Zen Alarm Clock - Waking Up The Zen Way
As a meditator, I have always faced a problem. It is important to make sure that my meditations can get as deep as possible, but I also do have plenty of other obligations on a day to day basis. If I slip too deeply in to bliss while chasing nirvana, I might not get out in time to go to work or to pick up the kids from school, or whatever else there is on my schedule that day. That is why I wanted to get a zen alarm clock to really help me out with my mediation. And I have to say that my digital zen alarm clock has done just that.
I know that the name zen alarm clock sounds kind of stupid, and just like another crass marketing gimic, and in a sense that is just what it is. But still, digital zen alarm clocks really provide an important function to anyone who has a day to day mediation practice that they like to keep up, such as me. If you just use a normal alarm clock radio to wake you out of meditation, it will not wake you gently. While a zen alarm clock uses a soothing gong sound to gently bring you back up to the day to day reality of your life, an alarm clock radio will either wake you with a harsh beep or buzz, or else with the blare of music from whatever station that you have it set to. This will undo a good bit of the benefit of meditation, because you will instantly tense up when you suddenly hear that harsh sound coming out through the speakers at the end of your meditation.
Best of all, a zen alarm clock can be used in place of a regular alarm clock am fm radio to get you up in the morning. It has a digitized gong sound, and can be set in many different ways, either to awaken you with a series of loud chimes. Or to gradually increase in volume until it has reached its full capacity. No matter how you set your zen alarm clock, it will help you wake up gently and feel all nice and refreshed in the morning, which is sure a whole lot better than being suddenly jarred out of bed with no warning at all! Despite the cheesy factor, a zen alarm clock is really useful.
Written by cora on January 7th, 2007 with
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