Weekly challenge - Mantra - Feb 25 - Mar 3 - 2019
Personal Mantra. A personal mantra is an affirmation to motivate and inspire you to be your best self. Its purpose is to provide motivation and encouragement to you when you need to focus your mind to achieve a goal. Mantras have been utilized around the world for thousands of years.
A mantra is usually any repeated word or phrase, but it can also refer more specifically to a word repeated in meditation. Mantra comes from a Sanskrit word meaning a sacred message or text, charm, spell, counsel.
What is someone's mantra? A sound, word, or phrase that is repeated by someone who is meditating. Or a word or phrase that is repeated often or that expresses someone's basic beliefs. a businessman whose mantra is bigger is better.
The Purpose of Mantra. Mantra traditionally has two purposes, which can be called worldly and spiritual. We usually think of mantra solely as an instrument of self-transformation.
Here is a link that has some mantras that you can try.
Questions:
Have you ever tried doing a mantra?
What is a mantra that you might like to start trying?
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@DanaMH I like the mantra "What did I do right?" It helps me focus on the positive growing aspects of life. It opens up new possibilities to me.
Another one I like is "We will get through this." So instead of adding fuel to the fire of how bad things are I can start using my energies to focus on how I can get through this.
@soulsings
I really like those mantras because a lot of us can use those. Thanks for sharing those with us.
I've never tried a mantra, but i think i's like to try it. "Everything will be alright" resonates with me.
@MissPen that sounds like a wonderful place to start.
I've never been all that big on quotes, mantras or other similar things. I did find though with my IV training "I've got this" is something that I would use.
@AffyAvo that sounds like a great catch phrase to reassure yourself.
Theres a really nice mantra on one of the 7 Cups audio meditations. Something like I am calm and everything is well. I hope I find it again so I can write it down.
@Zengrl I wonder if @Soulsings knows which one it might be so tagging them to find out if they do.
@DanaMH I love using mantras, one I use frequently is "you are enough,and you got this"
@Ladyofthesea458
That is a great one. I agree with that and we all can use that one.
@DanaMH
Dana, my mantra was I CAN but at the moment I am using
I am strong - confident and powerful.
That is what I am telling myself every single morning along with tapping and every time a challenge comes up I will repeat it for a while, became an automatic though now.
@amiablePeace77
That is so great and yes tapping does help a lot. I learned about tapping a couple of years ago.
In the last wee or so
@Lauren63
I like that one about taking a break since some of us don't think that sometimes. It is hard. Scheduling down time is a great idea.
@weareokay220
That is a really good one especially for those that have panic attacks or some that have self doubt.
@Selfawareness17
That is true for some folks. Thanks for sharing.
No problem @DanaMH
@DanaMH
Not quite a mantra, but I am working in a DBT for Eating Disorder module, and I've got this on my phone where I can see it:
"I need to learn to do this. What I've been doing is not working."
@MsBrownieBee
That is a good one which I have been doing that one for a while for a different topic.
