What is Meditation?
Meditation is an ancient form of art that we should always practice it daily because this is an ancient form of art specially practice in Hinduism and Buddhism. Meditation also builds up our mental condition and physical strength in our life . It is very good art because it not only maintain our physical strength but it also keep our mind calm and peace.
It also helps us to remain focus in our goal . For example- If a person is addicted to some alcoholic drinks or some drugs effective things than he or she get totally addicted so to come out from those bad things they can also practice meditation daily in there life because if they will continue there meditation they will achieve a good sense in there life.
What is Mantra Meditation?
Mantra Meditation is an essential practice in many forms of yoga, helping to deepen inner awareness. It is a ritual and spiritual practice mainly in many Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and Sikhism.
Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object , particular point or activity – To make attention and awareness , we can achieve a mentally clear and peaceful state.
A mantra meditation is a sacred utterance , a numinous sound , a syllable, words or phonemes , or group of words in Sanskrit believed by practitioners to have psychological and spiritual powers. Mantra meditation helps to induce an altered state of consciousness.
Mantra Meditation Benefits
There are some benefits of mantra meditation are listed below:-
- There are some mantras which have instance physical strength.
- Mantras also give stress relieve to our body.
- The sound and rhythm of mantras produce energy throughout our body.
- Mantra is a free and easy to manage thoughts and achieve physical and mental welfare.
- It also help us to get out from fear.
- Mantras always keep us motivates and inspired to handle at any situation.
- Mantras begin to understand how our mind works in day to day life.
- It alleviate us from stress, anger, jealousy and also from cruel and selfishness.
- Mantras make calm to your nervous system and it keep relax to our mind.
- It also help us to witness your own heart and the heart of others.
- It also boost awareness and higher consciousness to our brain.
- It maintains our blood pressure.
What is Mantra?
Mantra is the ancient practice of repeating a word or phase multiple times. You may unconsciously work with mantras on a daily basis practice. For example, do you ever catch yourself saying “I hate my body” or “This is never going to work” or “I’m not good enough”? Those are indeed and unwanted mantras , though negative ones, which only serve to feed the thousands of other Negative Thoughts in your mind. Each and Every thought that you think in your brain or mind that creates a little groove in the circuitry of the brain. In Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Health, Happiness, and Wisdom, author Rick Hanson explains that you can change your mind … to change your brain… to change your mind ! What luck! This means that if you think positive thoughts, more expansive thoughts , than you can change your life for the Better.
Since the thoughts you think that can create create the reality you live in, singing, chanting, speaking, or repeating the following mantras silently can make a difference. As author Thomas Ashley-Farrand writes in Healing mantras: Using sound Affirmations For Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing, mantras can be used by people of any religion , community or spiritual practice, or during any activity- of course during meditation, but they can also be used as you walk, clean, cook, and during other mindless tasks.
Mantra Benefits
We will also get benefit in our day to day life by practicing some ancient or some spiritual mantras. So it will also help us to get focused in our life. So that is the reason we need to practice daily for an hour.
Some mantra benefits has been listed below:-
- Helps to Reduce Stress
- Controls anxiety
- Promotes Emotional Health
- Enhances Self- Awareness
- May reduce age related memory loss
- Can Generate Kindness
- May help to Fight against Addictions
- Improves Sleep
- Helps to Control Pain
OM Mantra Benefits
AUM or OM is the universal variation, which said to represent some creation, manifestation, and destruction. Consider what are you sending out into the world on the sound waves of your OM and focus on a intention. Dedicate your OM to your own well-being, to your family, to your community, or to the world. Like a pebble dropped into a still pond, allow your OM to ripple out.
Practice Suggestion:
- Chant one to three times before starting or beginning your yoga asana practice.
- Chant before or after seated meditation.
- Chant anytime, anywhere at any place.
Some basic benefits that will get while practicing the OM mantras that are:-
- Chanting of the Om mantra purifies the environment around you and it creates positive variations.
- Your concentration will also increase while practicing this universal hymn.
- Om chanting will give you a better strength and physical awareness in your mind.
- It specially improves your awareness and keep focused to your life.
- It will also take you to a meditational state which will give you a deep relaxation.
- The Om mantra will not only benefit the person who is practicing or chanting it will benefit the people who will be around you wherever its variations flow.
- Om mantra improves your voice by giving a huge strength to your vocal cords.
- It is also said that while rubbing your hands during the time of practicing mantras and putting those charged hands in your body will activates your body parts.
- The Sound uuu is created by vocal cords which benefit the thyroid gland and the throat.
- If you are looking at the spiritual eye while chanting, your eyesight will start improving.
“Meditation is like gym in which you develop the powerful muscles of calm and insight”.