Chanting is the spiritual practice of repeating a word, a sound, a phrase or an entire poem, song, or verse. Chanting is a practice that many of the worlds spiritual and religious traditions uphold.
There are many purposes to a chanting practice. Depending on what the tradition is or what the actual practice is, will have a relation to what the actual purpose of the chanting practice.
One thing that chanting does facilitate for all the traditions, is that of concentration.
All of your attention is focused on the chanting of that mantra or word. Directed into that mantra is all your energy and your emotions. The sound you produce is the mantra or chant. If your mind naturally does wander as you start your chanting practice, it has to wander back in order to do the chanting itself.
All of this helps to develop concentration. This is called “one pointed concentration” in the Vedic and Yogic traditions of India.
But what exactly is the purpose of developing concentration?
Having the ability to concentrate the mind provides numerous benefits. There are the obvious benefits that can be applied to everyday life.
A capacity to stay focused. A capacity to remain with the task at hand and finish it. The ability to develop your memory and not forget.
New neural connections in the brain are created when you practice chanting on an ongoing basis. This is laying down new neural pathways of concentration.
Today there is the huge rise in attention related disorders such as ADD. The human mind is becoming a mess. The ability to concentrate, focus, remember and retain information is becoming a lost art.
This situation is not assisted with the information overload that we consume as our diet and the various media we choose to surround ourselves with such as the TV, DVDs, film, mobiles etc etc.
The brain is helped and concentration is developed with a chanting practice. Once this concentration is developed, it is naturally and can be consciously integrated into your life to assist you in performing all the tasks you need to do that require focus and concentration. All this from a chanting practice!
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