| Chanting is an excellent and ancient way to transform | | | | forehead. As you move the sound with your |
| vibrations, energize chakras, and raise body, mind, and | | | | imagination or mind's eye, move the energy of the |
| spirit into the Presence of God. It is a chief method of | | | | body up with it, until your brain is greatly stimulated and |
| raising consciousness in Buddhism and Hinduism. | | | | the frontal lobe and forehead are tingling. Feel this |
| Gregorian chanting has seen a revival in Western | | | | happening. See it. Imagine it. Know it is happening. |
| culture. | | | | After each set of aaaaaaa, eeeeeee, ooooooo, |
| Good chanting is deep, inner sounding, not outward | | | | uuuuuuu, mmmmmmm, abide in silence long enough to |
| singing. The voice's vibrations are directed inward. It is | | | | feel the strange but wonderful yang-yin relationship of |
| done with low monotones that have a rising | | | | the sounding (yang) and the silence (yin). This helps |
| movement and a resonance that attempts to vibrate | | | | alter the consciousness and energy of the body and |
| the chakras along the kundalini pathway and move | | | | mind and move them inward and upward. |
| their energy upward. | | | | Repeat the chanting long enough to cause an altered |
| Each voice is so unique that we could make a lock on | | | | state of consciousness to occur. This usually requires |
| a door that only one voice could open. Therefore, the | | | | at least three sets of aaaaaaa, eeeeeee, ooooooo, |
| best chanting voice for your body is yours. | | | | uuuuuuu, mmmmmmm to upwards of seven or twelve |
| There are three chambers within the human body: | | | | sets. The goal is not chanting, but deep, stimulated |
| abdominal, cardio-pulmonary, and cranial. A resonant | | | | silence in which your body, mind, and spirit feel high and |
| sounding within these chambers vibrates the endocrine | | | | receptive to the Spirit of the infinite, omnipotent, |
| glands that correspond to the chakras. Changing the | | | | omniscient Presence of God. Then abide in this state |
| sounding as one progresses causes the vibration to | | | | until you are sufficiently imbued with the Presence to |
| rise up the body from the lower to the higher chakras | | | | carry it with you through the whole day. |
| through the kundalini pathway. This energizes the body, | | | | Allow oft the raising of self through the voice, through |
| because the kundalini is the life-force of the body. | | | | the music, that bespeaks of praise, as in the chant to |
| Sit comfortably with your back straight. Take a long, | | | | the celestial forces that may make for an attuning of |
| deep breath, filling the lungs completely. With slow, | | | | the inner self. 891-1 |
| deep, resonant tones direct your voice into each of | | | | The entity developed that which later became the |
| the chambers. Edgar Cayce gives an excellent chant | | | | chant which to many would drive away what was |
| for this purpose: aaaaaaa ("a" as in ah), eeeeeee ("e" | | | | called the evil eye, the evil influence. 949-12 |
| as in eat), ooooooo ("o" as in oh), uuuuuuu ("u" as in | | | | Q: Did I ever sing? A: As the priestess; ever more the |
| blue), mmmmmmm ("m" as in room). Using your mind | | | | chant than the song. 823-1 |
| and imaginative forces, direct the aaaaaaa sounding to | | | | Incant [chant] that which carries self deeper, deeper -- |
| the lower area of your torso (pelvis and navel), the | | | | to the seeing, feeling, experiencing of that image in the |
| eeeeeee sounding to your solar plexus (mid-stomach | | | | creative forces of love. Then, enter into the Holy of |
| area), the ooooooo to your heart area and on upward | | | | Holies [the third eye]. As self feels or experiences the |
| to your throat, the uuuuuuu to the base of your brain | | | | raising of this, see it disseminated through the inner eye |
| and over to the center of it, and the mmmmmmm | | | | (not the carnal eye) to that which will bring the greater |
| sound to the frontal lobe of your brain and your | | | | understanding in meeting every condition in the |
| forehead. | | | | experience of the body. Then listen to the music that is |
| Balance your breath in order to have equal amounts | | | | made as each center of thine own body responds to |
| of the sound at each of the areas of the body, leaving | | | | that new creative force. Little by little this entering in will |
| enough breath for sounding at your frontal lobe and | | | | enable self to renew all that is necessary, in Him. |