One of the things I practice daily for my healing and spiritual maintenance is the use of mantras. I wrote about this already about a year ago, but recently I thought it might be best to add it as a regular category in here. Similar to another recent addition, “The Power Of Prayer”, I will be introducing various mantras under this category that can be used to help others heal their lives, like they have been helping to heal mine.
By definition a “mantra” is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of creating a desired transformation within one’s own being through repetition. Initially I couldn’t understand how repeating something over and over again could help me with anything, but I learned our minds and bodies are like computers that can be programmed and reprogrammed. Through my daily repetition of various phrases, I have successfully been doing just that with all of my old tapes that were filled with nothing more than doubts, insecurities, fears, and worries. Now those tapes are being filled with much higher vibrational energies because of my daily use of mantras.
Practicing mantras has been a challenge because of my being a recovering addict. Most recovering addicts want quick fixes, but I have found there aren’t any of those in life. Sure, there were drugs and medications that created band-aids and patches to my old tapes, but nothing ever truly changed inside for the better when I used them. With mantras though, things did, except it took a lot of patience while initially practicing them to see those changes materialize.
It’s not complex to recite a mantra and there isn’t a right or wrong way to doing it either. It’s as simple as just saying the phrase repeatedly. When I started mine out, I was looking into a moving kaleidoscope when I said them because I found that helped me to move things along a little faster. Later I progressed into tapping my legs with my hands while I recited them, like I was doing a slow drum roll on my lap. Today, I actually sing my mantras for an even greater effect. But truthfully, all it really takes is to just say them aloud.
My list today has grown to around 30 different mantras. I spend about thirty minutes each day saying each of them a set number of times. My main desire in all of this is to erase each of those old lines of code within me that were written in an inefficient language I no longer desire to use. I never assume there is an endpoint to this daily mantra routine and saying them has just become a way of life for me now. I hope that you may enjoy this new category and utilize it as I have in my own life. I know that my mantras are continuing to heal me and draw me closer to God and I know they can do the same for you too.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson
