Hey everyone,
I met an instructor a few weeks ago whose Om blew me away. I want to practice my Oms however I always feel disturbed when trying. If I am in the house my roommates can hear me, if I am outside my neighbors can here me, and if I am at yogaworks or purple yoga I feel like I am being disruptive before class, or am lingering after class.
Any thoughts or incites?In a parked car, in the shower. That’s where I practice. 
I know what you mean, it is difficult. I am fortunate enough to have a basement.
Try and find like minded people at the club.
There is a club? I have yet to make any friends who also practice yoga. I have a few acquaintances but they are mostly front desk workers. I think I will be looking into the fields near my house. They are not exactly the most convenient place though.
From what I gather The Om as in Om as in the 3 is for tuning up and turning on and working with AJNA.
I’ve heard its most powerful when intoned silently with concentration at the proper spot.
Aloud I guess one could intone it to work out the proper dynamics of the mantra. To get it right.
Rdlagrand,
Practice, and if anybody else complains, stop and practice somewhere else. But do not use the presence of other people as an excuse not to practice. Otherwise, you will find people everywhere in this society, they are almost inescapable.
Amir I think you have a very good point. When I moved recently I had to join a new yoga studio. It took me about 3 weeks to actually get in to register because I was always too busy. Eventually I decided that the time would never come unless I made it. I think this is a similar situation.
I om’d in my car a few days back (rolled my back windows down a bit for the birds to hear ^_^)
I also om’d in the bath with all of my body minus my mouth under the water. I thought this was really nifty however, one of my dogs disagreed (“bark bark”)
Scales I am never sure if I am, “doing it right,” with Om because I have a few different sounding ones. What you said inspired the bath incident though.
Thank you everybody
Scales,
“I’ve heard its most powerful when intoned silently with concentration at the proper spot.”
Where there is an uninterrupted stream of awareness and attention, any spot is the proper spot.
Rdlagrand,
“Eventually I decided that the time would never come unless I made it. I think this is a similar situation”
: )
Even if somehow it is impossible and outward situations do not allow it, one can still use the mantra silently.
With complete silence? or a feint hum?
[QUOTE=AmirMourad;52540]Scales,
“I’ve heard its most powerful when intoned silently with concentration at the proper spot.”
Where there is an uninterrupted stream of awareness and attention, any spot is the proper spot.[/QUOTE]
Oh really?
With uninterrupted stream of awareness and attention any spot is the proper spot [B]“TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT AIM?”[/B]
Don’t you dare cop out either.
"With uninterrupted stream of awareness and attention any spot is the proper spot “TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT AIM?”
Nothing. In remaining a witness, there is never anything to be attained. And the moment you become fixated on something to attain, you have missed remaining a witness.
Rdlagrand,
“With complete silence? or a feint hum?”
Whether in complete silence, or a quiet hum, whether it is a mantra or any other object - that is not the essential phenomenon. What is essential is to keep the mind focused like a lens on a single point, remaining a witness without interruption, without any gaps of space. If the mind becomes distracted, you gently bring it back again onto your object of concentration. If the mind becomes distracted yet again, you yet again bring it back onto your object of concentration. This bringing back of the mind again and again onto the object sharpens your jokiri, the concentrative power of the mind. Once your awareness is flowing into the mantra with one-pointedness over a certain amount of time, then the mantra disappears from your vision, and one’s concentration becomes transformed into meditation. Then one will simply be aware without focusing the mind on anything in particular, but aware in such a way that you are not even aware that you are in meditation - there is simply the awareness itself. In fact the moment you even reflect that you are in meditation, in a split moment you will come out of it.
It may be useful to repeat the mantra silently, but as fast as possible in the mind at a speed which cannot be done when when you are repeating it verbally. This is to allow the mind to remain focused on just a single object without any other thought or perception interfering.
[QUOTE=AmirMourad;52721]"With uninterrupted stream of awareness and attention any spot is the proper spot “TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT AIM?”
Nothing. In remaining a witness, there is never anything to be attained. And the moment you become fixated on something to attain, you have missed remaining a witness.[/QUOTE]
Enormous cop out as usual - you bring nothing to the party.
SQUAWK!!!