| Name and Country |
Have you used the didgeridoo (or its music) for meditation? |
Comments |
| Alan Thornsberry from USA |
Yes |
I love to sit in the dark in my backyard and hear that noise bounce off the neighbors houses. it makes me feel like I am out in desert and part of the sky |
| Alexander Keane from USA |
No |
This does sound interesting though I think I'll have to try it once I get more experience with the instrument. |
| Anonymous from Spain |
Yes |
Its very good |
| Andrew from USA |
Yes |
Every time I use it I cannot help but meditate! It is just so relaxing that it tunes my mind into a different world where I can just drift off worry free. |
| Andrew from Australia |
Yes |
I have used it in and for reiki sessions at the rainbow serpent festival in victoria (beaufort) |
| Angus Liedtke from Canada |
Yes |
Once I saw a white orb focus in the center of my mind which brought lots of peace and relaxation to my body and conscious. |
| Aydan from United Kingdom |
Yes |
I like it to take me into a trance like state especially when I play and meditate with a few friends together it really just touches the soul! |
| Benoit from France |
Yes |
I use it for my spirit a bit like how meditation enhances your spirit but not as in meditation. I do feel there some sort of communication between you and the didj as you learn to make him speak which creates/involves meditation. But never precisely in the intent of meditation. Listening to music be it didj or not can get me meditating so I answered yes I've used didj music for meditation. |
| Blake Simpson from USA |
Yes |
Hit the zone |
| Bob from USA |
Yes |
It helps me focus and control my breathing. Anytime my mind wanders a good long blow will help me refocus and return to my meditations. |
| Anonymous |
No |
I am answering for my son and believe that he would use it for meditation. |
| Brian from Canada |
Yes |
I'll listen to didj or djembe cds for relaxation and sometimes meditation. I do play djembe. |
| Brittany from USA |
Yes |
I listen to the music because I find the sound of the didgeridoo really really relaxing. It kind of clears your mind of all the stresses or problems of the day. |
| Anonymous from Australia |
Yes |
Hmm I don't if you call it meditation but I tend to close my eyes and sort of drift off a bit haha |
| Carole Stedronsky from USA |
Yes |
After a bad fall from a horse and two back surgeries a spinal fusion and nerve root damage I have been on a healing journey for 20 years learning to manage severe back and leg pain. My pain-clinic psychiatrist has been studying the mysteries of the brain and working with deep vibrating tones to help his patients with severe pain problems gain relief from pain. I have been listening to a recording he made of deep didj-like sound and I have been experiencing remarkable relaxation and pain relief. My psychiatrist was looking for didj music when he made his sound treatment. When I told him that I would like to learn to play the didj he was very enthusiastic..... he thinks that if I can learn to play and play every day it might very well relieve all my pain. I want to heal myself through learning to play the didgeridoo. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
CD's |
| Charles from USA |
Yes |
CD bought in Sydney used as I sleep or while going to sleep several times per month. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
Yes the listening to the better players helps me connect to myself and it is very self expressive for my nature. the animal sounds are very cool as they help me listen. Hearing the sounds of the animals I hope to still hear then in our pavement city. |
| Daniel from Australia |
Yes |
It's not that I have set out to use it for meditation but that is what long sessions become. meditation for me is when I switch off to everything else around me there is nothing else but me and the didj and the sounds we are making together. All problems are forgotten they're not even at the back of your mind they're just not there. very similar to surfing and the sense of freedom you get when your on a wave there is nothing else but you and that wave. |
| Danny from USA |
No |
I have listened to didj music in order to calm down and relax |
| Danny from Belgium |
Yes |
Use it to heal the aura of people.. when past experience make holes in your aura you can close them and make the energy balance good by playing the didge at a certain way |
| Darin from USA |
Yes |
Simply help me relax have fun and slow my breathing and regulate my heart rate |
| Darren from Australia |
Yes |
Any time I play is a form of meditation as you lose yourself in the playing and your mind becomes a clean canvas ready for a fresh start |
| Deana from USA |
Yes |
Nothing to share - but want to purchase one so that I can meditate with circular breathing and the sounds |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
