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Lesson 1 Can our thoughts shape the future?
Lesson 2 The spirit of place
Lesson 3 The power of the collective
Lesson 4 Peace through group power
Lesson 9 The prayer of the singing mantra
Lesson 11 The brighter side of life
Lesson 30 Peak intensity
Lesson 32 Moving aside
Lesson 33 On the same wavelength
Lesson 34 The mental dry run
Lesson 36 Heavenly bodies
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May you live in the peace of the universal sound. It still incorporates the OM
sound, but then adds to it the SHAHHN
and TEE sounds. The tempo of this chant
is, again, down to personal choice, but
its usually best to begin slower, even
if you are naturally inclined towards a
relatively fast tempo. To begin with, try
to work on the basis of one beat per
second; giving two beats to the OM
sound, one beat for SHAHHN and three
beats for TEE. If breathing is difficult,
stop between each syllable, and then
extend the TEE sound beyond two beats.
Another wonderful mantra is
SOHAM, or SO-HAHMMM, which
means: I am That, a profound expression from the Vedas. Its purpose is to
unite you to universal consciousness.
The two sounds are supposed to represent polarities: SO is the male Yang
e n e rg y, and HAM is the female Yin. It
also joins inspiration, or cold, and expiration, or warmth. Unlike most mantras,
it can be sounded inwardly, or you can
chant the SO silently, and the HAM
audibly, or you can chant both syllables
out loud.
The SO sound should be produced on
the inbreath by drawing in air through
the mouth which, with the help of the
tongue, can make a snake-like hissing
sound as it enters. As the air reaches the
throat, create the OH sound almost as a
whisper. Then, on the outbreath, the
whispering should change to a HAH
sound. Finally, close your lips to create
the final MMM sound, which will be
almost inaudible.
According to the Buddhist tradition,
the OM MANI PADME HUM mantra is
one of the most sacred. The OM sound
has the same meaning as in the Hindu
faith, while MANI refers to the divine
that lives in all our hearts, and PADME
is the lotus. At the end is us, the individual, a finite spark from the eternal consciousness, represented by the HUM
sound. Chant OM for two beats, then
MA, NI, PAD and ME for one beat
each, and finish with HUM, sustained
for three beats.
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Further reading
DAngelo J. Healing With the Vo i c e .
London: Thorsons, 2000
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Carey B. Hypnotic reach: Doctors find recovery is aided by helping patients into healing trances.
Los Angeles Times, 5 January 2004: F.1
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In this first of a series on sending inten - six Protestants while praying, it was distion, we examine the importance of covered that, rather than their brainreaching a peak of aware n e s s .
waves slowing, they actually sped up.3
Research by Daniel Goldman, author
he received wisdom among the of Emotional Intelligence and other
scientific community is that, dur- books about the science of meditation,
ing psychic events, the brain also shows that the brains neocortex in
slows down. Much of the electro- meditators speeds up while being cut
encephalographic (EEG)-based research off from the limbic system, and that
on meditation shows that meditation portions of the brain are selectively
leads to an increase in alpha rhythms switched off so that the brain can con(slow, high-amplitude brainwaves of centrate on a particular area with heightfrequencies of 813 cycles per second). ened perception, without the overlay
In our ordinary waking consciousness, of emotion or meaning.4
our brain operates on beta waves (around
Other researchers have discovered
1340 Hz).
that different forms of meditation can
A rich body of meditation literature produce strikingly different patterns on
had shown that an alpha and theta state EEG. Yogis strive for anuraga, or a sense
predominates during meditation.1 of constant fresh perception, whereas
Similarly, the literature on meditation Zen Buddhists strive to eliminate all
and researches into parapsychology have response to the outer world, and studies
stressed the importance of the alpha comparing the two have found that medstate.
itation can lead to a heightened percepHowever, there have been notable tual awareness or inner absorption,
exceptions. During his sessions with depending upon whether the type of
Michael Persinger, master remote-view- meditation practiced is object-based or
er Ingo Swann, whod been wired up object-less.
to an EEG machine, showed bursts of
Yet other studies show that meditafast beta activity, which were found to tion can actually shut down the response
be in the gamma range (3540 Hz), of the limbic emotional center and
intermixed with alpha rhythms in the enhance perception of the neocortex.5
temporal lobes during rest. Persingers
Sara Lazars functional magnetic resalgebraic equations showed that those onance imaging (fMRI) work on experibursts of high frequency (consisting of enced practitioners of mindfulness med7-Hz spikes) occurred primarily over the itation (see Science of The Field) shows
right occipital region of the brain, and that signals are significantly increased
corresponded to moments when Swann in the neural structures of the brain
was receiving information. Swann, it involved with attention. 6
seemed, had calmed himself down so
And new evidence of hers using ordithat he could enter a superconscious nary MRI shows that, in practitioners
state. 2
of meditation, those portions of the brain
Other studies of deep meditation associated with attention and sensory
have shown that, during the deepest processing are thicker in people who
states, experienced meditators have meditate compared with controls and
bursts of high-frequency beta or gamma that, like Davidsons results, these
waves, often associated with moments changes are dose-dependent: the
of ecstasy or intense concentration. increases in cortical thickness are proDuring these moments, the heart rate can portional to the amount of time the paralso accelerate.1 In fact, in a study ticipant has spent meditating in his or
where investigators took the EEGs of her lifetime.
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a state of calm, but focused, peak intensitya sense of hyperawareness of everything happening outside of you
Practice until you are able to reach a peak intensity with regularity.
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Moving aside
In a number of studies of healers, the
one common thread within a huge vari ety of techniques is a willingness to
surrender to a greater healing forc e
beyond themselves. They put out their
intention and then step backa tech nique we can all use in our everyday
lives.
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The Field.
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[abstr]. Proceedings of the Quantum
Mind Conference, March 1519, 2003,
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McCraty R et al. The electricity of
touch: Detection and measurement of
cardiac energy exchange between people, in Pribram KH, ed. Brain and
Values: Is a Biological Science of
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Po s s i b l e ?
Mahwah,
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998:
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Heavenly bodies
The re s e a rch conducted to date sug gests that mind-over-matter intention
(or psychokinesis) works best when the
earth experiences increased geomag netic activity.
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