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Top 8 Meditation Aids / Tools

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Using guided meditations and visualizations are a great way to ease into a meditation routine or helpful whenever you want to take a break from your normal meditative practice and try something new. Beginning and maintaining a daily meditation practice can also be more pleasurable when we incorporate meditation devices and aids that are intended to help relax us and enhance our overall experience.

1. Scrying Bowl

Meditations reflections while peering at a bowl filled with water helps to calm energies. Scrying tools used for scrying (focused gazing) include mirrors or shiny metals, water bowls, and polished crystals.

2. Water Fountains

Placing a water fountain in a room will give any space a calmer environment. Water fountains aren't just for the meditation room. They are perfect for the bedroom, home office, the rec room, and even the kitchen!. Choose from a variety of fountain designs.

3. Meditation Candles

Using candles is a simple and inexpensive way to alter the ambiance of your meditation room/area. Replacing artificial lighting with candlelight will lower the intensity of energies that are not consistent with being intune with our spirits. Calming candlelight helps us go within and reflect more deeply on our lives.

4. Everyday Serenity - Meditations for people who do too much

Collection of thoughtful stories that will each only take a moment to read. Even the busiest people can catch their breath for a brief calming escape once or twice a day by taking a quick glimpse at a page inside this book.
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5. Pacific Light Video

This video is much more than a meditation tape. Actually, it was not produced to serve as a meditation tool, but rather a stress reducer. Its intent is to serve as a catalyst in hospitals to help patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, heart disease, CFS, migraines, chronic pain, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc. experience peace and healing.

6. FitForm Light and Color Listening CD

This light device is programmed to incorporate the use of pulsating light, color, and music to bring about states of calmness, strength, and serenity.

7. The Meditation Sourcebook

Expect to find delightful discoveries waiting for you in this text written by Holly Sumner. A vast amount of information regarding meditation is represented in easily understood terminology.

8. Purify the Body Temple

Beautifully produced meditation CD with Paula Muran guiding you through the 12 chakras. Paula Muran says that chaos effects change and this is why spinning the chakras counterclockwise in this meditation works to restore balance and inner peace.
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