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So, you've got your first singing bowl. Let us help you understand how you can utilize this instrument of sound for your intended purpose - the generation of peace inducing tones.

There are many ways to use Tibetan sound bowls.

You can use a singing bowl by striking, rimming, water-charging, or chanting into the bowl. These bowls are great for meditation, prayer, cleansing, healing, charging, manifestations, yoga, feng shui, and crystal grid activation.

Read on to learn how to use your first Tibetan bowl and their 11 uses to try in your daily life.

Just as your dining table or sofa has a place in your home, singing bowls must have a home too!

Setting it up is easier if you follow feng shui directions...Which we'll lay out for you in this article.

But do you know how to go about it? How to make a singing bowl altar?

You can create a singing bowl altar as per the feng shui directions. But it’s best to consider it non-religious and solely as a ‘you corner.’ Add scented candles, dried flowers, crystals, incenses, and a vase with water to make a singing bowl altar in one of the nine feng shui directions.

If you’re a yogi, the sound of the singing bowl will open your chakras and fill you with healing vibrations.

Yoga groups would particularly love singing bowls because they’re tied to the Eastern self-healing practice of yoga. You might’ve already heard of a yoga studio or outdoor class playing singing bowls to increase your energy and focus.

Read more about combining sound bowls with yoga in this post.

When you’re starting with singing bowls, it’s good to know how they work. The Tibetan singing bowl is an acoustic instrument played with a mallet by striking, rimming, or mixing both.

Historically, a singing bowl was made from seven noble metals. Still, today they may be made of one or two metals for better acoustics.

Singing bowls made today are great for meditation, prayer, and reiki. They improve concentration, alertness, and focus by triggering alpha brain wave states. That’s why the sound of a singing bowl is calming.

Each singing bowl is associated with a specific chakra from the seven-chakra system. One chakra may help you be creative, another inspires, and yet another will leads you to success.

Singing bowls are more than just an aesthetic addition to your home or space. 

They create ethereal harmonies that heal the mind, body, cognition, behavior, and more.

So, how can you play your singing bowls to truly benefit from their power?

Because singing bowls have been in use for thousands of years, there isn’t any right or wrong way to play singing bowls.

People usually strike it or rim it, but you can add water to it or even use several Tibetan bowls at once.

Let's explore six major techniques to play your singing bowls.

Pain is a signal captured by your nervous system. It implies something is wrong in your body with a tingling, pricking, pinching, throbbing, burning, stabbing, stinging, or cramping sensation.

And healing physical pain with sound isn’t a new therapeutic approach. When you’re feeling better by listening to your favorite song at a time of agony or mental pain, you’re essentially healing yourself with sound vibrations.

The term Feng Shui comes from the Chinese culture, where Feng refers to wind and Shui to water. Together, wind and water are responsible for bringing health.

Feng shui dictates using the placement of things in homes and spaces to bring good fortune.

And that’s also why everything from our homes to offices, gardens, and even our souls are influenced by feng shui.

Can Tibetan bowls promote good feng shui? Where to keep your singing bowls in the house for this?

Some say it quickly relaxes their muscles, and others that it calms mind chatter. (if you've had special or different experiences, we'd love to hear from you. Email us at hello@theohmstore.co) 

Singing bowls can help us find serenity, much like the mind switches off the distractions, and my body just follows the cue.

Singing bowls and other de-stressing techniques work by affecting our parasympathetic nervous system. It teaches our brain to deal with stress using healing sound vibrations while keeping us in a state of balance or homeostasis.

There are eight tradtional, "old style" main Himalayan bowls: Thadobati, Jambati, Ultabati, Naga, Mani, Manipuri, Remuna, and Lingam bowls. The ninth one is called Coprabati. Each type has unique features when it comes to sound, size, weight, dimension, and costs, as they were used for different purposes way back when.

Does the size of a singing bowl matter?

Yes, the size of a singing bowl significantly affects the sounds and vibrations it creates.

That's mainly because Tibetan bowls are idiophones. An idiophone is a sound instrument that relies on its own vibrations to make a sound.