what if we turn off the background noise?

[pieces o nine]

                       

...clouds pass through the sky...

one calmly sees them go as

...thoughts pass through the mind...

[stellinacadente]

                       

...clouds pass through the sky...

that is so beautiful pieces!

one calmly sees them go as

...thoughts pass through the mind...

[Opsa]

Goody, more haikus!

That one's very relaxing.

[pieces o nine]

inner peace may be
found while using photoshop
the smudge tool is nice




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Wun ov me scurvy frens sent me "Thee Path t'Inner Peace" an oi will share it, serenely, wiv awl y'awl.

The Path to Inner Peace

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a TV show, I have finally found inner peace. A doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.

So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished and, before leaving this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a butila vocka, a pockage of Prunglies, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, teh res ofa Chesescke ana box a chocelts. Yu haf no idr who fkin gud I fel. Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

That sounds like the path to rest in peace...
 

[The Meromorph]

I've just thought on...
One of the surprising things I discovered when I first started 'meditating' was that there is always music playing in there...
Usually 'classical' in nature (though not usually identifiable - more sort of generic 'Italian Polyphonic' style) Usually orchestral, sometimes brass band and occasionally guitar. Always instrumental, never with lyrics.

Anyone else experience something similar?

[pieces o nine]

If I wake up before the alarm goes off, there is always a song playing in my head.*  It is a different song every day  --[ranging from classic rock to childhood hymns to classical to jazz to...]--  and I've thought now and then about writing them down to see if what (if any!) pattern or relevance they may have.



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* not the one that will come forth from the clock radio, however.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I get it, too, once in a while but usually it's techno, so I have tom find a way to quash that (remixes of Madonna's Die Another Day are not conducive to inner peace).

[anthrobabe]

Techno? yes sometimes I hear techno-- I do hear music and it differs from time to time.
  [youtube=425,350]ZjWviwKA1yE[/youtube]        -- she leaves so many in the dust even today-


Music has a very firm place in my inner self- my spirit if you want- music is the expression of the heart. This 'little' brown girl from Texas really did a number on my heart and not just because she was the embodiment of someone who my daughters could look up to as Latinas-- she was most assuredly not J. Lopez the look was right for the movie but that's as far as it goes.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Erm, for something closer to cumbia (fusion, although at the beginning you can hear the real thing) you can listen to Cabas:
[youtube=425,350]tvAgDLwsmVo[/youtube]

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[anthrobabe]

 
we are being naughty
good choice Zono-
i likes it alllllllll

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

We aaaaaaare! What of it?


I need to practice more. I still need to find a reliable way to turn off the DJ and/or rock band for non-sleep meditative purposes.


_{Anyone else ever get that? You get like two or three strains of different songs and they overlap in your head? Or is that just me again?}

[anthrobabe]

Hearing more than one thing? yes indeed I do that.
Especially since I discovered

"Shaggy the Shoggoth" 'reply #80 on page'
Christmas will never be the same again.
It is fantastic!

[Opsa]

We aaaaaaare! What of it?


I need to practice more. I still need to find a reliable way to turn off the DJ and/or rock band for non-sleep meditative purposes.


_{Anyone else ever get that? You get like two or three strains of different songs and they overlap in your head? Or is that just me again?}

Oh yeah, I've had that.

I think you can turn them off by practcing outside in nature at least once a week. Try standing with your knees slightly bent and face a horizon. Keep your back straight and your eyes open and just Be. Ignore any interfering noises.  If the internal sounds begin, just brush them away and start over. If you can manage this just for a moment, you can work your way up to several moments. You'll get it.

Sometimes when I've done this I've put myself into a brief trance-like state. It feels like getting an hour of sleep!