The Signal !!!

March 2020

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It was the month of March. The season changed in Sydney. The beautiful Spring season brought freshness everywhere.

We recently shifted to a new apartment. There was one room on the third floor which I made as my healing room. Here I practice my therapy such as Hypnotherapy, sound therapy, and other forms of healing. I also keep this room energized all the time by Crystals, flowers, flowing water, winds, and candles. I keep the environment conducive for all kinds of therapy, healing, and meditation practices. After every therapy session, I clear out the energy emitted during the session. These therapies are useful to those who are suffering from any psychological and emotional issues. Here I get some quiet time for my meditation and yogic practices as well. This room is secluded and there is minimum interference from kids and any other visitors.

Every now and then I meditate at mid-night for minimal interference. Usually, I meditate for one and half hours to two hours. Earlier it was very difficult for me to sit for even half an hour. Things changed recently. I can meditate for a long time nowadays.

One day while meditating I heard that my neighbor’s water tap was on and there was a sound of water flowing out. After some time the tap water stopped. It started again after few seconds and took few seconds to stop. It kept repeating and I was wondering in the night why someone is playing with a water tap in the dead of night.

The next day in the morning when I sat for meditation, I felt the same way. I was not sure if my kids were playing with the water tap or someone in my neighborhood is playing with it. I was annoyed with this sound. I felt that I made a mistake by renting this house as someone is obsessed with the water tap in the neighborhood.

The next day it happened again. It kept repeating every day and night. But it was surprising why this playful person was active with the water tap only when I meditate and absent all other times. I was so annoyed that one day I asked my sons, why they play with the water tap at mid-night. They were completely ignorant of what I was talking about. They were completely clueless. Later my wife joined them and they all started mocking me around. They were asking me if the meditation had made me crazy. That was the moment when I realized there could be something related to meditation as well. Next time I was very careful. The next day when I started meditating the sound was absent. Neither I heard any water sound nor any tap on or tap off the sound. It continued for few days. In the next few days, I did not hear such a sound. To my very surprise when I was meditating the next day suddenly this sound arrived again. As I become cautious of the sound, it disappeared. The next day it happened again. It arrived and after my being cautious it disappeared. It continued for the next few days till I realized that it is nothing else but my own breath. The process of breathing in and breathing out was getting magnified by my consciousness that it sounds like water taps on and off. After few minutes when the mind and body calm down, breathing becomes deeper and deeper. With every inhalation, I experienced as someone is moving the water tap to on position and with every exhalation, It sounded as if somebody is moving the tap to off positions.

The next day when I sat with this understanding in my mind, there was no sound. After that this weird sound disappeared completely and never came back.

I had so many unanswered questions till now and my mind started searching for answers to all those questions. Question1: Why did it stop for few days in between? Question2: Why tap on and tap off sound? Questions3: Why did it stop ever since I realized the sound is coming from my own breathing.

I had the answers to the questions: Perhaps I became cautious and was not going deep enough while meditating, which stopped the sound completely. Later when I was conscious about the reason, it stopped the sound.