Meditation Sounds Will Help Relax You And Achieve A Higher Sense Of Awareness
Mostly, meditation sounds that are focused on just one chain of thought as practiced in the Japa meditation variation will help a person to bring a wandering mind to concentrate in a more efficient manner by helping in discarding all extraneous thoughts. In Japa meditation, there is a lot of chanting of mantras and focusing the mind on just a single thought and no other thought but that one particular thought, which will then help a person to train his or her mind and achieve their goals in a much shorter span of time.
Mantras Help Focus On A Particular Thought
Thus, the essence of the meditation sounds is usually a mantra that is nothing but special combinations of religious or even mystical sounds (usually, monosyllabic) that helps in focusing the mind on a particular thought. It has been found that by saying out aloud certain letters which each letter representing a particular meditation sounds or vibration, there is a noticeable and beneficial effect on the person's mind. However, there is no need to only chant Sanskrit sounds, because any ordinary word or sound will do just as well, though, of course, the meditation sounds used in Japa meditation are usually derived from Sanskrit letters.
The reason why using meditation sounds helps a person is that these sounds help in opening up the person's mind and heart and thus frees the mind from its existing thoughts and instead will take the mind to a higher level of awareness. Of course, you need to be aware that often reciting mantras repetitively can lead to a lot of monotony and thus, to not become bored with the same old meditation sounds, you should ensure that you include some variety in the sounds and also make changes to the volume of the meditation sounds as well as their tone.
There no doubts the fact that sound can have a very positive effect on our perception of well being and even scientific studies have shown sound to have therapeutic effects on people listening to and making sounds. Thus, meditation sounds are sure to help improve a person's health, and as studies have shown when you make or hear tranquil sounds, there is general feeling of relaxation, and this is what is achieved when chanting mantras and meditating.
In fact, you need not chant only mantras to make use of meditation sounds because there are also many meditation sounds' CDs available that all make the right sounds and which have the same beneficial effects on a person as do chanting mantras.
