Mantras

Following is an explanation of the power of mantras by the poet, Sky:

As one cultivates grace, one finds that grace becomes, more and more, an ongoing and intimate experience with one's every breath, gesture, thought.  It may sing itself so thoroughly into the music of one's life, so as to weave itself into one's life, a harmonious thread in the cosmic tapestry.  Every moment experienced as an ongoing ritual, in concert with the one religion of infinite sentience itself.

The way to remember spiritual aspirations is through a deliberately constructed, poetically authentic, and sensitively emotive mantra.

Repeat your mantra throughout the day.  Daily review to revise your mantras, for greater meaning, to reflect your new focus, aspiration and progress.

When one is alone and repeats a mantra, that mantra stimulates a particular feeling state vis a vis oneself. So, if I say, "I'm great," to myself, I will stimulate a particular way of treating myself, on a very deeply unconscious level. The same works with negative attributions.

So, what I'm finding is that when I say, "I am beautiful compassion," I really do treat myself with beautiful compassion, just by invoking this. So, yes, it's very important that we NOT use any negative attributions vis a vis ourselves.

I'm also finding that there's a part of me that says, "you, 'beautiful compassion'?, what makes you think that?" But the answer to that patronizing self questioning is, "I'm only referring to my desired or most desirable relationship to myself. I don't have to prove anything to anyone other than myself because I'm not, right now, at this moment, in a relationship to anyone other than myself. I am simply reminding myself that I have the opportunity to invoke and awaken an aspect of myself."

So, this works for me. I hope that you might want to try it, if you haven't already, and that it might work for you.