Mantra Meditation Get Started Ease In

Meditation is practice for spiritual development, relaxation, pain relief and more ease in your life, Right?  Western Medicine is exploring mindfulness to help manage chronic pain. Mantra Meditation is one type of meditation and a great place to start.   You have nothing to lose giving this a try.

If you sit regularly you get it. When you have an established practice you have traveled the road from noisy and ahead of yourself to delightful silence and presence, maybe even to bliss.   If you don’t meditate, a regular practice may seem far away.  You can close the distance, develop the discipline to sit and the mental clarity to quiet your mind. Mantra is an easy way to get on the path.

Years ago my meditation practice became a self care anchor  a keystone habit to heal after eye surgery. Recovery required months of holding still, no reading, no TV and holding my head at a specific angle 23 out of 24 hours per day.  Meditation in Stillness became my friend and healing partner and is to this day.

How do you get started?

Don’t wait until a disaster strikes. Just try it. Start.  Find a fabulous teacher if that is the way you learn. There are free and paid group programs online. Group meditation can amp up your experience. It is often easier to focus with multiple minds and spirits all aligned. If you are more of a self starter, there are some really helpful CDs and books to guide you.

Many forms of this practice engage different senses to focus the mind. Mantra (repeat a phrase silently), Guided Meditation (listening to someone else), Appreciation (Gratitude Practice), Trataka (Flame Gazing), Pranyama (follow your breath), are a few well known forms of mediation.  Sitting in silence is the gold standard.

Some teachers might tell you that silence is the only way. But there are many entry ports. Different traditions teach specific techniques.

Mantra Meditation may be the way in. 

Meet yourself where you are.  Start to practice meditation in a way that is natural and easiest for you.  Mantra is a great way to ease in. A mantra is a word phrase or verse that can affect change through repetitive use. So you get a starting mantra from a teacher or pick a specific mantra based on your learning path.

Why is it easy?

You can focus your mental chatter on the word or phrase. Speak it silently and listen. Mantra is flexible you can do it anywhere for any length of time.   Pick your mantra to clarify your intention or support specific healing.

Mantra Meditation Practice

• Sit Comfortably
• Close your eyes
• Clear you Mind
• Mentally say your Mantra
• Slow the rate of repetition to allow space
• If you get distracted or start to hear mental chatter
• Go back to the Mantra.
•  You can start with as little as three repetitions like 1 minute.  Try  for  5 – 7 minutes and work up to 20 minutes each day.

Find Your Mantra Meditation from Well Known Phrases

Need help to find the right words? Here are six examples very simple traditional mantra in Sanskrit and English that anyone can use to bring power to their practice.

1. Namah/ Namaha – I bow. This is great when life gets crowded or overwhelming.
2. So Hum – I am that.   We are all part of the same whole.
3. Shanti / Peace – Ease in one word.
4. Sat Chit Ananda – Existence, Consciousness, Bliss Explore expanding awareness of the possibilities in this life.
5. I am spirit –  Remember I am more than this difficulty, this moment, or this life.
6. I am – A living spec of consciousness, part of a great whole.

As you lovingly say these words again and again, they gain power. They shift your intention and vibration.    Spiritual love expands from your heart space further and further as you grow in this practice. There are many beautiful phrases or verse to speak silently as a mantra to discover the path of spiritual growth and health.

None of the above work for you ? Make your own mantra.

Create your own mantra – Things to consider

•  You don’t need a mantra for your lunch pick of the day. Mantra is a serious tool to spur growth
•  Phrase in the positive.  I am spirit versus I am not just a body.
• The words should resonate for you make you happy.  Ring like a bell rather than fall like a stone and go thud.
•  Simple and memorable.  You want to latch onto your Mantra and repeat it often.

Use these guidelines Write down a few options.   Relax then repeat each aloud. Tune in to align with what will work best. Cross out any options that go thud.  Listen and choose.

If you are ready to give meditation a try, mantra is a great place to start. Make friends with this practice. Grow it with repetition for a deep life long connection with your spirit.

The information provided on this website is not a substitute for professional medical care, treatment or advice. All the material here is for information purposes only. Always share strategy and work with your health care team.