{"id":63591,"date":"2025-08-27T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefabulous.co\/qa\/do-you-prefer-meditation-in-absolute-silence-or-do-you-need-some-music-or-audio-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:02:07","slug":"do-you-prefer-meditation-in-absolute-silence-or-do-you-need-some-music-or-audio-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefabulous.co\/qa\/do-you-prefer-meditation-in-absolute-silence-or-do-you-need-some-music-or-audio-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you prefer meditation in absolute silence? or  do you need some music or audio guide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Dalin X.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I generally prefer to play some kind of background audio. I struggle to quiet my mind without something to direct my focus. That being said, when I use guided meditations, I like to view them more as suggestions or springboards rather than actually fully following what they tell me to do (especially since a lot of the time the things they tell me to do don\u2019t really work for me personally).<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"thefa-test2 thefa-entity-placement\" id=\"thefa-3489990037\"><div id=\"thefa-137671403\"><style>.thefa-test2 {margin-bottom: 24px;}<\/style>\r\n<div class=\"banner-content-position light-viol\">\r\n<div class=\"banner-text max400\">Stop wasting your mornings<\/div>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/start.thefabulous.co\/onboarding\/fabulous-initial?utm_source=community-qa&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=afterfirstquestionoranswer-purple-achievegoals\" class=\"banner-cta red w-inline-block\">\r\n<div>Build a better life<\/div><\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalin X. I generally prefer to play some kind of background audio. I struggle to quiet my mind without something to direct my focus. 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