It has a very soothing quality. The vibrations are amazing. |
| Devorah Sugarman from Canada |
Yes |
I have never played with the intention of meditation but find that playing the Didgeridoo creates it's own form of meditation. All the aspects of good meditation technique is automatic when playing. |
| Donat from Belgium |
Yes |
I use it to get my diaphragm responsive and under full control |
| Eddy from Australia |
Yes |
Not at first but as I am becoming a better player I find it to be very relaxing while if I think of being in the out back I can imagine certain things like the colours animals trees animals. |
| Edward Olson from USA |
Yes |
I tend to lose myself in a trance like rhythmic patterns and often I envision what might be making the noises I'm producing. |
| Gary Kendrick from USA |
Yes |
The experience is transforming moving me into an altered state of consciousness. Relaxing. Spiritual. Primal. |
| Grayson Turner from USA |
Yes |
I often sit on my screened in porch on summer nights with incense burning and play slow drones and practice articulating sounds of nature and resting my mind |
| Ian Wright from USA |
Yes |
I don't own one yet but I have songs on my computer and I listen to it when I meditate |
| Jackie Mcdonald from USA |
Yes |
As said earlier it is very much a meditation practice for me. once I am in the zone a feeling of pure consciousness takes over. |
| Anonymous from USA |
No |
Didn't know anything about it... |
| Jason Kitching from Canada |
Yes |
I felt very warm. I felt a soothing connectedness with the natural world. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
If I play for any length of time I find it calming / focuses the mind |
| Jeff from USA |
Yes |
It has a calming effect. It also helps with focus. |
| Jeff from USA |
Yes |
I find the music relaxing. I have several collections of didj music by players I met when living in Australia. |
| Jeremy from USA |
Yes |
I find the sound of the didgeridoo one of the most soothing sounds in the known universe. Something about the deep drone of it resonates off a place inside I didn't know could have existed until the didge itself brought me there. |
| Jim Davis from Canada |
Yes |
I have had some great spiritual experiences playing for meditation. Mind cleansing relaxing and allowing the mind to open up |
| Jim from USA |
Yes |
I use recorded didge music to get to sleep |
| Jim Sziklas from USA |
Yes |
It is the Only treatment for my terrible Migraine headaches. I had to take less Pain Pills to function in Life and it turns out my roots to Australia was the Answer. I was born in Kilmore Victoria. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Soothing healing. Exploring different breathing techniques. Visionary. |
| John from Australia |
No |
Not for meditation just enjoy the peaceful sound. |
| John Wilbur from Canada |
No |
I have not yet used my didge for meditation but that is one of the primary reasons I want to learn to play. That and my very serious sleep apnea. |
| Josh from USA |
Yes |
I can just slip away from reality when I listen to the didj. |
| Kat Fox from USA |
Yes |
I love it's relaxing drone. It's very exotic and hypnotic. It also helps tremendously with sleep apnea which I suffer with. But I really enjoy playing it and trying to learn the different sounds. I want to master it one day. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
When I feel stressed I play didge so that I can express myself and slow things down. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
The constant drone relaxes me and puts me in almost a trance state of mind and the circular breathing that I've developed also helps be rest better at night |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
It fills a similar role for me as a chant tapping into the vibration of the rotation of the planet. |
| Kevin from USA |
Yes |
This practice helps to connect with various levels of self and other dimensional entities/energies. |
| Laura from USA |
Yes |
It is a relaxing and calming experience. |
| Levi from USA |
Yes |
It played me I was no longer a prisoner of my life. |
| Lou from Australia |
Yes |
A feeling of contentedness and deep conscientiousness of nature and my environment |
| Lucas Rodriguez from Spain |
Yes |
Practically the same sensations as the anterior answer |
| Mac from USA |
Yes |
It takes the stresses of the day away really. Almost every day when I get home from school I play and meditate. concentrating on nothing but the sounds I was making put me in a happy and more insightful mood for the rest of the night. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Listening to the didgeridoo music is soothing. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Whenever I'm stressed out I play music that has didgeridoo to relax. |
