Top 10 Benefits of Chanting Om

Om mantra is the monarch of all mantras. The benefits of chanting ‘Om’ had been discovered by the ancient sages of India thousands of years ago. The magical mantra is a symbol of purity and resonates with spiritual powers. It is believed that continuous chanting of ‘Om’ leads to profound enlightenment apart from various health benefits. 

Speaking of health benefits, this mantra encourages good mental and physical health. You do not need to use your tongue while chanting this mantra. The whole body experiences vibrations on reciting of this pious mantra. After researching on the various benefits of chanting Om, a special ‘Om Therapy’ has been evolved, which claims to cure various diseases. 

Spiritually speaking, the word ‘Om’, also spelt as ‘Aum’, represents the threefold division of time, i.e., dreaming state, waking state and deep sleep. Ancient sages called ‘Om’ as the sound of creation. It also represents God, Universal Consciousness or the Supreme Source. On chanting this mantra, one cultivates blissful, strong and energetic vibrations inside their body and also in their aura. 

Here are the various Health Benefits of Chanting Om:

1. Reduces Stress and Anxiety

Chanting Om has been associated with reducing stress according to a recent medical report. It immensely helps in reducing stress levels, anxiety and tension. Regular chanting of this mantra calms your mind and makes you feel peaceful from within. A person who chants Om regularly feels more serene and tranquil from within. Many people chant this mantra while meditation. The chanting induces a relaxing response and so whenever you feel butterflies in your stomach, this mantra can help you calm your anxiety levels. 

2. Helps to Improve Concentration

Chanting Om also helps to improve concentration. While chanting the mantra you detach yourself from the world and put all your worries and tensions aside. Regular Om chanting helps your mind become more focused. With more practice, you become more attentive in your daily tasks. 

3. Helps to Rejuvenate you

In the stressful lives of today, tensions and anxiety have become a regular part of life. This stress also releases a lot of toxins inside the body which lead to harmful physical and mental diseases. Chanting ‘Om’ removes the possibilities of such diseases as it reduces your stress and anxiety level. After chanting this mantra for 10 to 15 minutes every day, you will find yourself rejuvenated and relaxed. It also makes you happy and pacifies our tensed heart.  Those who suffer from mood swings find chanting of this mantra very pacifying. It reduces their mood swings and also boosts their performance. 

4. Chanting Om gives Strength to your Spinal Cord

On chanting this mantra, one can give a substantial impact on their spinal cords. The vibrations generated on chanting help to improve the efficiency of your spinal cord. When you chant the first part of Om with the sound ‘aaa’, a vibration is generated in the abdomen that helps you improve the efficiency of your spinal cord. The last sound ‘uuu’ benefits the thyroid gland. While chanting Om, you also practice sitting with your back straight and slowly get into the habit of sitting in the right posture. 

5. Om mantra helps to detox your body

Chanting ‘Om’ is a type of meditation. Regularly chanting this mantra helps to detox your body and improve blood circulation. When you chant Om, you breathe deeply and when you do so, the body gets rid of toxins. Chanting Om regularly also restores your youthfulness and sexual libido. 

6. Regulates Heart and Digestive System Functioning

Chanting Om regulates blood flow to various parts of the body. The improved blood flow helps to control blood pressure and also reduces risk of hypertension. Ideally, while chanting Om, a person disconnects from the outer world and only focuses on deep breathing, which in turn, normalizes heart beat and respiration. Regular chanting of this mantra also improves your sleep and the functioning of your digestive system. Regular chanting of Om helps to cure symptoms of irregular bowel syndrome and also improves your gut health.

Increased quantity of nitric oxide in the body also helps you live a long life. Chanting Om in a yoga posture in the early mornings is an ideal way to increase nitric oxide in the body. This increased supply relaxes the blood vessels by causing vasodilatation. Both, mind and body get relaxed by chanting ‘Om’.

7. Improves your Sleep

Often, stress and hectic lifestyles play a toll on your sleep. Late nights of working and staying up awake until late in the night disturb your sleeping cycle. Chanting Om regularly, helps you fall asleep quickly and also ensures that you get a sound and restful sleep.

8. Stabilizes your Emotions

If you find yourself emotionally unstable and very vulnerable, regular chanting of Om can help you control your emotions. You will be able to control our anger, frustrations and worry, which impact your personal and professional life both. Chanting Om helps you becomes emotionally stronger.

9. Reduces Negativity and Improves Reasoning Ability

Often you tend to make unreasonable decisions due to a disturbed state of mind. Chanting Om helps you think straight and in an optimistic manner. It will help you stay positive in then most dire circumstances. This magical mantra when chanted regularly, also helps you to make the right decisions and improves your reasoning ability. 

10. Om helps in Increasing Lung Functions

Om is not only a word evolved out of our mythological past, but it has amazing therapeutic benefits. When you chant Om, you engage in voluntary prolongation of expiration, which stretches the respiratory muscles to their full extent. Lungs can therefore work to their maximal ventilator capacity. Chanting Om thus, helps you use your diaphragmatic and abdominal muscles more efficiently. 

So there are immense health benefits of ‘Om’ chanting. For best results, begin chanting this mantra in the early mornings during sunrise out in the open for maximum benefits. Keep your back straight and ensure peace around you for maximum concentration.

For more interesting articles on mindfulness and de-stressing keep reading Indian Fitness Mantra.