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Mantra Meditation

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I loved this book. I knew nothing about mantra meditating. Now I have fifteen mantras to use, I know how to pronounce the sounds in each correctly, and I know when it's best to use each. This is a great book for beginners.

I began with the mantra for clearing karma related to wealth for 40 days, then I chanted the mantra to attract wealth for 40 days. It was easy with the CD- I was able to do the daily chant while driving to work- and in the middle of the second series of chanting, I was promoted at work, and received a 32% pay increase. This book and CD are more than worth the money and time spent!

I bought Mantra Meditation and Healing Mantras and plan on buying ALL of Ashley-Farrand's books. I started out saying a mantra for abundance b/c naturally as humans most of us believe material things are what we need to feel happy, but after a half an hour I realized the mantra didn't resonate with me, but through saying it I realized my loved ones are more important to me, so I started saying one for healing for my husband who has been suffering from chronic pain since 2001. His illness has affected every aspect of our lives and relationship.

The mantra (Om Apadamapa Hataran Dataram Sarva Sampadam, Loka Bhi Ramam Shri Ramam Bhuyo Bhuyo Namamyaham) also known as a "freight train" mantra seemed to heal everything that needed healing within myself and my relationship with my husband. He really opened up to me and told me some very sweet things he's never said to me (and we've been together for ten years). He doesn't even know about the mantras.

My internal anger disappeared and my hatred of my new neighborhood (we just bought a house and I hated the neighborhood and my snobby neighbors) disappeared and we decided to not sell our home but rather cherish it as a blessing. I didn't just feel hopeful, I felt empowered to reach my goals finally. The intro to Mantra Meditation is an excellent lesson in the power we have over our own lives.

The mantra is always with me. I find m/s saying it in my head like a song you cannot stop singing. Instead of day dreaming I say it on the walk to work, or while waiting for the bus, loading the washer, cleaning my home, before I go to bed and as soon as I open my eyes in the morning. They really become a part of you.

I definitely recommend this book and Healing Mantras. I never want to be w/o them and will use them for the rest of my life. Ashley-Farrand does a great job in Healing Mantras of teaching the reader/user how to properly pronounce the mantras. I have looked around my local area to see if I can find anyone else who writes about what TAF does and have found nothing locally. TAF keep up the great work!

I bought this book a couple of years ago on a whim. It wasn't till a couple of months ago did I actually start putting it into practice. I would have to say this book has changed my life. I love that it comes with a CD making it really easy to pronounce the words which without it may be extremely difficult. I have referred this book to my friends and they too have had wonderful life changing experiences. Most people see changes within the first 2 weeks of starting. The mantra to remove karma to increase wealth in itself is worth the time and money spent.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with their karmic debt.

In this 80 page primer on Mantra meditation, Ashley-Ferrand admirably covers all the bases and provides numerous Mantras to work with. The book includes several chapers on spiritual phychology, destiny, the aims of human life, and the discipline of Mantra practice. He then offers chapters of Mantras for abundance, karma, dharma and so on. For each Mantra he gives a nice explanation of the goal of the Mantra and each element of the Mantra. The CD is excellent and is the only way you are really going to know how to recite the Mantras accurately without a personal guide. As usual, the Sounds True qualtiy is excellent.

This form of meditation is not suited to everyone. It requires the ability to sustain new habits for an extended period of time. It also seems almost ridiculously simple. Given my busy life, simple looked good to me.

I could easily fit this form of meditation into my long commutes and it worked amazingly well to calm my mind and clear my thoughts. On that score alone it was well worth the time & cash investment, but there have been other changes of great significance that developed during my first 40 day chanting practice. Internally I found it possible to accept a formerly challenging situation of many years duration and even turn it into a pleasurable and productive activity, and to my amazement at the same time some difficult neighbors we've had for a very long time were given an eviction notice!

At the very least mantra practice is a natural tranquilizer, and at the very best it might actually work with vibration to modify psychic and social structures. I would say the purchase and use of this product has really changed my life, and could not recommend it more highly to one who is willing to work at it and give it some time.

I am from Sydney, Australia and I have been looking for something about mantras that is easy to read, digestible and practical. I enjoyed reading every page and the accompanying CD has been fantastic. I feel as if I'm not learning alone as I chant along with the CD. It is a great book for beginners and it has made me feel comfortable approaching the idea of chanting.

I would recommend this to anyone who is just 'starting out' and needs a no-nonsense, up-front approach to understanding the path to enlightenment. Whether you get there or not, this is a wonderfully comfortable initiation.

When I bought this book a few years ago, I confused the title Mantra Meditation to mean a primer on meditation similar to the TM technique. After my initial dissapointment that I bought a book that was only partially related to what I was looking for, I picked it up and can honestly say that I have chanted a number of the chants in this book virtually every day for years. It's really relaxing when I'm in the car and definitely has a relaxing effect during rush hour. In addition, I am confident that they also work through personal experience. This is one the few book on spirituality or personal development I would whoe-heartedly recommend.

Mantra Meditation has a book and CD included in the purchase. They provide a good intro to how to use a mantra and lets you decide what area of your life you would like to affirm. After selecting which mantra you are going to focus on, you turn on the CD and it chants the mantras for you. The mantras themes and lengths vary.

The author sets you up for as much success as you decide you want.

It is clearly explained and is a nice tool to have.

The CD contains mantras with explanation how to use them and how they are suppose to work. Each mantra is chanted by the author at least 7 times (7~108) depending on the importance or length of the mantra, I guess)so you can get the feeling and get the pronunciation right. Mantras help me personally to quiet down chattering in my mind.