Self-Embodiment Through Chanting
I will continue on the topic of chanting… but before diving ahead, I first want to pause and remind us of the three major stressors for most people:
relationships
money and/or work (career)
health
But if you take a closer look, you’ll see that these three stressors all echo the same theme:
💚 Relationships. 💚 Relationships. 💚 Relationships. Our relationships with others. Our relationship with our work. Our relationship with our body, our health… And, perhaps most importantly, our relationship with ourselves.
So in the vast web of relationships, the intricate dance between the inner and the outer, I have learnt something invaluable:
Chanting is not just a practice… it is an act of self-embodiment.
Pausing here to allow the above statement to sink in.
When we chant, we are not just making sound - we are cleaning house, making more room for our soul, grounding it, welcoming it, allowing it to express itself fully. For it is you and you are it! Each breath, each vibration, each sacred syllable aligns us more precisely with our true identity - the essence of who we really are beneath all the noise.
And it is through this aligning to Self, that we begin to soften the stressors of life. We no longer get lost in the tangle of relationships, because we start relating from a place of wholeness. We begin to shine through them, rather than being shaped by them.
In our truest embodiment, even the most tangled webs of relationships begin to transform - because we are transformed. Relationships are two-way and in all cases your relationships are a reflection of who you are (the many sides of you).
So chant.
Not to escape life…
…but to step more fully into it.
