How to use singing bowl and what the benefits of its usage?!
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How to use singing bowl and what the benefits of its usage?
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To use a singing bowl, you hold the wooden piece to the outer rim and slowly move it around the rim (usually in a clockwise direction). It must be done in a smooth motion, and the wooden piece has to have a firm, steady pressure against the rim of the bowl.
This causes a high-pitched resonating tone to grow inside the bowl. If done properly, the tone can become quite powerful. The bowl, if created properly, is made from 7 seperate metals, representing the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. As far as I am aware, they are of Hindu/Indian origin.
Their main use is for meditation, however, in classical use, it was not the person doing the meditating who made the bowl sing. Generally, there would be one person working the bowl while the other meditated upon the tone. It would take great skill to do both at the same time, and it takes considerable skill to keep a tone going for any extended period of time.
It could probably also be used for prayer, if used properly. A person meditating on the tone can, in a sense, cast their prayer on the tone, which resonates and transmits the wish to... wherever prayers go to get answered.
Whether used for meditating or just as a novelty, singing bowls are very cool items. You can pick them up in many Hindu shops in NYC and other cities.