Book Annotation: An
accessible and practical guide to the ancient practice of healing
chants.
Jacket Description/Back: Mantras, or simple
chants, are short phrases packed with energy and intention --
specifically designed to generate powerful sound waves that promote
healing, insight, creativity, and spiritual growth. Healing Mantras
is the practical, how-to guide that makes the strengths and benefits
of mantras available to everyone. The transformative power of sound
has been passed down to the present from the sages of India, the
classical scientists of ancient Greece, and the medieval monks of
Europe. Even though the science and discipline of chanting and
formal prayer are practiced in every religion around the world, this
is the first time that ancient Sanskrit mantras have been explained
and adapted to Western needs.
One of the few Western experts in Hindu and Buddhist mantras,
Thomas Ashley-Farrand has practiced mantra-based spiritual
disciplines for twenty-five years. In this illuminating book, he
explains how and why mantras work and shows how to use them for
everything from controlling habits to overcoming fear, from curing
specific ailments to finding inner peace, from gaining wisdom to
increasing mental clarity. In each of the more than fifty mantras,
all translated from the original Sanskrit, Ashley-Farrand unlocks
the power of every word, explains its appropriate application, and
tells you how to pronounce it in easy-to-follow phonetic symbols.
These mantras can be repeated aloud or in silence and can be used
by people of any religion or spiritual practice as you wash dishes,
as you drive on the freeway, as you meditate, or as you cook. Sound
can help and sound can heal, and Healing Mantras now makes this
sound medicine available to everyone.
Publisher Marketing: The
transformative power of sound has been passed down to the present
from the sages of India, the classical scientists of ancient Greece,
and the medieval monks of Europe. Mantras, sounds, and chants have
inspired, comforted, and mended the lives of individuals, religious
orders, and even entire cultures. In Healing Mantras,
Ashley-Farrand provides mantras for everything from controlling
habits to overcoming fear, from curing specific ailments to finding
inner peace. Completely accessible, the mantras are written out
phonetically, with detailed advice on how and when to chant them.
These mantras can be repeated aloud or in silence and can be used by
people of any religion or spiritual practice, as you wash dishes,
as you drive on the freeway, as you meditate, or as you cook. Sound
can help, and sound can heal, and Healing Mantras now makes this
sound medicine available to everyone.
Contributor Bio: Thomas
Ashley-Farrand:
Ashley-Farrand has practiced mantra-based
spiritual disciplines for 23 years. He teaches at Chaffee College in
Ontario, California.