Contradicting! Isn’t it? Rock Music – the freaking stuff and Meditation the clam stuff? Won’t it be a chaos to put them together? Well, not really. Remember I was talking about an experiment I was doing before I wrote about meditating with music? Well here it is…
Can we Meditate with Rock Music? Yes we can and truly I tell you it’s awesome. Now please stay and hear me till the end if you want to know what I am talking about.
How it Works
Observing or rather ‘knowing’ the passing of time, passing of emotion or passing of anything, while you remain stationary, is a state of meditation. So that’s exactly what we are doing here – rock music with comparatively higher tempo (more beats per minute) that usual music for meditation is perfect for creating the sense of urgency or passing of time.
A word of warning here, try this only if you’ve been meditating for a month at least. Otherwise it will do no good to you. You need to be familiar with ‘state of meditation’ before you do this. That’s why it’s been categorized as Advance Skill.
How to Meditate with Rock Music:
- Select a rock track – preferable in language you don’t know so you won’t be urged into lyrics. But rock music isn’t know for lyrics anyways. You can try hard rock which is better.
- Play it on normal volume.
- Sit, stand or lay with your back straight.
- Close your eyes.
- And focus on the beats…
- Count it for breathe in or breathe out with it.
- Just go with the beats, thought might come – release them – go with the beats.
- Beat Beat …. faster it will go… go with the beats…. go go go.
- Go as long as the song goes.
The Real Thing
That’s all to it for beginning. But hear this – this is just the beginning – after practice of a week or so, you will begin to detach from the beats – you won’t be in them but they will be in you.
Now some of you might experience that right away or in a few min. in first sitting. And Voila! You’ve reached the state of meditation with rock music that is unique to it’s listener.
If you ever ask people who go to rock concerts a lot – they will tell you that there are brief moments of time when they feel as if the time has stopped – and they love those. They try to induce it with loud music and even drugs – but here I give it to you without external things and harmful substances.
This will also help you learn to love all genres of music, it did help me.
Recommended Rock Music for Meditation
Here are the songs I’ve often used:
- 21 Guns by GreenDay || Buy MP3 on Amazon(Omg! Aff Link!)
- Leave Out All The Rest by Linkin Park || Buy MP3 on Amazon (Omg! Aff Link)
- Living La Vida Loca by Riki Martin || Buy MP3 on Amazon (Omg! Aff Link)
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