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"Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment.

The most powerful tool we have... to make miracles out of our desires, is meditation."

- Deepak Chopra, M.D.

 

What is meditation?

 

 For thousands of years, people have used meditation to move beyond mental and emotional turbulence into profound peace and expanded awareness. As scientific research reveals, when you meditate, your breathing slows, your blood pressure decreases, and your stress hormone levels fall. Even as your body is resting deeply in meditation, your mind is awake, though quiet. The term restful awareness captures the unique combination of physical relaxation and an alert yet calm mind.

 

The most important benefit of meditation is how it affects your daily life. When you end your meditation session, you take some of the stillness and calm with you as you move through your day. Therefore all of your thoughts, actions, and reactions are infused with a little more love and mindful attention. The result is a deeper appreciation and a profound awareness of the divine quality of existence.

 

What happens during meditation?

 

 There is a common misconception that meditation is about forcing your mind to be perfectly quiet, getting rid of all thoughts. This myth leads many people to try meditating once or twice, then give up in frustration when they can’t stop the flood of thoughts.

 

In reality, noticing your mind’s constant activity is the first important step in meditation. As the Chopra Center’s co-founder David Simon often tells new meditators: “The thought that ‘I’m having thoughts’ may be the most important thought you ever thought, because before you had that thought, you may not have even known you were having thoughts. You probably thought you were your thoughts. “

 

When you cultivate a meditation practice, you start to notice that thoughts arise and fall away against a backdrop of pure consciousness. You get fleeting glimpses of the space between thoughts – the peaceful state sometimes referred to as “the gap.”

 

As you continue to meditate, your experience of the space between your thoughts expands, allowing you greater access to the unbounded awareness and silence within. In this state of pure presence, you begin to realize that you aren’t a skin-encapsulated ego-mind . . . that your true Self is eternal spirit.

 

There are countless ways to meditate, including focusing on the breath, visualization, and vipassana. The Chopra Center recommends and teaches the timeless practice of Primordial Sound Meditation – a natural and powerful process that’s also easy to learn.

 

In this technique we sit in any posture that feels comfortable with our eyes closed and repeat our mantra silently. For maximum benefits meditation has to be done two times a day for 30 minutes each time.

 

Rooted in India’s Vedic tradition, Primordial Sound Meditation is a mantra-based technique, which means that you silently repeat a specific mantra to access the peace and stillness within. When you learn Primordial Sound Meditation, you receive your own personal mantra based on the time and place of your birth.

 

What is mantra?

 

 The word mantra has two parts: man, which is the root of the Sanskrit word for mind; and tra, which is the root of the word instrument. A mantra is therefore an instrument of the mind, a powerful sound or vibration that you can use to enter a deep state of meditation.

 

According to the Vedic tradition, the ancient sages were able to hear the subtle vibrations produced by everything in nature ―the sounds of the wind, thunder, butterflies, rushing rivers and all other creations. They recognized that these sounds are the manifestation of spirit into matter. They identified “Om” (or aum) as the most elemental sound, representing the infinite universal consciousness. For thousands of years, people have used this mantra to expand their awareness of the divine.

 

The ancient seers also identified all the primordial vibrations or mantras that make up the universe, and these were eventually recorded in the Vedic literature. You can actually hear all the mantras yourself if you sit quietly. You’ll notice a background hum in the air, and as you practice focusing on that hum, you’ll ultimately hear every mantra the sages recorded long ago.

 

Silently repeating a mantra as you meditate is a powerful way to enter the silence of the mind. As you repeat the mantra, it creates a mental vibration that allows the mind to experience deeper levels of awareness. As you meditate, the mantra becomes increasingly abstract and indistinct, until you’re finally led into the field of pure consciousness from which the vibration arose. In the deepest meditative state, all thoughts and worries drop away and you experience the quiet that always exists beneath the noisy internal dialogue of the mind. In this stillness you may feel oneness with all life and profound peace.

 

Each mantra induces specific vibrations in the mind, which is why people use different mantras depending upon their intentions. However, mantras don’t have particular meanings―they are simply vibrations of consciousness. When they’re silently repeated, they help us disconnect from the thoughts filling our mind and slip into the gap between thoughts.

 

Aborigines, Indians, Native Americans, and many other traditional cultures have used it for thousands of years. In every tradition mantras involve chanting to create special vibrations, sounds of the universe that create something from nothingness, that move energy from the unmanifest into the manifest.

 

Primordial Sound Meditation is a natural, effortless practice based on India's ancient yogic tradition. When you learn this timeless technique, you receive your own personal mantra based on the vibration the universe was creating at the moment of your birth. Primordial Sound Meditation is a powerful way to connect to your inner Self and release stress and fatigue.

 

 

Question: What if I can't sit still to meditate?

Question: How often will I have to meditate?

Question: How long will it be before I start to notice some benefits from the meditation?

Question: Is Primordial Sound Meditation the best technique there is?

Answers: these and many more Frequently Asked Questions are answered in F.A.Q. section.

 

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