Recorded on World Meditation Day, this session is a sanctuary of peace with one instruction: just be.

Feel the chair, the floor and the earth holding you completely. Let stress drift like a cloud across an afternoon sky. Picture your body as a finely made instrument coming back into tune, and feel tension loosen like a tightly wound string. Ask what the sound tastes or smells like: sweet jasmine, honeyed hibiscus, a pear on a warm afternoon. Exhale for a slow count of six as your shoulders, jaw and forehead soften. Breathe a ball of golden light into your arms, legs and feet, then choose one word for this state, perhaps peace, and breathe it into your bones.

The bowls moved between C major, F major and D-flat major, that smiling-through-the-tears key, and came to rest on my big F bowl. Sound leads us to its twin sister: silence.