What is Mantra
Mantra is a combination of words, where its each word has a potent sonic power contained in it. And we have seen how we can resonate with each energy chakra and its associated organ/ gland in our body with its seed word and partially activate it with its associated words. Thus, each word we utter affects one or the other organ in our body, but breathing mantras in this book are so framed to be in harmony with the sequence of natural breathing or location of various energy centres in our body.
But, while speaking normally, some words we utter will be in phase/tune with natural breathing depending upon the vowel used in it, while other words will be out of phase/ harmony with the sequence of natural breathing, thus, interfering with our natural breathing and we know how in anger, we speak words rapidly, thus interfering with natural breathing, so much so, we get out of breath, the heart starts pumping rapidly to make the oxygen/nutrients reach the brain to save it. Thus, normal speaking tires us, while breathing with the properly designed mantra will help draw in pranic life energy to rejuvenate our body/mind system.
And Guru Nanak-the founder of Sikh Religion truly said, “O, Great is the Power of the WORD (MANTRA), but few there be, that know it”.
Activating Various Chakras with Single/Two Stage Breathing Mantras
Now, we shall proceed further on this journey of Self Healing by coining breathing mantras with these healing words, in consonance with the sequence of natural breathing. The vowel ‘A, AU’ stand for inhalation and EE, I, and OO stand for Exhalation. Earlier, a breathing mantra is given to stimulate that particular energy chakra only, but now we shall give breathing mantras which encampass or traverse more energy chakras simultaneously to be more useful in the healing process. The exhale/inhale mantras are mirror image of each other. We can also choose existing meaningful words from various languages as breathing mantras, provided these words satisfy the criterion of being in consonance with the sequence of natural breathing.