Disease and Chanting

Disease and Chanting

Body (Disease)

Breath Chanting

How it works

• According to a research done at the Cleveland University, USA, the rhythmic tones involved in chanting create a melodious effect in the body called the Neuro-linguistic effect [NLE]

• When we know the meaning of the mantra we are reciting, it creates a Psycholinguistic effect [PLE] on the body.

• The NLE and the PLE effects are by-products of the production and spreading of curative chemicals in the brain. The research concludes that this is the real reason why chanting provokes curative effects in us.

How it works

• Each tone vibrates the bones, muscles and fluids of the chanter. The elongation of the vowel sound is remarkably healing to the brain and the body.

• Brainwaves begin to balance after three or four minutes, and the muscle and skin temperature increases.

• The ancients intuitively knew that the balancing of the body, heart and mind through the voice is a direct path to healing and higher consciousness.

Disease and Chanting

• Chanting simply means singing [rhythmic speaking] certain sounds or words.

• Group resonanceFrom a scientific point of view, the true power of coming together as a group stems from a collective resonance effect. Just as brain-wave entrainment can occur between two individuals, it can also be established between group members chanting together. The electrical activity of each individual in the group begins to resonate on a common synchronized wavelength and in phase - a choir perfectly in tune. Like a coherent group of electrons that begins to vibrate as one giant electron, the group creates a resonance that magnifies the individual effect.

Chaos and Coherence

Research shows that in states of stress, anxiety and depression or anger, the natural variation in cardiac rhythm becomes weak and chaotic. In states of well being, compassion, gratitude and when attention is centered on the breathing, this variability is greater and becomes coherent. The subject’s breathing of 6 breaths per minute or less, also produces coherence with rhythms of other autonomous physiological functions, triggering self-healing capacity of the body.

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Coherence• According to research, when we repeat mantra or prayer we

automatically adjust our breath to 6 or less breaths per minute. This frequency happens to be the natural rhythm of fluctuations of other biological functions (heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow to the brain). The result of this synchronization is that the rhythm of each function resonates in coherence with the other autonomous physiological functions, mutually reinforcing each other.

• This coherence produced health benefits: – better functioning of immune system, – reduction of inflammation, – better regulation of blood sugar levels

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Lack of Coherence

• Lack of coherence increases with age and is linked to:– High blood pressure– Cardiac insufficiency– Complication from diabetes– Cancer

Fortunately, the balance in biological functions responds very well to breathing and concentration

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Cancer and Chanting

• As we create repetitive sound, we create sounds at certain frequency

• It has been documented that the frequencies of chanted prayer are positively impacting our bodies on cellular and organ levels

• Cells and organs of the body resonate to frequencies of the chant, thus being organized and harmonized throughout our body

• Another (dr.M. Emoto) theory postulates that water takes on the resonance of the energy directed towards it– Our bodies are made of approx. 70% of water– Chanting mantra or prayer changes molecular structure of the water

of the body and brings about the healing process

Cancer and Chanting

• “When you sing, you pray twice”— St. Augustine

• Research done by Alfred Tomatis of the French Academy of Science and Medicine found that chanting sounds have a therapeutic effect on the body. – it soothes all our bodily systems – it activates the body’s natural healing process – it also plays a part in reversing heart disease

Benefits of Chanting

• Relaxes the body and alleviates the stress• Helps to manage the mind – the mind becomes silent and

all the negative and persistent thoughts are stopped or easily replaced by positive ones

• Regulates and balances all body systems:– Strengthens the immune system (to fight against disease)– Reduces inflammation (which causes the disease)– Lowers the blood pressure– Regulates the level of sugar in blood

• If done in a group, the effects are multiplied by the synchronicity of the collective brains