All the living beings in this world, by nature, are meant to move and experience different components of earth. People travel to gain new understandings about different place, culture, food and people. The most essential while travelling would be of course money and passport, but the other most essential travel needs is “correct mindset” with hopes of beautiful experiences ahead.

As Nepal is rich in natural beauty with highest mountains, beautiful trekking destinations, fast flowing rivers, and exciting activities, most of the tourists in Nepal, seek for adventurous experiences like hiking, mountain climbing, paragliding, rafting, sight-seeing, to see the rich culture Nepalese hold, beautiful heritage places  and many more exciting things to do in Nepal. Alongside this, numbers of tourists, trekkers, and Nepalese travel within Nepal seeking spiritual peacefulness.

Bipashna, sound healing, yoga, meditation within the hills of Nepal is extremely famous worldwide, where numerous Europeans, Asians, Americans and celebrities like David Beckham, Prince Harry, Selena Gomez have experienced the spiritual peacefulness in Nepal.

Singing Bowls are one of the most used instrument for sound healing and during Bipashna meditation as it rings positive sound waves and help stimulates all the happy hormone creating glands that are connected to pituitary gland.

Travelling with singing bowl is an excellent idea for trekkers, hikers, and all the travelers as it is handy, price worthy and helps give correct state of mind whenever played. Travelers in Ancient times used to travel with instruments like flutes as it is light and keeps away from boredom, singing bowl acts as a travel buddy when travelling alone or with other people.

Although it is folk saying, ancient travelers believe that playing singing bowls in the woods attracts positive energy and keeps away negative energies and mis-happenings. Spiritual travelers instead of gadgets and speakers, enjoy the harmonious sounds of nature like waterfall, birds’ singings in the woods, wind blowing in the hills along with vibrating sound of the singing bowls. Singing Bowl is not just an instrument but a travel buddy to go on road-trips, and trekking with.

Meditation is a process where mindfulness is achieved, by training our self-awareness techniques to keep control on our chakras. If we notice carefully, we unrecognizably practice the shortest meditation on us by breathing calmly and slowly every once in a while, during the most anxious moments or after completing a long project or every once in a while. It gives our body, mind and soul a break to rejuvenate. Now imagine how much goodness and beneficial would practicing meditation every day for a few minutes routinely would result on our body. Our body is our home, and giving it rejuvenating breaks to restart is the most wonderful way, to make the best out of our day.

You might have gone through a lot of playlists of relaxing music, studying music, concentrating music, and many more throughout your rough days. You might have burnt numerous of scented candles which surely gives relaxation. But as per the tradition practitioners the most helpful way to calm the mind and body is by meditating to the sounds of ringing bells and singing bowls and nature’s sounds along with burning incense that are made with withered flowers and herbs which in combination helps a lot in releasing negative energy of the body and therefore helps in awakening your mind.

So next time, if you’re looking for ways to relax your body, mind and soul, go for a meditation to the sounds of singing bowls along with lightened flower herbal incense and feel the magic of all the earthly, traditional energies awakening your soul and balancing your chakras.

If you ever need to find your spirit and your demons to keep it in control, the energies that will extract it out are just near somewhere deep rooted in all these earthly matters. It’s all in the earthly energies. Every matter, every item, and every feeling is a form of energy that rests in the earthly matters. And when we have control in what we need to absorb, we can achieve limitless positivity from these earthly energy.

Singing Bowls, also known as ‘dabaka’ in Nepal, are made using seven earthly metals: tin, zinc, lead, copper, silver, mercury and gold which are believed to give minerals to our bodies, and energy that comes from it is positive and advantageous to us. These same metals are used to make bells in the temples, churches, and Gongs in monasteries that rings the inner soul and brings out all the goodness from within. These metals were widely used to make jewelries and armors because of its beneficiary factors.

Singing Bowls when strike with a wooden stick, gives a reverberating peaceful sound, which when rubbed by the wooden stick continues the hymn and the vibration of all the metal mixtures gives out the energy that will touch your skin, that will awaken your all seven chakras of the body and ring your inner peacefulness to come out. Ancient Tibetan and Nepali Buddhists believe that this sound energy heals your body, cleanses your body aura and creates a shield to protect the body from worldly negative energy- at least for a day.

Singing Bowls when played alone connects the body with earthly metal energies along with the energy of air, as sound travels through the air, and when played with water in it, gives energy of watery vibrations too. Singing Bowls can be used in many ways for many purposes.

Handmade singing bowls are made by melting the mixtures of metals in high fire flames, then is beaten and handcrafted to make a perfect bowl, when water is kept in the bowl and played along it gives the most pleasurable vibrations, connecting your mind and chakras to earthy energies. Machine made singing bowls has high importance in making rhythms and are played along with gongs, flutes, keyboards to make music that can helps in stress-free study, or paintings or reading books which help mind connect to a particular subject or an object to focus on.

Singing Bowls are much more than handicraft, sovereign, showpiece or hobby. Mainly purposed for sound therapy and sound healing to treat anxiety, stress, insomnia, Singing Bowls also help in achieving mental clarity and emotional stability. Himalayan singing bowls, which are mainly crafted in the Himalayas of Nepal are believed to have the highest positive energy transferring capacity.

I would recommend you to choose a handmade singing bowl.  Handmade singing bowl has long lasting sustain sound. Handmade singing bowl are used for meditation and sound therapy.

 Machine made singing bowls are used as decoration, gift and for meditation but it do not have long lasting sustainable sound. Machine made singing bowls are not used for sound healing.

It would be better if the singing bowl is at least 20cm in diameter as this size singing bowl is easier to play for beginners. Now you explore and get more information about the singing bowl in the future you will not have to regret your first purchased singing bowl if it is handmade.

The singing bowl selection process

• Choose a handmade singing bowl. (How to recognize handmade singing bowls?)  Handmade singing bowls do not have perfect well finishing. The rim of handmade singing bowl is not perfect round shape. Handmade singing bowl creates vibration.
• Play the singing bowl and listen to the sound carefully.
• Select singing bowl that creates vibration, stable sound, and long lasting sound.

You do not have to buy a singing bowl under anyone’s influence make sure you are totally satisfied with your choice try different singing bowls and compare the sound

The first singing bowl welcomes you to the world of spirituality. Now you can start meditating and exploring more about chakras.