Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing with Study Guide: Learn Sound Affirmations for Spiritual Growth, Creativity, and Healing

Thomas Ashley-Farrand

ISBN 10: 1564557359 ISBN 13: 9781564557353

Publisher: Sounds True, 1999

Synopsis

Imagine uttering a simple pattern of sacred sounds and discovering that they promote physical healing, magnify the powers of the mind, and even attract abundance into our lives. Extraordinary? Yes. Yet this is precisely what happened to the yogis of India when they first created the science of mantras, or sacred sound formulas, over 4,000 years ago. Now, with Thomas Ashley-Farrand's Healing Mantras, you have access to 45 of these authentic chants to dispel fear, remove hidden obstacles, and attract abundance in every arena of life from vocational and financial concerns to intimate relationships and artistic pursuits.Thomas Ashley-Farrand demonstrates how to pronounce each of these powerful formulas with perfect precision, which is a key to their effectiveness. During a lunch break, at home, or while driving, Healing Mantras is an affordable and practical way to begin using this ancient science of sound anywhere and anytime. Includes a comprehensive, 23-page study guide on the theory and application of mantra practice.

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From the Back Cover

Mantras, or simple chants, are short phrases packed with energy and intention -- specifically designed to generate powerful sound waves that promote healing, insight, creativity, and spiritual growth. Healing Mantras is the practical, how-to guide that makes the strengths and benefits of mantras available to everyone. The transformative power of sound has been passed down to the present from the sages of India, the classical scientists of ancient Greece, and the medieval monks of Europe. Even though the science and discipline of chanting and formal prayer are practiced in every religion around the world, this is the first time that ancient Sanskrit mantras have been explained and adapted to Western needs.

One of the few Western experts in Hindu and Buddhist mantras, Thomas Ashley-Farrand has practiced mantra-based spiritual disciplines for twenty-five years. In this illuminating book, he explains how and why mantras work and shows how to use them for everything from controlling habits to overcoming fear, from curing specific ailments to finding inner peace, from gaining wisdom to increasing mental clarity. In each of the more than fifty mantras, all translated from the original Sanskrit, Ashley-Farrand unlocks the power of every word, explains its appropriate application, and tells you how to pronounce it in easy-to-follow phonetic symbols.

These mantras can be repeated aloud or in silence and can be used by people of any religion or spiritual practice "as you wash dishes, as you drive on the freeway, as you meditate, or as you cook". Sound can help and sound can heal, and Healing Mantras now makes this sound medicine available to everyone.

About the Author

Thomas Ashley-Ferrand

Thomas Ashley-Farrand (1940 - 2010)

Thomas Ashley-Farrand was one of the West s foremost authorities of Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras. He was recognized for his flawless mastery of mantra practice by swamis, pundits, and shastris across India, and gathered more than 8,000 transliterated mantras the most comprehensive body of these sacred sound syllables in the English language. He received initiations and blessings from a number of prominent spiritual teachers, including H.H. the Dalai Lama. His guru was Sadguru Sant Keshavadas of Bangalore, India, and he also followed Guru Mata, Sant Keshavadas widow, to whom he transferred spiritual authority on the banks of the Ganges before his passing. In addition, Thomas Ashley-Farrand was an expert in the practice of Vedic fire and water rituals. His published works include "Mantra Meditation, Healing Mantras, Mantra Meditation for Creating Abundance, " and more."

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1564557359
• ISBN 13: 9781564557353
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English