|
Got seven minutes for peace of mind? Straighten your spine, breathe
deeply, close your eyes and get real with Carol's version of The Great Bell Chant.
Click for The Great Bell Chant
The exquisite background music and chant is "The End of Suffering" by Gary Remal Malkin and Phap Niem, from the compilation
album Namaste.
Relaxation requires a calm mind. Hypnotherapy can support
your efforts to calm your mind and meditate. Click below for a free 14 minute hypnotherapy session that induces deep
meditation. After that, you choose how long to sit in silence. Come back often!
Click for Deep Meditation
Hypno-meditation (silent meditation preceded by entering a hypnotic state) is especially helpful
for those new to silent meditation and/or struggling with excessive thinking or anxiety. Once you have developed
a facility for going into a relaxed state of hypnosis you can easily call it back to yourself with a short induction
or simply at will. You decide to go there, and so it is.
Deep Meditation Short Version
Opening music for both meditations from "Nostalgia for Infinity," Thousand Star by Jonn
Serrie. Courtesy of Jonn Serrie.
Purchase Thousand Star and other Jonn Serrie works, and more about Jonn Serrie
Jonn Serrie and Johannes Brahms
I had a revelation about the music of Jonn Serrie—why
it is so peaceful and satisfying. I came to this revelation by listening to the music of Johannes Brahms, a master of harmony.
It was the opening of the Adagio movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, an exercise in pastoral harmony
and exquisite delicacy and restraint. It just flows. This adagio is often described as a hymn. It reminded me of Jonn’s
music. And I remembered Jonn saying it is his mission to realize the space between the notes. Brahms was a forerunner of Jonn
Serrie in this adagio, with harmony primary and the entire pace slowed way down, thus filtering the ego and bravado from the
melody. Melody is all about individuality rising out of the sea of tones.
It’s very difficult to hum a few bars
of most Jonn Serrie songs. Melody surfaces from time to time, but it is a wily hermit—shy, humble and invisible at will.
Jonn has gently stepped away from melody, instead embracing harmony—relationship—and in so doing has stepped away
from duality and the illusion of separation. This creates the spiritual experience in listening to his music.
How
can music be all about harmony—a multiplicity of tones—and yet be about unity instead of duality? How can the
Choir of Angels sing in harmony when All is One? It’s a matter of heart. I cannot wrap my mind around it, because it
has no intellectual basis. But my soul knows and hears, and recognizes the truth.
© 2010 Carol A. Niemi
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 - Adagio, Barenboim & Barbirolli - (1 of 2)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 - Adagio, Barenboim & Barbirolli - (2 of 2)
|
