{"id":41278,"date":"2022-03-30T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17485"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:00:09","slug":"what-is-mantra-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/meditation\/what-is-mantra-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mantra Meditation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who are struggling to meditate resort to mantra meditation to improve concentration and boost awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Because it can help you stay focused, mantra meditation could improve your meditation skills.<\/p>\n<p>A mantra is a word or phrase that you can repeat during meditation.<\/p>\n<p>You can use your mantra as a tool to release your mind and concentrate to achieve the focus you need for mediation.<\/p>\n<p>You can use it to get you in the right state of mind it mantra meditation could also have potential benefits, such as:<\/p>\n<h3>Better breathing control<\/h3>\n<p>Repeating a mantra while trying to meditate could enable you to help find a natural breathing rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>It might take time before you feel the benefits, but matching your breath to your mantra can speed up the process and make you feel more relaxed.<\/p>\n<h3>Improves focus<\/h3>\n<p>Many people who practice meditation believe that chanting certain syllables can enable a deeper state of focus.<\/p>\n<p>It can help release blocked energy that stops you from entering the meditative state.<\/p>\n<h3>Brain benefits<\/h3>\n<p>A study in 2012 states that mantra meditation could help you improve brain health with benefits, such as improved mood and well-being, reduced anxiety,<br \/>\nimproved verbal memory, and less brain fatigue.<\/p>\n<h3>What can my mantra be?<\/h3>\n<p>Your mantra can be any word, from the most common Sanskrit, \u201cSo Hum,\u201d to English phrases like \u201cI am calm\u201d if you are more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>As long as it sends out a positive message and makes you feel calm, you can choose whatever mantra.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have come up with a mantra, you can start mantra meditation by finding a quiet place, setting a timer for at least 20 minutes, and taking a couple of deep breaths.<\/p>\n<p>Use your mantra to guide your breathing and focus on it to redirect wandering thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who are struggling to meditate resort to mantra meditation to improve concentration and boost awareness. Because it can help you stay focused, mantra meditation could improve your meditation skills. A mantra is a word or phrase that you can repeat during meditation. You can use your mantra as a tool to release your mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[695],"tags":[1290,696],"class_list":["post-41278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditation","tag-mantra-meditation","tag-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}