A vibrator for your mind

Quantum physics and string theory have been subject to a lot of use and abuse in recent years by the spiritual community. 

Cough-cough-What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?-cough. 

Actually, as long as you keep your wits about you, it's a very beautiful documentary. But, please, please, after you're done viewing it, read something like The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene to make your inner science teacher happy.

However, taking the above as an inspiration only, I would like to make a more basic point here:  just as it is the nature of all atomic and subatomic particles to be in a state of constant vibration, consider your thinking--when you "talk to yourself" in your mind's ear, do you tend to monotone your inner monologue? I do. I drone it--that's why it's usually not helpful.

In kundalini yoga and mindful meditation which follows, a gong and singing bowls (the famous instrument from Nepal) are employed to literally vibrate the bodies of the students.

It's a very pleasant feeling. I like being vibrated--and who doesn't really? What one realizes after a while of practicing this (especially with chanting) is that your thinking's perspective is altered: you actually begin to think musically... sometimes in words and sometimes in images. Vladimir Nabokov, for example, claimed to have so mastered this process that he only thought in images. 

This is one of the ways through which one can realize that thinking isn't a bad thing--it's just that we don't do it very well. Like all things monotoned, so often there is a lack of color to what we call thinking.

Recommendation: try to think when your body is moving and see if you can apply a tempo or timbre to the words forming in your mind. For musicians and music lovers, it's often a lot of fun to try to think words out in a key--say A#. It really allows one to transform familiar thoughts into strange and new ideas. And making the familiar strange is literally the definition of divergent original thinking.