Guided meditation
Everything Humming Together
For two people, humming together until two notes become one
Lucas + TwinsMeditation20 min
Sound: A soft drone like a hum, made for this piece, with a warm pad on its own notes and a faint breath of air around it. While your breath swings, the drone swells and settles at the pace of a slow breath, about six times a minute. The drone and the pad fall away before you find your note together.
0:00 -19:50
What to expect
This is for two people to do side by side.
Play it out loud on one speaker, so you can hear each other. In headphones you can’t hear each other’s hum.
A calm voice guides you both. You notice that nothing in the body is ever completely still. You slow the breath until it swings like a pendulum, and rest where it turns. Then you hum together, over a soft drone. The drone falls away, and you listen for each other. Two close notes make a slow wobble. As you listen, the wobble slows. Where it stops, there is one note. Then comes a long, quiet rest, and you come back to the room.
Under it, a soft drone like a hum, made for this piece, has a warm pad on its own notes and a faint breath of air around it. While your breath swings, the drone swells and settles at the pace of a slow breath, about six times a minute. The drone and the pad fall away before you find your note together.
How to listen:
- Sit near each other, and play it out loud on one speaker. Never while driving.
- Hum at any pitch that feels easy. There is no right note.
- If you don’t hear a wobble, just keep listening. It still works.
- The last few minutes are very quiet on purpose. Nothing has stopped.
About
Safety and aftercare. You can stop at any point. Never hold your breath. The rest at the turn of the breath is only as long as it comes on its own. If you feel tingling, pressure in the head, or dizziness, open your eyes and breathe normally. Take a moment before you stand up at the end. This is a way of resting. It isn’t a treatment for anything.
Credits. Inspired by Itzhak Bentov’s Stalking the Wild Pendulum.
Written by Lee and Lucas + Twins. Voice: Lucas.
Transcript
Opening
Nothing in this room is completely still.
Not the air. Not the floor. Not you.
Let’s listen for it.
Notice what holds your hips up.
Both legs.
Each hand.
The ground beneath all of it.
Let the ground do the holding.
Your weight goes down by itself.
Part One: The knock under everything
Find your heartbeat in the chest.
The throat.
Both wrists.
Fingertips.
Feeling none is fine; keep listening.
Notice any small sway it makes.
Nothing here is completely still.
The knock keeps going by itself.
Part Two: The breath swings
Slow the breath into a swing.
In, to one end.
Out, to the other.
At each end, it turns.
It turns by itself.
Rest there, at the turn.
Rest without holding anything.
At the turn, say inwardly: here.
Rest at the turn.
Rest at the turn.
Part Three: The breath gets a voice
Breathe in through the nose.
Hum on the out-breath, lips closed.
Any note that comes easily.
Feel the hum in your chest.
Your face.
The top of the head.
Hum on the out-breath.
The in-breath comes by itself.
Hum.
Part Four: Two notes become one
Let your hum fade out.
Listen to the quiet between you.
Hum on the out-breath.
Listen for the other hum.
Close notes make a slow wobble.
Wah, wah, wah, soft and slow.
Hearing none, simply keep listening.
Let listening move your note.
No effort; only listening.
Nothing leads the note now.
Listen for the wobble slowing.
Where it stops, one note.
Hum.
Part Five: The silence it moved in
Let the last hum end.
Listen to the silence after.
The silence the sound moved in.
Rest in it.
Find the breath, swinging.
Rest at the turn.
Part Six: Carrying the turn
Let the breath grow fuller.
Move your fingers and toes.
Sense the room around you.
Later, at a red light, find the turn of the breath.
Bring that turn with you.
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