Dear Patty, I am grateful for the ease-full approach to meditation with the help of this mantra. As I practice and become more familiar with the mantra, I notice that my mind is multitasking… the mantra sweetly playing in the background like jazz at a restaurant. Meanwhile my thoughts are babbling away with their various storylines. I experimented with making the mantra more expansive, by turning up the vibration, if you will, but the mantra didn’t seem at home being huge. I wonder if you have insight into calling the mantra to center stage, while honoring its hushed and gentle essence. Thank you ❤️
Thank you for your comment and your question. It sounds like this meditation is just as it should be. I'm so grateful that you are sharing your process and your question. Thank you.
To address your observation: What you are speaking of here is a natural part of meditation. You are noticing that thoughts and mantra can be existing at the same time. Fine. Good.
You use the term "turning up the vibration" of the mantra. I recommend that you make a slightly different choice. Rather than turning the mantra up in any way at all, I recommend you take the idea of "favoring the mantra". Without resistance to the thoughts, when you realize both thoughts are there (and you are observing the background thinking) simply take your attention to the mantra.
No resistance to the background. Just a slight favoring of the mantra over the background.
The easier the better. Favoring the mantra as your choice and not gripping to it at all, allow the mantra to drift, change, disappear...whatever it does.
Whenever you realize you are no longer finding the mantra, simply bring it back in as easily as any other thought —without trying to negate anything else.
Love love love mantra meditation and softening, dissolving into collective consciousness 🙂 thank you for sharing this practice and reminding us to bring the feminine into “focus”!
Nice to know it resonates for you, Ashley. Thank you for sharing your passion for finding the receptive clarity that we have and simply need to open to. And for noting — through your use of the word "focus" — that yes, we include it all!
Thank you for asking about the mantra and the breath, Donna. It can happen — and often does — that the breath and the mantra become linked in some way. It is FINE for that to happen and it doesn't mean anything one way or another. It's just fine. It will change.
The idea is to favor the mantra — as in this case — it is a mantra meditation. Without resistance to noticing the breath whenever you do, you just take it all as it comes and return...effortlessly...to the mantra.
This is aligned with my intention of the moment to slow and go inward and the benefits showed up within the first 3 days of 10 min morning practice to be intrinsically motivated. It feels amazing to deepen relationship to self.
Patty! Thank you so much. This is so powerful and helpful. I felt you were speaking to me directly. I am not sure if you received an email from me last week in response to your email. Let me know and I can resend. I so appreciate this series. I am learning/relearning so much.
Hi Patty, I did receive that email last week (and this morning). I responded to it last week - so not sure if it found your spam folder? I look forward to reconnecting ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Dear Patty, I am grateful for the ease-full approach to meditation with the help of this mantra. As I practice and become more familiar with the mantra, I notice that my mind is multitasking… the mantra sweetly playing in the background like jazz at a restaurant. Meanwhile my thoughts are babbling away with their various storylines. I experimented with making the mantra more expansive, by turning up the vibration, if you will, but the mantra didn’t seem at home being huge. I wonder if you have insight into calling the mantra to center stage, while honoring its hushed and gentle essence. Thank you ❤️
Thank you for your comment and your question. It sounds like this meditation is just as it should be. I'm so grateful that you are sharing your process and your question. Thank you.
To address your observation: What you are speaking of here is a natural part of meditation. You are noticing that thoughts and mantra can be existing at the same time. Fine. Good.
You use the term "turning up the vibration" of the mantra. I recommend that you make a slightly different choice. Rather than turning the mantra up in any way at all, I recommend you take the idea of "favoring the mantra". Without resistance to the thoughts, when you realize both thoughts are there (and you are observing the background thinking) simply take your attention to the mantra.
No resistance to the background. Just a slight favoring of the mantra over the background.
The easier the better. Favoring the mantra as your choice and not gripping to it at all, allow the mantra to drift, change, disappear...whatever it does.
Whenever you realize you are no longer finding the mantra, simply bring it back in as easily as any other thought —without trying to negate anything else.
I hope this is helpful! Let me know how it goes.
Love love love mantra meditation and softening, dissolving into collective consciousness 🙂 thank you for sharing this practice and reminding us to bring the feminine into “focus”!
Nice to know it resonates for you, Ashley. Thank you for sharing your passion for finding the receptive clarity that we have and simply need to open to. And for noting — through your use of the word "focus" — that yes, we include it all!
Thank you for asking about the mantra and the breath, Donna. It can happen — and often does — that the breath and the mantra become linked in some way. It is FINE for that to happen and it doesn't mean anything one way or another. It's just fine. It will change.
The idea is to favor the mantra — as in this case — it is a mantra meditation. Without resistance to noticing the breath whenever you do, you just take it all as it comes and return...effortlessly...to the mantra.
Hi Patty…please talk about the mantra and the breath
Thank you, it was so easy I forgot the meditation was guided lol
This is aligned with my intention of the moment to slow and go inward and the benefits showed up within the first 3 days of 10 min morning practice to be intrinsically motivated. It feels amazing to deepen relationship to self.
Thank you
That's beautiful, Melissa! Thank you for sharing that. It mean a lot to me to hear that. ❤️
Ha ha! That sounds easy to me...and easy is good. Nice to see you here on substack, Melissa. I hope you and the twins are very, very well. 💖💖💖
Patty! Thank you so much. This is so powerful and helpful. I felt you were speaking to me directly. I am not sure if you received an email from me last week in response to your email. Let me know and I can resend. I so appreciate this series. I am learning/relearning so much.
Hi Haleya, I did get your message and responded via email. Perhaps the email went into your promotions?
Anyway I just resent it. Let me know if you still have not received it. It’s great to be hearing from you!
Hi Patty, I did receive that email last week (and this morning). I responded to it last week - so not sure if it found your spam folder? I look forward to reconnecting ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Oh my gosh!!!
I am going to check further!!!