Meditation
Meditation is a practice that regulates the nervous system reducing stress and allows you to connect with your inner-self and can take you to a deeper state of relaxation. It is one practice that you might choose on your path to self-realization. When practicing meditation regularly, it can help you overcome negative thoughts, reduce stress and help to alleviate depressive feelings and thoughts. There is scientific data to back that up. There are also different forms of meditation – a physical practice such as yoga or running can be a meditative practice, chanting and other forms exist too…the list goes on. You'll find tools and resources that you can use to begin a meditation or deepen one here.
Meditation Articles, Videos and Audio Files
Sound and Silence In this mindfulness meditation we explore "listening" to both sound and silence. After centering ourselves, we spend time focusing on the sound of a singing bowl and on the silence that remains when the sound
How to open to the present moment with a Vast Open Sky meditation practice! Several meditation traditions have practices that are a dropping of the ego into wide-open awareness. This is one of them and I would like
Your guide on how to become immersed in the moment with Warm Ocean Mind Have you ever been on vacation, perhaps floating in warm ocean water, or lounging on a deck or hammock completely relaxed? There is no
Why mantra meditation? Mantra meditation is a meditation technique that uses sound to open the heart and quiet the mind. Mantra meditation allows your mind to focus and concentrate clearing away other thoughts, emotions and distractions that can
What do we mean by creating more space in our lives?What do we mean by creating more space in our lives? We can look at this question from two perspectives - in terms of what we do and
Are you divine?The Path to DivinityUncovering the DivineA Space MeditationYou can jump to a specific section of this article when you click on one of the text headings above.Are you divine?Who are you? When asked such a question
Audio Meditations
This original heart opening 30-minute meditation by The Mindful Soul Center is mostly guided with background music. This heart centred music was composed with the notes and frequency of the heart chakra. This meditation allows you to connect
Subscribers are able to download some of the meditation files to listen to and keep forever.
PUBLIC Meditation Playlists
Mindful Soul Center Meditations on SoundCloud
Mindful Soul Center's YouTube [Public] Meditation Playlist
Repeating Mantras 108 Times
Have you heard that it is best to repeat a mantra 108 times? The ancient Indians from the East figured out approximately, 8000 years ago or perhaps before then that the diameter of the Sun x 108 times gives you the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and the diameter of the Moon x 108 times gives you the distance from the Earth to the Moon. 108 is a cosmic ratio of the 2 celestial bodies that affect the Earth and make life possible. Based on this data, mantras were to be repeated 108 x to ward off any negative planetary influences.
ॐ OM/AUM
ॐ Om is a sacred sound, spiritual symbol and a mantra. It is linked to divine knowledge and the cosmos and you will find a lot written about it in sacred texts in various spiritual practices. It originated with Hinduism. It is said to be the primordial sound of creation and is also referred to as Brahman the genderless concept of the transcendent and permanently pervading Supreme Cosmic Spirit that sustains the universe, the ultimate reality.
It makes sense that the syllabic sound would be used as an incantation since words are insufficient to express the vast, inexplicable and infinite creation – that this sound syllable is said to express. As an incantation, the sound of Om through chanting offers a person the opportunity to connect with the divine self in us, outside of us that permeates everything – the mystery that is unknowable yet known.
Some spiritual teachers will ask you to focus not on the sound of OM itself but to listen to the silence between the OMs.
In 2011, a study was undertaken to measure the effects of chanting OM. Does it simply relax the brain, does it stimulate the vagus nerve? What about the positive effects similar to another method used in the treatment of depression? There was some conclusive evidence that chanting OM does, in fact, have positive effects and that further study is warranted and necessary to help find how it may treat ‘disease.’
