Mantra

The meaning of mantra

Mantra, or sound codes, are also a very effective method for re-tracking the mind towards better thoughts. The word mantra tends to scare people off if they’re not interested in any dogmatic belief system. And we understand we have had enough of those. It can seem intimidating, complicated, religious, or spiritual. But mantras are codes and nothing more than vibrations that effect your neurology or your glandular system in a certain way. 

Actually, mantra means “wave of mind” or “mind direction”

So a mantra is a mental wave – any kind of mental wave. But a chanted mantra is simply a sound that directs the flow of the thoughts.

And the way we use mantras in this technology is just a specific mental wave that directs the flow of the thought to something higher than the lowest common denominator.  “Sat Nam” for example, is a high caliber sound that connects you with your most authentic beingness. We’re trying to train the mind to pick up higher vibrational waves rather than your minds lowest common denominator basically, the same stuff, different day, or your particular version of a negative or habitual thought.

There is an alchemy process that happens from the sound. And we’re just scratching the surface of what the technology of sound is and how it works in western science. MRI’s are a sound technology. A study at McGill University measured the brain chemistry of people before they made a sound, or sang a song as well as afterward. The chemistry of people, singing or chanting was much more serotonin and dopamine rich. So we’re starting to get some research around the same sound science that as yogis we have known for thousands of years, which is exciting and very important. 

Jappa, the repetition of highly tuned sounds, has a kind of alchemy process, discovered in yoga science through repetitive practice. The yoga term for this alchemy process is tappa. Mantra is the sound, Jappa is the repetition, and tappa is the alchemy process that takes the mind from negative and self-defeating thoughts to something more positive and clarifying.

For the most part, the repetition of your thoughts is the repetition of a subconscious mantra that is connected to self loathing, self doubt, or self failure mechanisms. And that’s what getting repeated over and over. When we introduced into the system of repetition, Jappa, of a more stable and self-supporting sound current, then everything starts to change.

There may seem to be a lot of spiritual jargon involved in certain mantra, but in reality it is a science. No one is interested in indoctrination. We all want activation into our highest self. You can use the science of the sound to begin to clear the finite storage space of the subconscious mind. When you do this, it creates a space for more creativity and flow of the actual experience in life, as opposed to past and future, yo-yo games, or what are called mental intrigues 

Since every thought is a mantra, it’s good to check in regularly with the subconscious mantra that play out in our head. Personally, if I don’t like the direction of my subconscious mantra, I can supplement it with a more uplifting creative one from Yoga. When the going gets tough or whenever it feels a little elevation is needed, chanting out loud is useful. Chanting out loud uses the tip of the tongue to stimulate the 84 meridians on the roof of the mouth in a particular code to activate, healthy brain, chemistry, and emotional balance.