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Mantra Mind Tools ~ really?

Yes!! Mantra are Tools for Stamina and Healthy Mental Support

What is a Mantra?

Mantra is a mystic sound formula. A sound, syllable, word or phrase endowed with special features, usually drawn from the scriptures in Sanskrit.  I like to teach mantras, because – “Mantra serves as a boat, to take us across the ocean of unconscious”.

Boat across the Ocean

Manas= mind / Tra= transport.

Mantras are tools used to transport the mind. 

Beeja mantra, the seed mantras of the Kakras (Chakras) are often taught and recited by Yogic Practitioners. However, there are many more other forms of Mantras and uses. Some include, healing, clearing, and personal (pranava) or Primordial Sound Mantras, of which I am honoured & Certified to deliver. 

The vibrational qualities of the spoken and thought processes are indeed sounds; vehicles meant to free us. 

Some thoughts, as you well know, can cloud our thinking if they are negative. While thinking what is good clears the fog our minds play tricks on us.  Shutting of negative thinking is not always easy for some. It takes practice. In the same way, negative thinking cannot just be forced shut. As creatures of habit, we must recognize how negative thinking is the absence of thinking about what is good.

Now we all know, if there is darkness, is but the absence of light. 

Focusing on the Good an ideal solution and Mantra phrases repeated in meditation are useful in harnessing the good. 

Simple phrases like these below can change our resonance and bring us to the light of healing and higher consciousness:

 “I love myself.”                                         “I believe in myself.”

“I am connected to others.”                 “I am a good person.”

“I am the universe”.                                “I am whole”.

“I am perfect”.                                           “I am Loving.”

We can change our thinking; the choice is yours, at any given time.  

The solution is easier than you might think. You have heard of cure all’s? Meditation and using mantra is the gateway to affirming who we are, it is a proven therapeutic and easy. 

Try this simple meditation technique:

  • Find a comfortable seated position. 
  • Think or write out a phrase (mantra) you would like to infuse in. 
  • Set a timer for 2 minutes
  • Close your eyes
  • Breathe gently and slowly from your nose. 
  • Smile & gently begin repeating your phrase. 
  • With each breath repeat your mantra. 
  • At the end of the timer, slowly open your eyes.
  • Reawaken to your relaxed, calm & loving self. 

Flood your thinking with good thoughts and you change your view of the world. Whenever you remember, say your mantra or various phrases. Like lifting the shades to let the sunlight in, you can’t help but smile back 🙂

I quote my teacher, Deepak Chopra, MD: “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there – buried under the 50-80,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

Lynn Callisto Pell, Cl. H. Vedic Practitioner.

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Back Care ~ 4 Energy

Most of us are goal oriented people – always envisioning the future. In tonights practice we will bring awareness into our backs in order to receive and reflect, being in the present.

The spine is our central channel for energy, and the secret to meditation is keeping it nurtured, strong and clear. Because the core of your being is your spine, the health of your back is the key to your wellbeing and vitality.

All yoga postures were developed to open and support these channels and keep it supported. Needless to say, like myself, millions of people turn to yoga for self-care of their back today.

Today we will focus on back care, whether yours is tired and sore or your just needing to maintain its suppleness and be pain free.

We open with gentle care somatic movements against the wall. With yoga chairs, we will practice hip openers, and standing postures. On the floor, we will engage in abdominal and back strengthening sequences, then end with a rejuvenating guided relaxation.

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ॐ AUM ॐ OM ॐ

Today’s post is about a “little” Sanskrit word with an enormous meaning.

OM’s ॐ symbol is both distinct and globally recognizable:

AUM OM ~ is an imperishable word, a sound vibration transmitting from the universe to which we relate to. Om is the sound the universe (world we perceive) is but the vibrational field of ‘pure potentiality’.  Comprising of three syllables, A.U.M. represents, A – for beginnings, U – as the centre or middle and M for completions or endings.

When we chant ‘AUM’, we can feel each sound conducting through our bones and tissues – the A reverbarates from the base of the torso to the heart center, the U resonating in the throat center, the M creates vibrations in the skull and above. In the studio, [http://inthequiet.ca/] student are invited to express the sound and then reflect  upon the notes individually and then as a whole, feeling the final vibrations of “mmmmm” in the body.

“What has becOMe, what is becOMing, what will becOMe – verily, all of this is OM. And what is beyond these three states of the world of time – that too, verily, is OM.” ~ Verse 1, Mandukya Upanishad, Swami Krishnananda
 
The syllable Aum/OM, presents the theory in meditation known as the four states of consciousness and asserts our human nature, the Atman (Soul or Self). The individual self (Atman) and the universal self (Brahman) is ONE and  the SAME; like a river that flows into each other, coming out of the word OM it merges back to the source.

According to Swami Rama, there are three parts to our existence: “the mortal part – body, senses, breath, and conscious mind; the semi-mortal part – the unconscious mind and the individual self (jivatman) and the immortal part – the self or Atman.”

In the Primordial Sound Meditation course we explore these 4 aspects of consciousness in-depth, for clearer understanding.

 

“Penetrate deep into the word “Om”. Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.” ~ Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

 

ॐ KALLISTO