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"Meditation Mantras Podcast - Ancient Chants from India by Mahakatha" by Mahakatha is an immersive and enlightening journey through the ancient chants of India. The podcast delves into the rich history and origin story of these powerful mantras, which have been used for centuries to promote sound healing and personal transformation.
Each episode features a different mantra, such as Shiva mantras, Buddha mantras, Krishna mantras, and devi mantras, with an in-depth exploration of the lyrics and meaning behind each one.
The host, Mahakatha, is an expert in the field, and provides valuable insights and guidance on how to incorporate these mantras into your own meditation practice.
Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to the world of meditation and mantras, this podcast offers a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to deepen your understanding. Additionally, it will enhance your spiritual journey. Discover the ancient wisdom and transformative power of these sacred chants from India through the "Meditation Mantras Podcast" by Mahakatha.
Do you still have nightmares? Sometimes.
Have you tried to find out what nightmares
mean? If you have, I'm sure you
found pretty interesting and pretty diverse answers
to your question. And even though we may never fully
scientifically understand what causes these
nightmares, this little perspective
that I'm about to share with you in today's episode might
actually help you sleep better.
Namaste and welcome to yet another brand new
episode of the Mahakatha's Meditation Mantras
podcast. I'm your host, Preeti, and today we are
talking about sleep and especially
about nightmares and how we can try
to overcome them. My partner and I almost
had a laugh the other day when, after
an online medical consultation, the doctor
sent us a prescription and included in one of his notes,
you know, the part where they write any lifestyle changes that
they want you to add. He wrote, do
not consume caffeine after 06:00 p.m.. Make sure that you're staying
hydrated throughout the day. And the last point
in that note section said, do not
stress. Now, despite the good
intentions of the doctor, it was quite a
laughable note because in this day and age, that's quite an
unrealistic goal to set for yourself. It's not
so much as you should not stress.
Rather, you should be aware of when you
are stressing and you should educate
yourself on how to deal with that stress,
because there's a very sneaky quality to stress. You
see, it's not just active in that moment
where we are amidst all that pressure. And there are high
stakes. The stress is not just active in that
particular moment, but it stays
dormant long after that situation
is over, or even worse, long before
that situation even occurs. And the other reason
why I call stress being sneaky is that if we
experience stress in one area of our lives over
time without us even realizing that stress
will seep into leak into other areas of
our lives. For example, if we are having
financial stress, then guess what?
Over a period of days or weeks, it's going to find its
way into our relationship or our
career or even our health or our
sleeping patterns. So you see, stress can be
a very complicated thing to completely get rid
of unless we are addressing the root
cause of that stress. Now, like I said,
stress is one of the factors that
affects our sleep quality and to a certain
extent is the reason why we have these
nightmares that I was talking about.
Understanding nightmares and understanding stress
and their correlation becomes easier if you can
visualize your inner
child. So imagine
you and your inner child residing somewhere within you,
let's say at the center of your heart throughout the
day. As you go through every moment, every experience,
every situation, you are awake and
active and so is your inner child. Your inner
child is awake and active with you
when you are happy, when there is an occasion that
brings you joy. When there is a moment or a life experience
that brings you genuine happiness, your
inner child is genuinely happy.
Similarly, when there is stress, if you are undergoing
terrible stress, your inner child is also with you
in undergoing that terrible stress. And
now coming to when you are asleep,
you are in deep sleep. In a physical
sense, you have ended your day. You
have freshened up, changed your clothes, gotten ready for
bed and your body is
ready to relax. It is already
in natural deep sleep.
However, if you drift into a nightmare,
then it was only you who were asleep.
Your inner child was up and something
is troubling it. Let me say
that again. If you are asleep and you
drift into a nightmare, then that inner child
at your heart center is up and something
is on its mind. The perfect kind of
sleep can be visualized as when you and your
inner child are both in deep natural sleep.
However, your inner child being so sensitive, so
young, so receptive and so absorbing like a
little sponge, still has that
residual stress, that residual
pressure, that residual worry that is keeping it
up while you are physically asleep.
When you look at a nightmare in this sense
it becomes easier to understand what
really is going on and it becomes easier to try and do
something about it. And so the next time you
feel you are drifting into a nightmare or you suddenly
wake up with a sense of shock or horror
having had a nightmare about the same thing all over again,
sit up in bed, place your palms on your
heart and talk to your inner child.
That inner child needs to be soothed.
That inner child needs to be reassured
and needs to be told, listen, you did a
great, wonderful job today. You did the best
you could in every experience, every moment, every
situation that you came across.
And now my dear inner child, it
is safe for you to rest within me
for a while. You are not going to miss out on
anything. Your problems are not going to
worsen. And tomorrow you will have fresh new
ideas and inspiration and things will be
at least a little bit better.
So now there's nothing else for you to
do dear inner child, other than rest.
So come rest with me.
Vishramam
Kuru
vishramam
kuru
vishramam
kuru
vishramamkuru please
rest. Talk to your inner
child in this way. Take a few deep breaths
and surely enough this time when you
fall asleep, you are more likely
to fall into a dreamless deep
state of restful sleep.
Now many of us might find it difficult to talk to our
inner child in this way. Or the shock and horror
or the fear of a nightmare may be too
compelling for us to think about
our inner child. And for this purpose,
one wonderful tool that can help you
is the soothing sound of an Ancient
Mantra. Today's episode, I'm introducing to you one
of the most soothing mantras that will help you
if you are generally afraid of nightmares or if you tend to
have the same nightmares over and over again every
night. This mantra is a way
of soothing your inner child and drifting
into a state of deep sleep.
The mantra is called the Ramaskandham
Hanumantam mantra. This
mantra is an invocation of Lord
Hanuman, who is known as the pillar of
strength and grace, as well as
a symbol of humility, calmness and
patience. And as this mantra
invokes Lord Hanuman, it
allows us to channel all that grace and all that calmness and all
that patience while talking to our inner
child and calming it down. Several
of our listeners have made this mantra a part of their
nighttime routine. And I'm just going to read you two of the
most beautiful comments from the YouTube thread.
The first one says this mantra is
magical. I play this every night. My two year
old kid used to get up and cry in the middle of the night. From
the day I have been playing this, we both have peaceful
sleep. Wonderful. I'm really happy
that this is helping not just our listeners, but many of
their little babies as well. The second
one says I find it hard to put in words as to how I
really feel after listening to this mantra. I've been having very
disturbed sleep, going through a very rough patch emotionally
and physically. After three nights of listening to
this soothing and powerful mantra, I fall asleep while
it's still playing. My warmest gratitude to the whole
team for giving this precious opportunity to heal
ourselves, be it mentally,
emotionally, physically or spiritually.
I feel blessed. Thank you
so much, dear listener. This is exactly the kind
of experience that this mantra is intended to give our
listeners. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you dear listeners, for sharing your wonderful experiences.
Keep them coming. And if you as well would like
to embrace this mantra and try it out as a
part of your nighttime routine, then you can now avail
this mantra at a 30% discount by using
the coupon code that is mentioned in the description. This
is an exclusive discount available only to
listeners of the podcast like yourself. So
go ahead, gift yourself this mantra and observe the
difference it creates in your sleep patterns, in the
quality of your sleep and in the occurrence of
nightmares and dreams. And always
remember to use your time with this mantra to
talk to your inner child. That's it for this
episode. I hope you enjoyed this episode and that it'll help
you. And you know I will be back soon with a brand new
episode, a brand new topic that relates to all of
us. Until then, keep chanting, keep
listening and stay blessed.