Om

Om

Investigating Oms

Like many Ashrams or yoga studios, we do some oms before and after yoga.

During meditation, we om quite a bit.

Why om at all?

First, it feels good. You are holding your breath for the length of the om. Then you take a deep breath and do it again, exhaling as you om. How relaxed are you going to be after half an hour of this? Very.

Also, “the primordial vibration om (or aum), is known as the most sacred sound in Hinduism and Buddhism. Thousands of years ago, the Vedic seers knew what modern science has only recently discovered: everything we see in the universe consists of energy vibrations – even those objects that appear solid,” says Deepak Chopra.

"The sound itself seems to calm the nervous system," says author Stephen Cope. "Like all chants, it gathers and focuses the mind, and in that state it's not vulnerable to the rising of the odd thought that will create grasping or aversion. It shifts us out of our ordinary discursive mind and into a more contemplative mode."

Peace is the byproduct, and I treasure it. Once you've experienced it, you won’t be able to see how war could exist in the world if everyone did this.

That’s how I came up with the name for this blog.