{"id":7048,"date":"2019-02-06T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefabulous.co\/qa\/do-you-like-to-meditate-to-ambient-music-or-in-silence\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:06:38","slug":"do-you-like-to-meditate-to-ambient-music-or-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefabulous.co\/qa\/do-you-like-to-meditate-to-ambient-music-or-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you like to meditate to ambient music, or in silence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">William C.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Ambiant peaceful music after finding a quote&#x2F;scripture that I want to understand better. I write it down and fill a page to help me rember. Then I meditate on it. Ambiant noise can help with distractions.<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"thefa-test2 thefa-entity-placement\" id=\"thefa-2483678496\"><div id=\"thefa-180541330\"><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 life<\/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>Start living today<\/div><\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Elis Z.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">To music, or a guiding voice. I live in a very noisy city so it&#39;s music helps drown out the unpleasant stressing sounds of the outside world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Bruce J.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I used to like ambient music or silence. But now I try to be practice meditation with daily sounds around me so that I can meditated anywhere and not have sounds get in my way.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Felicia X.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Personally,  i like to have ambient music.  I have 4 teenagers and find it helps me block out the noises they are making in the rest of the house when i have soothing noises to focus on if i need it.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Adam W.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I usually use the calm app which offers a nice balance of guided meditation and silence for a deep concentration. There are also soothing audio tracks that can be played under the voice and silence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Wayne W.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">At the moment I prefer guided meditations with Calm app, sometimes I use Tibetan, Indian or Chinese music for meditations<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Rasmus W.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I prefer meditating with some calm music because there usually isn&#39;t complete silence when I decide to meditate. Otherwise I&#39;d prefer to meditate in complete silence or in nature<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">L Rke Z.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I meditate with an app. It\u2019s very down to earth, and helps me with awareness in various areas. It also stresses the lighthearted, curious aspect of meditation, and makes it accessible. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Frida N.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I like guided meditations it helps me to keep focus for a longer time and generally includes some oriented excercises or visualizations toward a certain benefit or mindfulness skill.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Caleb A.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Both! I often meditate in silence which has it&#39;s own quality but one of the apps I use (Calm) has a variety of background musics &#8211; I personally like water sounds. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Emil X.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I like to meditate in silence and no intentional music. If a random sound or mouse happens to occur we can actually incorporate that into meditation as the practice will help you in the process. So meditation is all about just being here and now. Try without music. However, there are types of Yoga and other practices in which music helps. But for basic meditation no music is good.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Josefine P.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I think ambient music helps me concentrate throughout my meditation session. What I found most helpful were the prerecorded meditation lessons in the fabulous app. They help and teach a lot!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Ada G.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I feel like silent meditations are \u201cbetter for me\u201d whereas the sounds are a bit of a cheat. Just that little bit of distraction sometimes pulls my mind away from the focus. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William C. Ambiant peaceful music after finding a quote&#x2F;scripture that I want to understand better. I write it down and fill a page to help me rember. Then I meditate on it. Ambiant noise can help with distractions. Elis Z. To music, or a guiding voice. 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