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>Should I let my mind wander until it has nothing more to say and the humming sound comes? Will this sound come to any person 100%?
If you want to do it following my "guide" you should let your mind wander at first, flowing naturally through memories (which are sensations), observing them without sticking to them. And yeah, the humming comes to everyone through any meditative practice, for some it will come easy for some it won't, could take you 20 minutes or an hour or two. The more you get the humming the easier it becomes to go back to it willingly, but at first you'll just have to sit down and meditate until it decides to appear.

>Or should I pick an object and just bring myself back to it each time I catch myself thinking?
That's what you're going to do with the humming once it appears, this type of meditation where you concentrate on a single element is called shamatha. Until you get the humming, do vipassana instead, which consists on observing and examining various sensations, in this case your flow of memories.

People who start with shamatha always struggle and are likely to abandon. Vipassana is way more natural for a beginners, you switch to shamatha only when the hum appears, making the hum your only element of concentration, this method is how i would teach anyone with no experience.

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