How to Pick a Meditation Mantra
Mantra is a focal point of meditation that can be given to you by your teacher or else you can choose your own mantra. It can be a word, a candle or anything else that you can focus on during the meditation process. If you are unable to choose a mantra and your teacher has not assigned you any specific focal point, you can search about in online, read books or any other prescriptive material, and this can help you decide your mantra. You can try more than one mantras and stick to the one that works for your effectively.
Instructions
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The best way is to ask your teacher to give you a mantra, because they are a learned and experienced person and can help you choose a right focal tool. Generally, a teacher can assign different mantras to all students but it does not have to be a necessary condition. Even all students can use the same focal point in their individual meditation session. Be assured the mantra is not something that more than one students are required to focus on it at the same place, since meditation is an individual process.
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If your teacher asks you to choose your own mantra, you can pick any focal point for the meditation process. It can be a candle or any other source of light. However, the focal point should cover the minimum area, where you can focus, and in case of light, if it is spread to a wider place, you cannot concentrate or focus on it. It is not a right mantra for you.
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If you are somehow unable to decide about a focal point during the meditation process, you can do some search online. You can also seek advice from a senior meditation student or your colleagues, or even from a person who is into meditation for some time. In this age of Internet, you can find more than one online resources that can help you pick mantra for your meditation.
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You can also read books or any other printed material on the process of mantra selection. It might also help you to decide which mantra can work more effectively for you to increase your focus during the meditation process. Also, you might get some other tips about how you can make most of your focus process during meditation. Generally, there is a list of more than one mantras, including recommendation which mantra can work more effective and in what conditions.
