Self Help Anxiety Books

The wonderful music and guided meditation helps me dissolve the constant chattering in my mind that keeps me from having a quiet mind or focusing.

I disagree with prior reviews. I love the voice of the artist. It’s obviously a Buddhist/Asian style of meditation, and having the meditation spoken in the foreign accent of the guide makes it seem more authentic to me. Her name is Pakvilai Sudhaswin, so one can’t expect a New Jersey accent. I love the comfort of a real Buddhist meditation teacher guiding me towards peace.
Rating: 5 / 5

This CD provides practical instruction for the practice of meditation — specifically regarding the difficult task of reaching that pure, original state of “No Mind.” The narrator’s soothing voice is a subtle reminder to stay in the present. I like to let the CD run its course… and when it’s finished, embrace the silence around me and continue my meditation for another 15 or 20 minutes.
Rating: 5 / 5

The Non-Thinking CD helps me to focus on my mind and gently teaches how to learn the state of non-thinking. Intially, it was an abstract idea to me, non-thinking. However, Pakvilai truly has perfected the art form of explaining her ideas and assisting me to focus effective strategies to calm my being. By focusing on breathing, detaching from my thoughts, allowing and being aware of my thoughts entering and exiting my mind, and being in the present moment, I can find this way of non-thinking.

This CD has helped me to relax and focus on my being and being inthe moment. I recommend it, as well as the other in the set, to anyone!

Rating: 5 / 5

I was looking for a good guided meditation and this sounded like the ticket.

However as soon as I put it in the cd player and heard this sappy synthesizer “space” music, I was put off. I HATE this kind of “music” and I am sure I will find it very difficult to get into the guided meditation with this junk playing in the background.

I’d rather here silence, or some mellow guitar, or ocean sounds, or just about ANYthing other than this drek!

I will listen to it and try meditating to it, and if I find it good, I’ll revise my review. But my first impression is:

“YEECCCCHHH!”

I would like to add that I have listened to this several times now and I agree with my original take on it. No offense to the “artist” but the music is the most generic kind of new age crapola, and also I would like to add that the woman guiding the meditation has an annoying accent. I realize she cannot help that, and maybe I should be able to overlook it, but the fact is, it is distracting to me.

One more note: This recording contains 2 tracks, the first one is 31 min. but the 2nd one is only 7 minutes! And worse, it doesn’t even fade out properly, it just cuts off at the end. I had to double check it to see if it was defective, but no, it is just haphazardly, sloppily made that way.

I would update this to zero stars if I could.

I decided to check my local libraries, and I found about 10 different recordings of guided meditations. This way I can check them out before buying, or perhaps just copy them for my personal use. I think guided meditations are very personal and what one person may like a lot, another person may not like, as is the case with this one, where 2 people gave it 5 stars and I only gave it one star. It makes sense to check them out at the library before buying.
Rating: 1 / 5

I am sorry that I purchased this CD. “Non-thinking” is something I really try to work on in my own meditations, and I was hoping this CD would work well with my own goals.

Unfortunately, the music is very distracting from the meditation. A lot of it consists of zither and harmonica (yes, harmonica) tones zipping up and down the scale at a very rapid pace. It’s quite different from what you’d expect on a CD that is meant to relax you!

The narrator also has a strong foreign accent. This, too, is distracting from the meaning of the words she is speaking. You end up thinking more about the accent and where she might be from than you do about the content of the meditation itself.

I do NOT recommend this CD.
Rating: 2 / 5