Category: The Power Of Mantras

Some time ago I wrote about part of my morning spiritual routine which includes reciting mantras. At first when I started this almost a year ago, my list of mantras was quite small. I kind of felt silly doing them too. My brain continuously told me, “Is this really doing anything?” But ironically it was.

Fighting against my brain’s natural recourse for wanting a quick fix with everything, I spend around 35 minutes every morning with my list of mantras these days. They have evolved over the past year since I started them. I originally started with approximately twelve or so and since then the list has grown to almost thirty now.

It has amazed me that many of the original mantras I started with have been rewritten several times. When I first began this, most of the mantras I recited came from a place of wanting things to release or change in my life. Today, all of them come from a place of believing I already have received them. I have found this to be more successful and more powerful in my using them.

I don’t believe that mantras are something I could have recited just once or twice and received benefit. The mind and body is like a computer which has a hard drive. Much of the programming has been in place on that hard drive for many years. I have come to accept that it takes time to rewire and reprogram all of those old tapes, messages, and programs that have kept me in much of my unhealthiness over the years.

Below is a list of just some of the mantras that I recite every day at least ten times. This list has been tooled by many of my holistic practitioners who know my history. I know that over time, it will continue to change and grow as I do with God.

 I am handsome and I am beautiful on every level and in every way.

  I am not a burden on any level and in any way to myself or anyone else.

I forgive myself on every level and in every way for all things I’ve done not of love and light.

I am free of all pain, negativity, toxicity, and self-pity in every area of my life.

 I am free of all addictions and obsessions in every area of my life.

 I am free all jealousy, judgments, envy, and lust in every area of my life.

 I am free of all greed, gluttony, false pride, and laziness in every area of my life.

I am free of all anger and resentments in every area of my life.

 I am free of all shame, guilt, doubt, worry, and fear in every area of my life.

I am free of all trapped emotions in every area of my life.

 I am free of all burdens from my past.

I love my mind, body, and soul unconditionally and trust all of their wisdom.

I walk forward in faith and trust, and have acceptance that all is in my greatest highest good.

I move into my greater good, which is everywhere. I am safe and secure in this greater good.

I love, embrace, and rejoice in all of my sexuality unconditionally.

I love and accept myself unconditionally. I deserve love and respect and accept nothing less.

In every single area of my life, I am serving my greatest highest good, which is God.

I feel fantastic right now in every area of my life.

I am healthy and well in every area of my life. I am fully healed.

I am filled with an abundance of God’s health, healing, and well being in every area of my life.

I am filled with an abundance of God’s peace, love, happiness, and joy in every area of my life.

 God, I am open to receiving all of Your love that You have for me.

God, I have complete faith, trust, and acceptance of You working within me in every area of my life. 

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson

Much of my life until the age of 39 was plagued by doubt, insecurity, fear, and worry. From an initial groundwork that was laid by my parents who suffered similar traits, I grew up demonstrating most of their same behaviors. Until last year, I believed there was no ability for me to ever change those characteristics that were so deeply imbedded within me. Our minds and bodies are like computers which can be programmed and reprogrammed. Through repeated work and fine tuning, I believe that all the “bugs” can be worked out of any computer programs that were written long ago within each of us. One of those tools that I have found to help immensely achieve this, is mantras.

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. I was probably exposed to mantras long ago when I went into psychotherapy just after quitting drinking and drugs and finding my first year of sobriety passing me by. Therapists might not have used the word mantra back then, but I was told that when a thought arose which was not a desired one, to combat it by verbalizing the exact opposite or desired one. Unfortunately, as mentioned in a previous entry, I was always looking for quick fixes and after a few attempts to combat the thoughts, I resorted to taking medications that suppressed them instead. Over the years, the medications had to change as my body stopped responding to them and the unwanted thoughts returned.

Last year when the pain was so severe within me on every level, and I no longer was finding relief through medications, I made a pledge to myself to start practicing mantras every day with the belief that it was changing me inside. I knew I didn’t become the way I was overnight and I knew some of the programs written within me probably had to be completely redone. Because of this, I maintained the attitude that it was going to take time and patience. I wrote up a list in a word document of mantras that covered the areas of my life most troublesome throughout all of it. And I decided to add an element to my daily repetition of them that came to me as an idea one day. I know that repeated visual images can induce change as well so I bought a kaleidoscope and I began to use it while I recited each mantra. Three times in one eye. Three times in the other. Then three times back in the first eye. And finally three times back in the other.

My list today has grown to 24 different mantras. I spend somewhere between 35 and 45 minutes every morning saying them again and again and again. It’s been over 9 months now since I undertook this new addition to my spiritual journey. Have I seen changes to those old programs and tapes? Absolutely. It didn’t happen overnight just as I thought it wouldn’t. The changes were subtle and as time moved forward, I noticed I was having better thoughts, choosing more positive actions, and making better decisions in all areas of my life. I continually tweak this list making updates to it as my life evolves closer to God.

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 don’t assume there is an endpoint to this daily mantra routine. I just know there will be change to the list as I continue to heal and become a healthier servant of God.

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson