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a sound looped until your brain forgets to argue with it
means A word, sound, or phrase repeated to aid concentration in meditation, or more loosely, any saying one returns to again and again as a guiding principle.
from Straight from Sanskrit mantra, a sacred utterance, built from the root man- 'to think' (a distant cousin of our 'mind') plus the suffix -tra, which marks an instrument or tool — so a mantra is literally a 'tool for thinking,' a device the mind uses on itself. It rode into English through the study of Hindu and Buddhist texts and only later relaxed into corporate slogans and self-help refrains.
- origin
- Sanskrit for instrument of thought
- oldest hit
- the Gayatri mantra is over 3,000 years old
- the famous one
- om is technically three sounds: a-u-m
- science
- repetition measurably slows breath and heart rate
- prayer beads
- mala strings hold exactly 108 counts
om mani padme hum — sanskrit mantra chanted by millions of buddhists and hindus for over 1,000 years, central to tibetan buddhism
gayatri mantra — ancient hindu mantra from the rigveda (1500 bce), recited daily by millions of hindus during meditation
so hum — sanskrit mantra meaning 'i am that,' used in vedantic meditation and popularized in the west by deepak chopra