I've found that listening to Binaural Beats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats) helps me during meditation

I've found that listening to Binaural Beats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats) helps me during meditation. Often its hard for me to focus on the breath for some reason but directing my attention to the tones of whatever "beats" I'm listening to seems to be easier. It may help that "7 Hz frequencies were found to enhance meditative focus..." (Sample size of 8 people so, you know; caveat emptor) I use a nice Open Source utility called sbagen (http://uazu.net/sbagen/ http://uazu.net/sbagen/) which in addition to allowing you to define your own beats comes several pre-programmed beats.