Tag: Mantra Yoga
The Neurophysiological and Psychological Effects of Vedic Mantras on Human Mind and Body
What studies report on chanting and the body: heart-rate variability, cortisol, brain-wave synchrony and galvanic skin response.
Meditation Techniques: Different Approaches to Om Mantra Meditation
Several ways to meditate on the Om mantra — aloud, whispered and silent — and how each one changes the quality of attention.
Historical Significance: The Origins of the Om Mantra in Ancient Texts
Where the syllable Om first appears in the Vedic texts and Upanishads, and how its meaning developed across the Indian traditions.
Harnessing the Power of Mantra Chanting: Your Path to Inner Peace and Healing
What a mantra is, how chanting steadies a stressed mind, and how to use one as an affirmation for focus and clarity.
Miracles and Sound healing
The history of sound healing, the techniques practitioners use, and the instruments involved, from the chant to the singing bowl.
Power of Mantra tries to awaken life energy
The three kinds of mantra — Shabar, Vedic and Tantric — the ways of reciting them, and the precautions the tradition requires.
Mantra sound and the psyche
What repeated sound does to attention and mental state, and how to practise mantra chanting for its psychological effect.
Om Namah Shivay the most powerful healing Mantra
The five syllables of Om Namah Shivaya, what each one represents, and why the Panchakshara is recited as a healing mantra.
Factors that ensure your success on the path of Mantra Yoga
Sixteen requisites the tradition names for success in mantra yoga, and why every one of them is held to rest on grace.
Mantras and their Healing potential
A mantra need not carry meaning to work. How the arrangement of syllables, rather than their sense, is held to do the work.