It’s A Good Vibration

Om, om,om,om,om

Meditation is simple. Just sit still and stop thinking.

For most people who want to try meditation that is easier said than done.

Most beginners need some sort of tool to assist getting into a meditative state.

One such tool is a matra.

The word manta comes from the Sanskrit words “man” meaning mind and “tra” meaning vehicle or instrument.

The english words “travel”, “transportation” and “train” are derived from the Sanskrit “tra”

A mantra is a mind instrument that transports one from the busy world of the monkey mind to the still, quiet, peaceful state of characterised by non thought.

Using neuroscience terminology it allows you to turn off the default mode network and activate the direct sensory mode network.

A mantra is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound.

The word numinous is derived from the Latin numen meaning “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring.”

Its present sense was introduce by the German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book Das Heilige, which appeared in English as The Idea of the Holy in 1923.

Otto’s concept of the numinous influenced many thinkers including Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and C. S. Lewis.

Otto describes the numinous as a “non-rational, non-sensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self.”

If you can’t get into a meditative state by just sitting still and not thinking try using a mantra such as “om”.

You just repeatedly utter your mantra over and over again until there is no separation between you and the vibration of mantra.

Jim McAulay🍁 says, “ We stand today at a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.”

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