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Yoga of Sound: Enhance Brain Function and Health With Yoga Mantras. Digg HJ: Yoga mantras are sounds that transform consciousness, enhance brain function and improve health among many other valuable and needed things.

Yoga of Sound: Enhance Brain Function and Health With Yoga Mantras

The repetitive use of them at regular intervals produces very profound and positive effects on the mind, body and spirit of an individual, moving all into greater harmony. Mantras have been used for thousands of years by yogis, mystics, seers, and adepts as one of a set of powerful tools for awakening higher faculties and the body’s innate ability to heal itself. Anyone who has worked with yoga mantras or any mantras for that matter can attest to their incredible power and very real and noticeable effects. Out of all the many things I have learned in over a decade of studying the mind-body-spirit triad and various healing modalities, mantras are one of the most profound tools I have come across and something that I enjoy and use on a daily basis.

Brain Waves During Meditation. Brain Activity During Meditation The brain is an electrochemical organ (machine) using electromagnetic energy to function.

Brain Waves During Meditation

Electrical activity emanating from the brain is displayed in the form of brainwaves. They range from the high amplitude, low frequency delta to the low amplitude, high frequency beta. Science Explores Meditation's Effect on the Brain. How Meditation May Change the Brain. Getty Images Over the December holidays, my husband went on a 10-day silent meditation retreat.

How Meditation May Change the Brain

Not my idea of fun, but he came back rejuvenated and energetic. He said the experience was so transformational that he has committed to meditating for two hours daily, one hour in the morning and one in the evening, until the end of March. He’s running an experiment to determine whether and how meditation actually improves the quality of his life.