Discovering Mantras to Help Heal, Change + Grow.

Discovering Mantras to Help Heal, Change + Grow.

Mantras are a simple yet powerful tool we can use in our meditations or even just in a mindful moment. It is like using an affirmation. We silently repeat it and as we do it activates different responses in our body. Many popular mantras are in Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-European language of India, but mantras have deep roots in every major spiritual tradition and can be found in many languages, including Hindi, Hebrew, Latin and English.

To understanding how mantras works, it can be helpful to look at the translation of the Sanskrit word.

Manas: meaning mind and tra: meaning tool. This literally translates into “a tool for the mind.” So, into my wellness toolbox it goes.

Each mantra has a sound vibration which echoes within our bodies as we repeat this (either by chanting or silently repeating.) That vibration sinks deeper and deeper into your consciousness, helping you to eventually feel its presence as shakti—or power, throughout our body and mind.

These are a few basic mantras which are easy to use but have powerful effects. Find the purpose which may serve you the most and incorporate the mantra into your meditation or simply have a mindful moment while making your coffee and silently repeat it to yourself.

So Ham

Purpose: Connecting with your soul.

Translation: “I am that”. Meaning I am one with the universe and I am pure awareness. Helps you to grow spiritually and establish a connection with your soul. Helps create stillness and awareness beneath our active, thinking minds. Brings clarity and awareness. Pronounced: sō hum.

Ram

Purpose: To reconnect with your body & release what is no longer needed.

Activates healing in the body, mind and emotions. Connects your physical energy and strength to your unlimited spiritual energy. It activates and revitalizes all aspects of your body and mind.

Lam

Purpose: A healing mantra.

Provides balance and healing in the mind and body and a calm and peaceful basis while activating your core of stability and security.

Yam

Purpose: To open yourself to optimal life choices.

Welcomes change with joy, helps remain open, receptive and accepting, helps release the past and embrace the present with an open heart. Releases dysfunctional habits and creates space to embrace new ones.

Vam

Purpose: Getting unstuck + freeing the mind.

Brings the body and mind into balance, contentment and wholeness. Allowing your true nature of ease and bliss. Healing with self-care to free the mind and release from anything holding you from moving forward.

Aim Klim Suah

Purpose: Healing worry, fear and anxiety.

Attuning your heart’s deepest desires by releasing anxiety. Creating fearlessness instead of worry by releasing stress and restoring balance. Pronounced: i’m / kleem / saw

Hrim Shrim Klim

Purpose: Healing the spirit.

Opening your awareness to wisdom, love and generosity. Accepting that you are always connected to everyone and everything. Helping heal our ‘conditioned minds’ as we reveal our spirit’s valuable purpose. Pronounced: hreem / shreem / kleem.

Hum

Purpose: Tuning in to your body and self-care.

Brings the power of transformation. Helps tune in and pay attention to the messages your body and mind are sending you.

Om namah shivaya

Purpose: Taking care of the mind so the mind can take care of you.

Helps to open yourself to the transcendent silence of awareness. Healing the mind so your mind can heal your body and soul. Helps to identify with your true nature, your true self. Your mind is your intimate friend and healer. Pronounced: aum / nuh-muh / shiv-eye-ah.

Shivo Ham

Purpose: Finding inner peace and joy.

Helps create stillness and clarity amid stressful days. Opens the heart to recognize that creativity, peace and joy are your essential nature. Revealing that we don’t need to go anywhere or acquire anything. Helps find deeper powers within ourselves. Pronounced: shee-voh / hum.

Siddho Ham

Purpose: Finding the path to self-worth.

Brings the power of realization that you are perfect and complete. Building self-esteem as you experience your true self. Allows you to be open and accepting and remain fully in the present moment, releasing the past. Pronounced: see-doh / hum.

Aham Prema

Purpose: Attracting love by seeing love within first.

Meaning: I am pure love. Bringing awareness that love fills every relationship you have but first, you must seek the love you have within you, find the love for yourself first. Then you will overflow and find and fill love externally. Pronounced: ah-hum / pray-mah.

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