Music can take an individual faster into meditative states.
Music allows us to transcend the everyday states of consciousness and travel to places that we either have a memory of or create in our imagination. This process of transcending the mundane evokes psycho physiologic responses when people shift to altered states of consciousness.
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A music therapy programme raised melatonin levels and improved behaviour and sleeping problems in 20 male Alzheimer’s patients. Jule Klotter, writing about this path-breaking experiment, says that the Alzheimer’s patients underwent music therapy for 30-40 minutes, five days a week for one month. Blood samples were taken before the first session, at the end of the four weeks of therapy, and six weeks after the study’s conclusion.
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We, human beings, are the privileged species who have been endowed with the power of intelligent speech, and the words which we utter can work wonders in our life. Some words can lull us to sleep, other words can soothe us and some other words can make us laugh and sing. But, some words can also injure our feelings and make us cry and weep.
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Seed Word = R
Inhale Mantra = RANM
Exhale Mantra = MIRROR
Principle = FIRE
This is a Life Preservation Chakra. The Child is yoked to the mother through the navel for food sustenance. It is located around the Navel region in the spine.
Seed word = V
Inhale Mantra = VANM
Exhale Mantra = MOOVIV
Associated Words = S, SH
Principle = WATER
It strengthens the Ovaries, the lower intestines, and the sacral region of the spine.
Seed Word = L
Inhale Mantra = LANM
Exhale Mantra = MOOLIL
Associated Words= S, SH
Principle = EARTH
The basic chakra gives power to the legs and is located between the base of the spine and the genital organ. It strengthens the Sex gland – the procreative gland, hence it is called BASIC or MOOLADHARA, on which the whole life process depends. This Chakra forms the Base of the Kundalini – the Divine Potential Energy, normally lying dormant and in its dormant state, it is compared to a coiled serpent and when the Kundalini energy becomes kindled, it moves up alongwith the breath to other Chakras, through the so called Sushumna opening in the spine to ultimately illuminate our Being. The seed word of Basic Chakra is “L’ and its associated words S & SH are able to kindle the Kundalini.
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Seed word = H
Inhale Mantra = AHANM
Exhale Mantra = MIHHIEN
Principle = ETHER
It strengthens the hearing sensation and mouth action/vocal chords and also helps the breathing system.
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Seed Word = Y
Inhale Mantra = YANM
Exhale mantra = MEEY-YOU
Principle = AIR
It strengthens the Heart for proper circulation of blood, to circulate air/oxygen/nutrients to all the cells in the body. It imparts compassion to our Heart to develop the feeling of oneness with all persons — we are all the children of this beautiful world.
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Breath is life and it is through breath that we are yoked with super-consciousness-the God Almighty and in mantric breathing, we can strengthen our link with super-consciousness by breathing with the seed word AN which constitutes the infinity in breathing as in the word “LONG”. You can breathe as long as you want, to your maximum capacity. A mantra which yokes us with Infinity is given below :-
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Seed word = M
Gland = PINEAL
Inhale Mantra = PRAM MAN
Exhale Mantra = PREMIM
Principle = RIGHT UPPER BRAIN/MIND
This is located in the crown of our head. It strengthens mind/ right upper brain. It also helps to strengthen the pineal gland, which is called the Transducer of Super-Consciousness Field.
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