Peace and Understanding

This thread really makes me wanna get a singing bowl. I've been aware of them for a long time obviously, but this thread...this thread...

link please?

I have a singing bowl and i love it a lot, especially while tripping. But nothing comes close to the time I went into this tiny little sound-dome at a festival and played a huge quartz singing bowl while someone stuck the end of a didgeridoo next to my head.

This is a snippet from the full length version which is 30 minutes. If you enjoy it I recommend getting the full version, it's very ethereal. Just listening to it now really brings me back to that amazing time I had with this track and the mushrooms.

Very cool, thanks!