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I meditated for a number of years but I just wasn't very good at it. I tried everything -- expensive brain wave CDs from Centerpointe; I even tried making my own. Nothing seemed to make it even the slightest bit easier to meditate. So after years of meditating, I just gave up. I found out, however, that even if you're no good at meditating, it still provides some benefits. So I decided to start doing it again. I went to my local book store to get some CDs of just nature-sounds to listen to, and I saw this CD. It wasn't that expensive (even at full retail), so I picked it up too. I don't give out praise lightly, but I was blown away by this CD. It helps me in three ways: 1. The amibient music on the CD helps to get me in the right state of mind. 2. Where the CD shines is that it really, really helps me to get "locked-in" to a single minded state. 3. When I get distracted, it makes it so much easier to get back into a single minded state. The quality of my meditative experience is now much better than it was in the past. I can really see this in my life outside of meditation. I am much happer, more even keeled, more ... at one with the Tao, if you will. This is my experience. Your mileage my vary, but this CD is so inexpensive that, in my opinion, it's worth a try even if it doesn't end up working for you. iTunes users: by default, iTunes will compress CDs when you import them. Normally this is not a big deal, but I personally worry that this might damage the quality of this kind of CD. In order to avoid this, before importing this CD into iTunes, in the iTunes menu go to Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change "Import Using" to "Apple Lossless Encoder". You should also check to make sure that your iPod supports this kind of encoding (most do, but the new Shuffle, for example, doesn't).