One of the easiest ways to begin meditating is to use a CD to help guide you
. But what should you look for if you want to choose the best meditation CD to take you into a meditative trance?
Remember that a lot of meditation tracks nowadays are supplied as MP3, so don't restrict yourself to just CD's.
Start by deciding what you want from your meditation. There are lots of different things that you can use meditation for and there will almost be a meditation CD that suits your needs.
Healing meditation
With these meditation CDs it's worth checking other people's reviews. Amazon sells a number of different pre-recorded meditation tracks and is a good way to find out the experience that other people have had with the track you're thinking of buying.
Learning meditation
With the increase in interest in meditating, there are a number of products on the market that are aimed at teaching you how to meditate. Each of these will have a different focus - maybe traditional methods, maybe breathing, maybe focusing on your deep down core energy. Again, the best meditation CD for you will depend on what your desired outcome is but most of the ones on the market are of a good quality.
General purpose meditation
These may or may not involve a spoken voice. If you find certain accents and voices distracting, it's probably worth investing in a meditation CD that either has no words recorded or that has these words included subliminally so that you don't consciously hear them. The backing track is usually some kind of natural sound such as rainfall or birdsong or the sound of waves gently breaking on a beach.