Crystal Singing Bowls

Crystal Balls & Crystal Bowls: Tools for Ancient Scrying & Modern Seership

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Quartz crystal balls and crystal bowls are popular magical tools. Yet, not everyone understands the extent of their power and multipurpose potential. Ted Andrews reveals how these dynamic instruments can be used for divination, astral projection, spirit communication,  healing, and reaching higher states of consciousness.
Readers will learn many methods of crystal gazing, along with ways to enhance this practice with candles, fragrances, and elixirs. Also included are techniques for divining with water, communicating with angels and spirit guides, developing clairvoyance, and activating creativity. This updated edition also contains new illustrations.

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The Secrets of Tibetan Singing Bowls

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Tibetan singing bowls, also sometimes known as Tibetan bells, or Himalayan bowls, are believed to date back as far as two thousand years and were used by Tibetan Buddhist monks as an aid to meditation. However, as far as the uses of singing bowls is concerned, this is pure speculation.  There is no evidence to support the meditation theory, but they are used as an aid to meditation these days in the west. 

According to tradition, they have been made from an alloy consisting of seven different metals, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, brass, gold, and silver. Today, the best quality hand beaten bowls are still made from an alloy of different metals but the gold and silver is omitted.

These days, the majority of singing bowls are not made from an alloy of different metals. A lot of the cheaper, inferior quality singing bowls are actually cast rather than being hand beaten. This type of singing bowl does not produce the best sound, whereas the hand beaten singing bowl, made in the traditional way by far produces the best resonance. Each singing bowl is different, producing a different note, often with many rich harmonics.  As a rule, the smaller the bowl, the higher the resonance will be and the bigger bowls will produce a deeper resonance which will also be longer lasting. The size of singing bowls can very greatly from weighing 150 grammes to 10 kilos  These bowls are still made by skilled craftsmen in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.  The mass- produced, cast bowls are generally made in India or China.

In the past 20 years, Tibetan singing bowls have become increasingly popular as an aid to meditation. It is believed that the resonance from a singing bowl produces alpha waves in the brain, a state only achieved by the most experienced yogis. The Alpha state is an intensely pleasurable and relaxed state of consciousness essential to stress reduction and high levels of creativity.

Singing bowls have also increasingly been used by complementary medicine practitioners for cleansing crystals, clearing rooms of negative energies, by reiki practitioners, for chakra balancing, and people using sound as a tool for healing.  Singing bowls are particularly widely used for chakra balancing because of the fact that is believed that each chakra (or energy centre in the human body) has an affinity with a particular note.

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How to Play your Singing Bowl

Learning to play a Tibetan singing bowl effectively is not a science, although some people longer to master it than others.  The secret is not to rush it, just take it calmly and slowly.  Sit down in a comfortable chair in a quite room, cupping the singing bowl in your hand without gripping it with your fingers.  Take the wooden beater, or stick, in your hand and hold it as you would a pencil with you finger positioned half way down. If you have one of the beaters which is partially suede covered, use the suede end of it to make contact with the bowl as this produces a much better sound than the wooden end. The wooden part of the stick can produce a very harsh, clattering sound until you are well practised at using it.  Make contact with the very outside rim of the bowl, and slowly and gently go around the outside with the stick, making sure that you retain contact with the singing bowl at all times.  You will begin to feel the bowl vibrate, and the “singing” will begin. Carry on running the stick around the each and the resonance will increase.  You may need to increase or decrease the pressure on the bowl but knowing this will come with practice.

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