![]() ![]() To reap the most benefits, shorter mantras should be chanted 108 times (mala beads can help with that) and longer mantras can be repeated up to three times. Pick a word, phrase, or invocation and chant it in a way that works for you: loudly, softly, or even internally. Mantras are a yoga tool you can use to calm your mind anywhere and at anytime… before a test that’s causing you anxiety, before a big stressful presentation or before you get angry at a situation. The basic principle of mantra recitation is this: to use sound to cut through mental clutter, facilitate meditation practice, and create a deeper state of awareness. While reciting a mantra before or after you step on the mat can enhance your practice, you don’t have to be in yoga mode to chant. Even single-word mantras-like Om - can be very powerful. The good news: you don’t have to memorize a sonnet-length mantra to achieve positive results. So here’s your chance to learn the words to some classic Sanskrit and Gurmukhi mantras you'll likely encounter again and again in yoga, meditation and beyond! Gurmukhi, a sacred script used in Kundalini Yoga, is more straight forward than Sanskrit but can also sound like a mouthful, at first. ![]() It is said that each chakra has a particular energy vibration and certain mantras can harmonize that energy, I believe this to be true. When I first joined Buddhist temple, Shinnyo-en in Hong Kong at the start of my journey, I would find the words so different and remote sounding to my English mother tongue that I would bumble along with the chants, either knowing their meaning but really not understanding how to say the words or really not understanding either! After spending some time to learn each chant and really deeply understand what they were intended for and what they meant, slowly with my prayer beads, it became a joy to practice and use them! Cultivating a sonic presence can be liberating in a way, as you experience the numinous nature of the sound. ![]()
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