What exactly is a mantra, you ask?

Its a word or phrase repeated over and over again during meditation.

But using mantras for meditation involves a lot more than just sounding like a broken record. Theyre generally sacred in nature a name or sound that both uplifts you and helps you keep your focus during meditation. In other words, theyre designed to change you.

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The thing about mantras for meditation, is that they give your brain something to do. Yes, spiritual mantras are meant to transform you just by uttering them again and again, but theres a lot to be said for saying something just to keep nonsense babble at bay.

And speaking of nonsense babble, rather than just giving you some meaningless drivel like my shoes are green, or I love pickled herring, (which, for keeping your mind busy during meditation, does have its benefits. But lets face it, this is broken record material and nothing more).

Here are some tried and true mantras to help you use meditation for transformation.

An oldie but a goodie, you really cant mess this one up too badly. The Om is the sacred sound of Hinduism and is said to mean, variously: It Is, Will Be or To Become.

Rhis ones from Tibet and it means, roughly, Hail the Jewel in the Lotus. The jewel in this case is the Buddha of Compassion.

Homage to the Buddha of boundless light.

This is one of the Hebrew Torahs most famous lines, and it was Gods answer to Moses when Moses asked for his name.

The Hindu variant, meaning I am THAT.

Hooponopono (Hawaiian) Mantra.

It all started with the ancient Hindus, but the use of mantras for meditation has since spread mostly through the Far East among Buddhists, Taosts, Sikhs and others. Today, Western peeps on a spiritual path also create mantras.

Many of them seem more like affirmations, but the ones that are short-n-sweet still work nicely for that all-important transformative effect.

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