Trouble Sleeping? Use These Chants

 

                                    Picture is from an email so the original source is unknown.

Clients and friends tell me that they find it difficult to sleep at night between Christmas and New Year and even into January.  Part of the reason may be that the Sun is still low in the sky and the days are shorter than we would like.  Part of the reason may be too that as we move into the next year, we are unsettled.  Meditation and chanting can help improve sleep.

Most people think that chanting is part of meditating and that it needs to be done in an upright, lotus position as shown in the picture above.  That is simply not true.  

Yes, chants are used in meditation.  Fact, chants are meditation and can be done anywhere.  That is why, when I am having trouble sleeping, and say one, two or all of the chants below until I fall deeply into sleep.

My favorite chant is "The Loving Kindness" chant.  The version that I learned goes like this...

May I be filled with loving kindness.  May I be well.

May I be peaceful and at ease.  May I be happy.

May you  be filled with loving kindness.  May you be well.

May you be peaceful and at ease.  May you be happy.

May we  be filled with loving kindness.  May we be well.

May we be peaceful and at ease.  May we be happy.

 The chant that I learned back in the nineties is the OM chant.  "Om Mani Padme Hum".  I can say this chant for about twenty minutes before I am asleep.  You can look up the meaning of this chant.  However, the Dalai Lama says that this chant will...

“transform your impure body, speech and mind into the pure body, speech and mind of a Buddha.”

The third chant or mantra that I use is the...Ra Ma Da Sa, Sa Say So Hung chant.  Again, you can look up the meaning.  This is a very sacred healing chant that I learned in 2003 and that I use to help heal aches and pains that keep me from sleeping.

Please try these mantras when you can not sleep and please post what happened when you used them.

Many blessings,

Lightstationwisdom@gmail.com

Merry Christmas 2022

 

 

Love starts from your house, to your neighborhood, to your community, to your nation and to the whole world. Spread love to all those you meet. Let everyone feel the Universal love that raises us all. Merry Christmas to you!

To all of you that have been reading my blog and to those of you that send me emails and post comments, “Thank you!”  Thank you for taking time to acknowledge that the writing resonates with you.   

Love, light, and laughter,

Judy

Christmas Eve with Spirit Animal - Cardinal

                              

“This year, work to be like Cardinal. Here is Cardinal's message.

• Eat only those foods that agree with you, and that provide you with the nourishment that you need to keep your body healthy.
• Feed someone else.  Cardinal’s feed one another when they are tired, sick, or mating.  In the presenting of food, we show our worth.
• Go to places that you have never been before.  Be adventuresome.  This is the true calling of all beings, to go and see new things.  Staying in one place, with the familiar, is a form of fear.
• Take up a physical activity – mountain climbing or rock climbing, walking, running, swimming, hiking (in the mountains), biking, kayaking, or playing some sport.  Cardinal stays fit by flying and hopping through the trees. Physical health gives you freedom.
• Find a class that interests you, and take it, even if it is outside your normal range of what people think you are about.  Cardinal has always watched other birds and learned from them, and than passed this on to their flock.
• Go outside and listen – not with a music thing in your ears.  Listen to the sounds of all of us birds, and of all of Nature.  This will help you grow and to feel the beat of life that is growing louder in Mother Earth.  It will help you find balance.

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve.

Blessings,

Judy