The beauty and functionality of the Zen Clock/Timer makes it a meditation tool that can actually help you "make time" for meditation in your life.
Focusing your attention on the everyday gifts that nature gives can help you cultivate reverence for the earth.
Sit quietly as you take in a few deep inhalations and then let them out very slowly.
Allow the breath to return to normal; observe it as it slowly flows in and out.
Bring your awareness to the light in your heart, where the divine spirit resides.
With each inhalation, observe the light in the heart brighten.
On the exhalation, allow that light to flow out to the earth as love.
Allow the light to expand until it becomes the size of the heart… the whole body… and then let it fill the entire room.
As you inhale, the light brightens; on the exhalation, light flows to the world as love.
Allow the light to expand beyond the room and embrace each flower, tree, plant, and animal.
Let your love fill the streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans, until it merges with the very core of our Mother Earth.
Absorbing this love offering, she makes this healing energy available to all, soothing the entire world.
Now slowly and gently begin to bring your awareness back to your own heart.
From now on, with every heartbeat, light and love are sent out as a wish of peace for all.
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 digital 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.
adapted from yogajournal.com by By Nischala Joy Devi
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The Digital Zen Clock can be programmed to chime at the end of the meditation session or periodically throughout the session as a kind of sonic yantra.
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