Sounds are both medicine and intoxication. As good as they are, they can be equally harmful.
Remember the last time when someone honked loudly very next to you. That was a very irritating experience and something strange happened in the mind.
Now recall the those moments when you listened to your favourite music and how peaceful you felt.
We encounter both of these situations regularly. But never analyse in deep.
Naad Yoga or Nada Yoga
We all listen the outer sounds through our ears. This externalise our awareness to the outer world. In Hinduism there a word, naad which means deep inner sounds. Final nada taught is Hinduism is sound of om and Sikhism is Ik Onkar. This nada sound is also have a significance in Jainism and Buddhism.
How to listen a Nada or Naad
You didn’t need to externalise yourself to listen nada. You need to withdraw your awareness from the outer world and shift it to the inner world.
Concentration will play an important role here. So, first you have to develop concentration and then start listening the inner sounds.
Naad Practice -1
- Sit in any comfortable posture
- Close your eyes
- Practice Bharamari Pranayama
- Now open your eyes
- Close your ears with your fingers.
- Now again close your eyes
- Try to listen the inner sounds
- You will listen many sounds here. But you have to concentrate on one louder sound only.
- This will give you immediate relaxation.
Nada is medicine
When you go deep with these inner sounds you fill find that these sounds work as medicines for you.
Each sound has concern with a particular chakra and remove the impurities from that particular chakra. This will change your entire life.