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Your Guide To Charging water with singing bowls: What, How, And Why

Water is life, whether you refer to science or metaphysics.

So, what if you charge it with healing vibrations?

Does it work? Why does it work? Where does it come from?

When you keep water in or around a singing bowl, the bowl's harmonic resonance infuses and charges the energy of water. The exciting thing is that water charged can be used for many spiritual healing therapies besides meditation, reiki, yoga, and sound baths.

The way you show up for your friends and family at big get togethers, parties and Holidays is your legacy.

In your little moment of anger and frustration (or total avoidance) the way people think of you and will remember you is happening.

Are you happy with the story that's being written?

Do you know the first and best chant most famous around the world? It's OM!

You might know this already; the sound of the creation of the universe or the big bang is believed to be OM.

Indic religions believe the first sound to emerge from the emptiness during creation was OHM. It's uttered before every mantra, chant, and religious ritual in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

People around the world know it as OM, AUM, Omkara, Onkara, Pranava, Udgitha, Aksara, Am, Avam, and Ong, besides OHM. That may be why it's used in many places such as India, Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, China, Japan, South Korea, and the Maldives.

Today we will unravel the mystery of a little spoken about type of meditation. 

Early Tibetan meditation.

It’s a unique concept with its own set of five chakras, five elements, five warrior syllables, and techniques.

Today we’ll uncover it's mysteries so that you can manifest your desires with the added power of singing bowls.

Here we go!

Let's start -- what is a sound bath? 

A sound bath is defined as deep immersion in sound waves. Besides bringing down pain, anxiety, tension, disorder, and disharmony, it can slow heart rate and blood pressure. They’re conducted with instruments like rattles, chants, tuning forks, chimes, tanpura, shakers, metallic disks, didgeridoos, and singing bowls.

Our bodies have five primary senses, but sound is more sensitive than others.

You never stop hearing, even while you're asleep. 

Besides sensing sound through our ears, we also feel sound waves and their pressure through our skin.

This is mainly because we’re made of 70% water; and sound travels 4x faster in water than air. Ears can also promote physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral healing.

But how do you heal with sound?

Light travels faster than sound, but we tend to get more scared of sudden sounds than of sudden light.

That’s because hearing is our primary sense of warning.

When you hear a sudden sound, your brain actually starts a stress response where it secretes cortisol that spikes your heart rate and blood pressure. In turn, your breathing rate also shoots up. You might have felt this when someone yelled at you suddenly. 

Sound is a powerful impactor of your experience of life. 

It can calm, comfort, agitate and even anger us. While most know the basics of how sound impacts the body, do you know what goes behind those impacts?

Sound is a series of vibrations, of any frequency, that passes through liquid, gas, or sound.

Our ears can only hear frequencies between 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz (between infrasonic and ultrasonic ranges). That’s actually because our bodies are very sensitive to every type of sound vibration.

Yoga is good for the soul, body, and mind.

Sound healing can amplify every other healing exercise like meditation, chanting, yoga, and crystal healing.

So, can you use singing bowls for yoga? What are the ways to do it?

Yes, you can use singing bowls while doing yoga. You can either start/end by striking the bowl, have another person play it, or place the bowl on the body during a yoga session.

Stick around if you want to learn about the nuances of doing yoga with sound bowls and 7 chakra yoga poses.

Let’s go!

Cleansing isn’t the same as cleaning.

The former (cleansing) relates to a deeper, thorough, and metaphysical cleaning process while cleaning is simply tidying up.

For instance, showering can clean a dirty body, but you need to do penance if you’ve sinned to cleanse away the guilt 😀. This example highlights the distinction between being clean, and cleansing. 

So, how do you cleanse negativity with singing bowls? When should you use singing bowls for cleansing? Where to use sound bowls for cleansing bad vibrations?

So, can singing bowls help with meditation? How do you use it? 

Yes, singing bowls can help with meditation as they can switch your brain activity to the theta wave mode, where you’re hyper-focused and calm. Thus, using a sound bowl helps you quickly get into meditative states. 

We will teach you the elements of sound meditation, how to hold the bowl, and four steps to meditate today.

Ready? Read on!

In June of 2021, Jonathan Adams, aka The Sonic Yogi, put on an immersive sound meditation experience for a small group of The Ohm Store's friends and customers.

Using Tibetan Singing Bowls from The Ohm Store, along with crystal singing bowls, guitar, chimes, and Native American Flute, Jonathan will lead you deeply into "Loosing Your Mind" through the power of sound.