Changing your vibration
It’s all about the vibration, man!
If you are rolling your eyes, don’t worry. I did the same when I heard this sentence many years ago. But it is true, vibrations are around us and within us too, and I believe I was able to change my own vibrational energy from illness to wellness using mantra meditation.
Us human beings are always oscillating (another word for vibration) – if you think about it, we can measure the oscillation of our hearts on a ECG and our brains on an EEG. The cells of your body have molecules which are vibrating too. According to healthline, ‘Your body is composed of energy-producing particles, each of which is in constant motion. So, like everything and everyone else in the universe, you are vibrating and creating energy’, they then go on to say ‘Proponents believe it’s possible to speed up or slow down the vibrations that occur at the cellular and atomic levels by changing our thoughts, behaviours — and even our surroundings.’
Mantra is a sanskrit word meaning ‘mind device’ or ‘mind vehicle’. I first discovered this type of meditation when I was reading a book on Buddhism. At this point, I had been poorly with M.E. for a couple of years. I was desperate to find a path to wellness, and I hoped the Buddhists would be able to help me find it. Within the book, there was a chapter about mantra meditation. Mantra meditation is based on the repetition of either a sound, syllable, word, phrase or a string of sentences within your mind. In the book it suggested repeating Om, believed to be the oldest hymn in the Universe. I didn’t want to Om, so instead picked three English words: Happy, Healthy and Strong.
Everyday, I would sit in meditation and repeat one of these words. Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it was hard, but either way I would continue to repeat the mantra. Over time, I could feel changes within me, so much so, I decided to repeat the words when I was cleaning my teeth, or whilst washing-up, or even driving the car. Two years later, I had become Happy, Healthy & Strong.
Since then, I have experimented with many different mantras – one year, I decided I wanted to be the kind of person who was calm within the chaos of life, so I committed to repeating the word ‘serene’. As the year progressed, I discovered a profound connection of that level of calmness within me. I have also used: ‘today is a great day’; ‘I have all the time in the world’; ‘I am safe, all is well’; and ‘everything is divine order’, but my favourite type of mantra meditations are the Sanskrit ones. With these types of mantras, the meaning comes through the vibration.
Last month, I gifted a “Thank You” mantra video, this month I am gifting a Sanskrit version, “Sat Nam”. The rough translation of Sat Nam, is ‘Truth is my Identity’, or ‘I am the truth’. In my kundalini yoga classes it is used as a greeting and also as a way to say goodbye. It can also be used as a way of thanking someone for imparting information. In this context, it is acknowledging the true nature or Divine within the other person.
I hope you enjoy.
