Back By Popular Demand

A mantra meditation.

Hello there.

This week, mantra meditation is back by popular demand.

We all know about mantras as slogans, affirmations, or reminders to ourselves of how we want things to go, but in meditation, mantras mean something different. They are simple, repeated sounds, and the mantra itself has less meaning than the silence between the repetitions.

When we silently repeat a mantra in our minds more and more loosely, we can achieve quieter and quieter states of consciousness. We aren’t listening for the mantra, rather, we are listening for the silence. Try to favor the silence gently and see what happens.

This style of meditation is a great opportunity to observe the busy chatter of your mind, get to know yourself, and possibly even dip below the surface level and achieve a deeper state of existence.

Serious adherents of this form of meditation practice with a mantra twice a day for twenty minutes each time. The recording below is a shorter ten-minute version, so if you want to do the full twenty, set a timer and keep going.

Give it a try, and please let me know how it goes.