I was cold, tired, unenthused and kept thinking of turning back and giving up. I had a fascinating lesson the other day. I do not use an MP3 player, I just turn the sound of the words in my head and refuse to think at all. From the very moment I step out of the gate in the morning I start turning the Mool mantra and hold my attention to it until I put the key in the lock to get back into the house. More than the postures, the mantra and chanting has always transfixed me and I have learned to use it as a tool to still my mind and bring peace to ahead that I should never be left alone with. The one thing that got me through all the torture of learning to street run at 5am was the Mool Mantra. I had not run for 12 years, I had had two kids, my back was bad and I had to work with a chiro all the way through the first few months to get it worked through, but now I can run for an hour. I did not run away, I ran forward, shedding history with every step. I lay on the floor one early morning and realised that I had to go further than this. Some good, all interesting, some unable to hold me for long and the path of Kundalini yoga taking a major chunk of the experience.īut earlier this year my practice, which had become very intense over the years, was no longer holding me. I have tripped and stopped at many paths along the way. I have been looking for peace since 1989. The two have melded in an interesting way after a very stressful year and I now have reached a point where my personal practice has become very fulfilling. This is a very lovely mantra and can be used to access the consciousness of the soul. Again great when walking or running, good when chopping vegetables. With each footstep, as you walk, use one of the mantra. If you would like to start simply with mantra then any of the above mentioned prayers or Shabads may be familiar to you, but also you could play with the following: Shabads from the Guru Granth Sahiib, lines from the Mahabrata and the Psalms could all be considered for use as mantras, especially if you know their import and ultimate intention. There are also shorter mantras that have specific effects and end goals. Repeat any of these over and over, jaap, and elevation is attained. The world is sound, Nada Brahma, and chanting actives hormonal flow in the body, focuses the mind, brings the thoughts to a zero point and from here there is a sense of peace.Ī mantra can be a prayer, a well known version of this could be the Japji or The Lord’s Prayer, The Hail Mary, the Saint Francis Prayer. You tune into a universal sound current, the Shabad Guru. When you chant you vibrate, you vibrate the cosmos. I can and I am is an exquisite mantra to empower yourself through difficult times. Mantras can be in any language including English, Sanskrit, Gurmukhi, Arabic… and can also include affirmation. Mantra stills the mind, stops the thoughts, brings peace and can transform your emotions in a moment. To see the mantra written in your mind’s eye is said to be the ultimate goal. Mantra is said to be the highest form of Spiritual Practice. Either through a mala between my fingers, gently and calmly moving through my mind or somewhere close by me, there is a mantra playing. I turn to it all the time: As I do my running, as I swim, when I feel stressed, when I or my children are unwell, when I walk, chop, cook… there is always a mantra turning somewhere. Truthfully I do far more mantra than I do posture. I have an enduring love of mantra and it forms the basis of my personal, spiritual practice. Usually a sequence of words that hold energy, transformation and intention. How we learn to control the mind is by mantra, by stepping sideways into words of power that change the thought patterns and that can ultimately affect our DNA, making such profound changes in our experience of reality that mantra becomes the preferred way of passing time with the mind, thinking becomes a process that serves us rather than dominates our every waking moment. Where our mind can take us in a flash is too awful. When the mantra becomes positive, as in a prayer or an empowered phrase, and we consciously use it to still the mind, then we are working at the highest level for ourselves and the journey our soul has chosen to make in this life time. Aloud or silently, we endlessly play tapes to ourselves that diminish us, that make us less, that keep us stuck. They become so because we repeat them so often. We all use mantra all the time, it is just that most of us these words are negative: I can’t, I do not, I am not, I do not like…. To chant is to vibrate, to stimulate hormonal flow, to connect to the eternal sound current, to meet your soul and to connect to the Divine within.
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