In a spiritual sense, Jim Kepner (psychologist and author) spoke of “a feeling of something opening up behind me, or sort of like falling back into another space behind me…almost as if something were shifting in the bones at the back of my neck.” This creates a physical sensation that vibrates in the body and mind, immediately normalizing the heartbeat in which the entire body automatically adjusts and responds. The door is tiny but what’s in back of the door is huge.” Cythnia Gale When we invoke a mantra, the medulla oblongata acts like a tuning fork, vibrating in sympathy with our own ‘sound’. “It’s like having a door open in the back of my head. Respiration and circulation are controlled by this center and it is the place where cosmic energy enters and feeds the entire body with prana/chi. This tiny structure at the base of the brain stem is truly the seat of life in the body. If you’ve read other articles in this blog, you’ve probably noticed the mention of the medulla oblongata more than once. Eventually there is an enery change and we discover the thought(s) that are/were controlling us. Repeating a positive phrase stimulates the release of toxins, negative thoughts, old memories and suppressed emotions….we observe and ‘feel’ the emotional distress in our body, heal it and release it. Affirmations are used to let go of unwanted and unneeded ‘stuff’.
DIANE MARIECHILD A mantra should not be confused with an affirmation. I sometimes repeat it before doing readings or other psychic work. I like this mantra because it centers me and affirms my inner wisdom. Dev is chanted one half tone higher than ong namo guru and the name is the same tone as ong. This mantra may be chanted out loud three times in this way: Take a deep breath and exhale “ong namo”, on the same tone take another short or half breath and exhale the last three words of the mantra. It’s meaning, in essence, is “I call upon the divine teacher within”. “I begin my daily yoga practice with this mantra: “Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo”. This vibrational awakening stirs old brain cells and triggers layers and layers of knowledge stored in the DNA and deep inside the cells of the physical body. The current of sound (thought by the heart and spoken by the tongue) then flows to the thymus gland, stimulating the body’s nervous system. Silently reciting or chanting a mantra activates a large group of nerves in the throat area, and the creative power of the thyroid gland. Words have a tremendous effect on the body and mind. Paying attention to a mantra, either spoken aloud, whispered or thought upon, anchors you to your center, silences the mind, allowing spirit to hear the inner voice and make contact with the Divine.
It points you to pure awareness, allowing you to let go of any attachment that would draw you away from the present moment. “The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92) would repeat his own name to himself again and again like a mantra, and by doing this would access a different state of consciousness in which whole poems came to him that he could then transcribe.” Paul McKenna The gentle repetition of a mantra is a technique used for concentrating and focusing your energy.
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