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Meditation has many benefits including better emotional well-being, stress relief and deepening your spiritual connection. Meditation gongs and singing bowls are an excellent tool to use in your meditation practice, as their music provides a strong point of focus and serves as a reminder to stay in the present moment. Using meditation gongs or singing bowls for meditation is a simple, easy and engaging process.
Preparing to Meditate
First, find a calm, comfortable environment where you can be alone for as long as you plan on meditating. Make sure that you are seated comfortably in a chair or if you choose, place soft pillows on the floor and sit on them with your legs crossed. If you are in a chair, it is best for your feet to be shoulder-width apart and flat on the floor. To create an ambience that suits you, you also may choose to light candles or burn incense. Meditation is your time to get in tune with yourself, so do whatever it takes to make yourself feel comfortable and at ease in your environment.
Take deep, rhythmic breaths. Relaxed breathing is essential to creating a relaxed, centered and focused state of mind when you are meditating.
Before playing your gong, you can try meditating for compassion. To do this, imagine light and love filling you and your immediate surroundings, including your singing bowl, with love and light. When you have imagined your immediate surroundings filled with love, visualize this love overflowing out to the rest of the world and all its inhabitants.
Meditating With Your Gong
After you have attained the proper state of mind, whether through the compassion meditation or simply through deep breathing by itself, you can simply strike the gong or play your singing bowl and single-mindedly use the resonating sounds as a point of focus. Anytime your mind wanders off the sound, gently bring your attention and awareness back to the music. You can also sing along with your bowl to make it a more fun and interesting practice.
If you would rather not play your meditation gong all throughout your meditation session, you can simply play it once at the beginning of your session and once at the end to formally mark and ritualize your meditation time.
When you are ready to stop meditating, calmly and quietly stop playing your bowl, put it away, and continue with the rest of your day. Try your best to maintain your sense of inner peace and centeredness even when you are not actively meditating.
For best results, dedicate time daily to meditating with your gong as this will train your mind to stay centered, as well as providing a soothing effect on your mind and body through the sounds produced by your meditation gongs and singing bowls.