Gong Meditation Timers - The Zen Alarm Clock can effect your awareness in a variety of positive ways, all of which require your participation
(HealthDay News) — Meditation can take many forms, including the art of deep breathing. It’s a great way to relieve stress.
The American Academy of Family Physicians offers these steps to deep breathing, which helps your body get plenty of oxygen:
Lie on your back on a flat surface.
- Rest one hand on your stomach above your belly button, and the other hand on your chest.
- Breathe in slowly and deeply, making your stomach rise a bit. Hold for a second.
- Slowly exhale, so that your stomach goes back down.
- Set Your Zen Timepiece with Gong to repeat every 2 minutes.
- Repeat several times.
adapted from abcnews.com by By Diana Kohnle
Meditation is generally an inwardly oriented, personal practice, which individuals do by themselves. Meditation may involve invoking or cultivating a feeling or internal state, such as compassion, or attending to a specific focal point. The term can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state. There are dozens of specific styles of meditation practice; the word meditation may carry different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions. A 2007 study by the U.S. government found that nearly 9.4% of U.S. adults (over 20 million) had practiced meditation within the past 12 months, up from 7.6% (more than 15 million people) in 2002.
Meditation - The Zen Alarm Clock is a consciousness-raising tool.
Although meditation can be done in almost any context, practitioners usually employ a quiet, tranquil space, a meditation cushion or bench, and some kind of timing device to time the meditation session. Ideally, the more these accoutrements can be integrated the better. Thus, it is conducive to a satisfying meditation practice to have a timer or clock that is tranquil and beautiful. Using a kitchen timer or beeper watch is less than ideal.
And it was with these considerations in mind that we designed our Zen Alarm Clock and practice timer. This unique “Zen Clock” features a long-resonating acoustic chime that brings the meditation session to a gradual close, preserving the environment of stillness while also acting as an effective time signal.
Use our unique "Zen Clock" which functions as a Yoga Timer. It features a long-resonating acoustic chime that brings your meditation or yoga session to a gradual close, preserving the environment of stillness while also acting as an effective time signal.
Now & Zen
The Gong Meditation Clock Shop
Downtown Boulder, Colorado
1638 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302
(800) 779-6383
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