| Michael from USA |
Yes |
Real meditation is not what you talk about.... so there are no words to describe that state.... it's personal interior connection |
| Anonymous from USA |
No |
But It makes me want to though. It really does have a calming and other-worldly sound to it. |
| Mylene from Chile |
Yes |
Al estar acostado la vibración que se recibe en los chakras es impresionante mas si son tres o cuatro personas las que lo tocan. |
| Myroslav Makashov from USA |
Yes |
It is not possible to explain. It should be experienced! |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
Its a fine way to melt stress and discover a state of pure relaxation and enlightenment |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
The low hum created a much more natural trance state for me to concentrate on as opposed to the synthetic digital sound produced by a keyboard. |
| Oliver Mullins from USA |
Yes |
Quite a relaxing almost primal natural sound |
| Ossi from Finland |
Yes |
I have used didj a lot for "meditational" purposes but I guess those moments have been a bit too personal to share via form like this. |
| Paulo Almeida from Portugal |
Yes |
We never can translate the feeling |
| Peter Britney from USA |
Yes |
I do Reiki and am trying to learn the didj for use in spiritual healing and energy work... but currently do not have one |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Its not like I plan to meditate before playing the didj I just go into a relaxed a dreamy state where I only here the sound of the didj. to me that's a form of meditation |
| Pieter Pieter from Netherlands |
Yes |
Only the cd while practicing prayanama breathing. |
| Ray from Australia |
Yes |
I had a beautiful mallee wood didge with the root system still attached it was unpainted. I used this didge in the world didge med in 2008 A didge buddie Maurice and myself sat on the beach at Beaumaris victoria Australia and saw the sunset it was a great experience unfortunately this great c was stolen along with 2 Jalu yidaki's at christmas 2008. |
| Ricardo Mella Vivanco from Chile |
Yes |
I own a little peace of land on the andes and I start to play with another brothers at the shade of a araucaria (pehuen in native language) on the riverside the sound of the didj begun to mix with the sound of the water clearing my mind and sending me to a vulnerable but safe sense of my self... amazing |
| Richard Appleton from USA |
Yes |
Better than anything you can change you energy to all levels with never breaking out of meditation |
| Robin Dewan from Finland |
Yes |
I find it relaxing and healing to play |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Strengthens mind body and soul faster then regular sitting med. A much more aggressive approach when used properly. I use didge to start training the right tune gets me pumped in no time. |
| Sean Jackson from USA |
Yes |
It gives me a way to shut down external inputs and just meditate on my thoughts and to-do lists. |
| Shannon Svensson from USA |
Yes |
I am a crystal bowl player and have worked with didge players in that respect. Didge and energy healing like reiki work well together. |
| Anonymous from Australia |
Yes |
When played well the music keeps a rhythm and sound that helps me connect to nature and my self in a way that I can't really express. Sorry. |
| Stane Andolšek from Slovenia |
Yes |
You must full concentrate on making sounds and rhythm... and communicate with the nature around.. |
| Steve from USA |
Yes |
Self meditation and "didge massage" |
| Thomas from USA |
Yes |
I've never really set out specifically to do so. But during long playing sessions or when I'm a little tired it turns into a kind of meditation. |
| Tim Reinhartz from Austria |
Yes |
In the meditative state I feel the spirits dancing with me and me dancing and playing with them. I travel through time and space without moving. I get connection to my oldest ancestors which are situated in all native cultures. I loose personality and exist simply as highly complex wave forms which interfere with each other the whole universe. it's the dreamtime I am inhabiting by playing I do express it... |
| Vincent from Canada |
Yes |
The didj sound is very relaxing to me. When I play for a long period of time I can focus on the sound and it helps my meditation. |
| Vincent from USA |
No |
I want to try |
| Volney from USA |
Yes |
I just sat and listened and went with what I heard if that makes any sense I visualized Australia and the heat and all the sounds and the people wondering about things that they experience that I experience like listening to the didge |
| William Wilkie from USA |
Yes |
A tape was given to me by my wife as I suffer from P.T.S.D. so I tried it and to both my surprise and relief it was a wonderful experience and I still use it today with equally interesting results. |
