Quieting the Monkey Mind: How to Meditate With Music

Quieting the Monkey Mind: How to Meditate with Music by respected music pioneers and purveyors of peace, Dudley and Dean Evenson, helps make meditation understandable, accessible, and simple to do. Whether you have been meditating for years, or are just beginning on your path, you will benefit significantly from this beautiful guidebook designed for all ages and practices. Drawing from over four decades of creating music for meditation and yoga, Quieting the Monkey Mind is filled with practical tips, exercises, photos, and illustrations to support readers on an empowering journey of finding peace within. Quieting the Monkey Mind shares some basic principles of meditation along with a wide array of sound tools and practices that can be used to take one into deeper states of inner peace and meditative bliss. No matter where you are in your meditation practice, the Evensons believe readers will find useful tools and techniques that will allow you to access deeper levels of inner stillness leading to a more rewarding sense of self and personal empowerment. Quieting the Monkey Mind provides some helpful answers to these questions and many more: What is the difference between prayer and meditation? How can we let go of our busy thinking? How do we choose music that enhances meditation? How can we create personal sanctuary How do we use breath and vocal toning to focus the mind? What is the role of affirmations, mantra, and chant in meditation?

Quieting the Monkey Mind: How to Meditate with Music by respected music pioneers and purveyors of peace, Dudley and Dean Evenson, helps make meditation understandable, accessible, and simple to do. Whether you have been meditating for years, or are just beginning on your path, you will benefit significantly from this beautiful guidebook designed for all ages and practices. Drawing from over four decades of creating music for meditation and yoga, Quieting the Monkey Mind is filled with practical tips, exercises, photos, and illustrations to support readers on an empowering journey of finding peace within. Quieting the Monkey Mind shares some basic principles of meditation along with a wide array of sound tools and practices that can be used to take one into deeper states of inner peace and meditative bliss. No matter where you are in your meditation practice, the Evensons believe readers will find useful tools and techniques that will allow you to access deeper levels of inner stillness leading to a more rewarding sense of self and personal empowerment. Quieting the Monkey Mind provides some helpful answers to these questions and many more: What is the difference between prayer and meditation? How can we let go of our busy thinking? How do we choose music that enhances meditation? How can we create personal sanctuary How do we use breath and vocal toning to focus the mind? What is the role of affirmations, mantra, and chant in meditation?

Dudley and Dean Evenson are respected musicians and multi-media producers who have been living their dreams for five decades since they met in 1968. During the 1970s, they lived and traveled with their young family in a half-sized, converted school bus documenting the new consciousness that was emerging. Capturing the people, places, and events of the day, their use of the newly released portable video camera placed them as trailblazers of a technological revolution that continues to this day. In 1979, they co-founded their music label, Soundings of the Planet, with a mission of sharing Peace Through Music®. Their entrepreneurial spirit and musical talents propelled them as pioneers into the field of sound healing. Their award-winning music and videos have been used in far-ranging settings from hospitals and yoga centers to prisons, schools, homes, and workplaces to support people's healing and life process. Over the course of many decades, the Evensons joined new thought leaders around the globe, performing concerts and presenting workshops on meditation and sound healing. By 2018, they had produced over 80 albums and numerous videos, with their music being enjoyed by millions of people worldwide. Their collaborations with outstanding musicians friends have brought forth a continuous stream of life-enhancing music with more to come and new releases every year. These days, after years of traveling to conferences and workshops, Dudley and Dean are content to stay home, reaching out to the world via webinars, interviews, streaming music sites, and the internet. They live in a cottage by a wild river in a forested valley of the Cascade Mountains, where Dean walks to the barn studio in the morning for his daily exercise routine and to work on his music and media. Dudley practices her yoga in the house and reaches out to the world through writing, coaching, and keeping Soundings of the Planet going. Later they may meet in the garden, or take a hike across the field to the nearby river. Every night is date night. That's what happens when you marry your soul mate. Next to the main Soundings studio in town are three houses that Dudley and Dean purchased when they first moved to Bellingham. They form a semi-intentional and exceptional community where friends, musicians, healers, gardeners, builders, entrepreneurs, artists, and filmmakers live. Dudley and Dean's collective dreams keep manifesting as peaceful music and videos continue to stream out and touch individuals around the globe. Soundings of the Planet music and blog: www.soundings.com • 800/93 PEACE (800/937-3223)