Guest guest Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Hi Sadhana Seva Kaur I would guess that the answer would have to be no. Reading the cover notes on Song of the Sacred Gong (available from www.yogatech.com) the vibrations pervade your entire being - they can only do that if they impact all of you and not just your eardrums. You may well get a limited experience using your headphones - why not try it and let everyone know how you get on? I'm sure that Dharam will jump in here and tell me I'm wrong! :-) Sat Nam! Gordon - "Suzanne Nocella" <SNOCELLA333 kundalini yoga Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:36 PM Kundalini Yoga Question on the Gong > Sat Nam everyone, > > Dharma, now that we are on the subject of gong music; I have been > contemplating doing the meditation for parasympathetic nervous system for a > while now, but I put if off because the person I live with may not > appreciate gong music. Recently I resumed my full yoga practice and I > noticed when I doing my lay out I hear this little nagging voice in my head > wanting to hear some gong music. I feel as though it should be played > without earphones, that is the only way I really enjoy listen to it. My > question is, can you listen to gong music with earphones or is it best not > to have earphones on? > > This is the first time in the 4 years I have been doing KY that I have been > getting up between 4:30 and 5 Am to my Sadhanas. > > PEACE LOVE & LIGHT > Sadhana Seva Kaur > Philadelphia, Pa > **************************************************************************** *** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Sat Nam, I know this might sound precious and kind of snooty but the best (and for me the only) way to "hear" the gong is to be in the room or space with the gong. This is not to say that a recording on a CD through a good sound system won't help but since the sound of the gong is really only the physical waves coming off the tuned metal of the gong ... well it is kind of like trying to describe the color blue to a sightless person. It simply is only a pale imitation of the reality. As for wearing earphones, I have to say I'd disagree since so much of the gong vibrates the whole body. Until you hear a gong being played as you lay there after a wonderful KY set, well ... it's just not the same. Nice, but not the same. Get thee to a Yoga Center where someone is playing a gong! Best wishes. Karta Purkh Kundaliniyoga, "Suzanne Nocella" < SNOCELLA333@h...> wrote: > Sat Nam everyone, > > Dharma, now that we are on the subject of gong music; I have been > contemplating doing the meditation for parasympathetic nervous system for a > while now, but I put if off because the person I live with may not > appreciate gong music. Recently I resumed my full yoga practice and I > noticed when I doing my lay out I hear this little nagging voice in my head > wanting to hear some gong music. I feel as though it should be played > without earphones, that is the only way I really enjoy listen to it. My > question is, can you listen to gong music with earphones or is it best not > to have earphones on? > > This is the first time in the 4 years I have been doing KY that I have been > getting up between 4:30 and 5 Am to my Sadhanas. > > PEACE LOVE & LIGHT > Sadhana Seva Kaur > Philadelphia, Pa > ******************************************************************************* > > __________ _____ > Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Sat Nam Sadhana Seva, First, I am glad to see you're getting up in the Amrit Vela to do your sadhana. Regarding your inquiry, buy your roommate some earplugs. I'm serious. A real Gong is best, of course. A very good stereo system with good speakers is will be of reasonable benefit, and even surprisingly so. Ordinary headphones would be very limited, in my opinion, as you miss out on some of the subsonic and supersonic sound waves. The whole body needs to "hear" the vibration. It's worth trying, at any rate, as the ears do access the entire parasympathetic nervous system. If you have a few hundred bucks burnin' a hole in your pocket you can check out Neurophones at http://www.neurophone.com/tech.htm This will be the closest any headphones can come to "real". Sat Nam, Dharam Singh Millis, MA (back home, finally, and seriously jetlagged) Suzanne Nocella wrote: >Sat Nam everyone, > >Dharam, now that we are on the subject of gong music; I have been >contemplating doing the meditation for parasympathetic nervous system for a >while now, but I put if off because the person I live with may not >appreciate gong music. Recently I resumed my full yoga practice and I >noticed when I doing my lay out I hear this little nagging voice in my head >wanting to hear some gong music. I feel as though it should be played >without earphones, that is the only way I really enjoy listen to it. My >question is, can you listen to gong music with earphones or is it best not >to have earphones on? > >This is the first time in the 4 years I have been doing KY that I have been >getting up between 4:30 and 5 Am to my Sadhanas. > >PEACE LOVE & LIGHT >Sadhana Seva Kaur >Philadelphia, Pa >******************************************************************************* > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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