Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing

I learned about this author, when Mark, the Yoga Instructor, told my friend and me that he uses the prayer beads I noticed hanging around his neck, to recite mantras. I told him about the prayer beads I had made during my March 2014 temple stay at Beomeo temple in South Korea, and then I wanted to know where he learned about mantras. He wrote Thomas Ashley-Farrand's name on a post-it note for each of us.Early on in the book, Ashley-Farrand describes the many cultures and religions, practicing some form of mantra for centuries and the ancient language used for mantras.One of the first mantras he shares is to counterbalance limiting karma. I started reciting it as soon as I came to it. The next mantra I started was a healing mantra with my husband, who suffers from acute back pain. I could never have guessed what followed my reciting this healing mantra. A woman from India, a stranger to me, started talking to me about body aches and her secret (tapioca); the day after I had spent a night with my own hip pain. I was surprised, even though I do believe in synchronicity. I wrote about in my book,  Learning to Be You; It's an Inside Job: Recovery and Healing for the Loved Ones of the Substance-Addicted . Ashley-Farrand also writes about it in this book, he writes that in the Far East this phenomenon is called upaguru.I've now settled on reciting a mantra for an inner condition. This mantra has three phases, the initial to heal the inner condition (Ashley-Farrand shares a list of 21 inner conditions, examples are: anger, shame, fear, grief); phase two of the series is the mantra for salve, phase three is for the new skin or bandage.There are so many mantras, like me, you may not know where to begin. The author shares that it was his reciting mantras that supported him in writing this book. I think you will agree that the mantra worked, since this book has become a next step on my spiritual journey. I liked it so much I bought a book for my grown children, who strung their own prayer beads with me during the temple stay, and another book with  108 Wood Beads Buddhist Prayer Meditation Wrist Mala Necklace  for my dear friend who took me to Mark's yoga class, while I was in Houston on business.

I recently completed yoga teacher training and during the course we did some chanting.I was intrigued and wanted to learn more!Thomas does an amazing job with instruction, history and description without boring the reader.Strongly recommend

The CD “Healing Mantras” by Thomas Ashley-Farrand is a series of beautiful mantras, most of which are Hindu. The CD contains twenty-eight tracks, many of which also include brief introductions to each mantra, its history, its significance, its traditional purpose, its translation, and how to pronounce the words, ending with one track consisting solely of meditative instrumental Indian music. In addition to the lyrics of the various chants, the liner notes also includea glossary of terms and a bibliography of additional resources. I had heard this CD for the first time a few years ago when I began attending chanting and meditation retreats led by a friend of mine, Susan Atchison, who is a professional counselor, therapist and spiritual healer who primarily specializes in various forms of spiritual healing from various religions and spiritual traditions. I have attended chanting and meditation retreats with her for the past few years. Before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and before she decided to move away, her place of business, a place called Healing Soul, was a couple streets down from my house, and each retreat would be once a month, but now, in addition to the group events, she and I do weekly chanting/meditation retreats together over Zoom every Saturday afternoon. While I enjoy listening to all of the chants on this CD, our meditation/chant group only tends to chant certain mantras based on what month and/or season it is. By contrast, the individual sessions I do with Susan consist of different chant/meditation programs every time. This is why, while I have heard some of these chants before, there are many others which are new to me. I have also heard “Om Ayim Saraswatiye” before because the famous American-born Hindu convert and Grammy-nominated chant artist, Krishna Das, has chanted this particular mantra as what is known as a “kirtan” (a call-and-response chant) on his CD, “Kirtan Wallah.” This CD is ideal for chanting, meditation, prayer, stress relief, spiritual healing, or simply just listening to if you just want to relax.

I adore this book! It has opened so many doors for me in my personal life as well as my spiritual practice, that I just can't speak highly enough of it.I have used the techniques in this book for a wide variety of purposes over the past 7 years. I deepened by connection to and relationship with the many of the divinities and spiritual forces presented in this book, and in Shakti Mantras by the same author. I have also literally transformed my life by applying the methods and mantras presented here to the various challenges that I faced - in health, in relationship, in finances, in career, and in just about every other aspect of my life that you can imagine.I often get asked for good resources for learning more about mantras and about starting a mantra practice, and I always point people to this book first. Thomas Ashley-Farrand (may he rest in peace) has a true gift for making what can be a very complex subject easily accessible and understandable to those new to the topic *without* dumbing it down into useless fluff. He also makes the subject matter come alive and be very easily approached and embraced.I've had this book for years and I still pull it out and refer to it several times each year. Each time I open it up, I find something new that I can incorporate into my practice. Whenever I have a challenge in life, I pull out this and his other book Shakti Mantras for a place to start working spiritually towards the resolution. I am never disappointed!

Simple and usefull mantras.

This is my go to book for mantra basics and translations and uses. Excellent book.

Bonjour chansons de mantras en anglais avec explications en anglais mélodieux même lorsque l'on comprend pas beaucoup l'anglais je recommande mieux qu'un livre

Me lo recomendaron. Imprescindible para quien quiera saber sobre mantras.! Muy muy bueno!

Awesome book for all people that find Mantras interessting or want something to know about them. The delivery was fast and everything looks great.