Chant As Though Your Heart Depends on It

Leading Yoga recording artists, Deva Premal & Miten, offer ancient mantra music and online tips to ease the stress of modern life (and traffic jams).

[ClickPress, Mon Jan 15 2007] Doctors at Harvard University recently found that just one bout with anger can increase the risk for heart attack within two hours for those prone to irregular heart rhythms.

Anger triggers an adrenaline surge, which increases blood pressure and heart rate; while potentially disrupting heart rhythms, and activating platelets that can cause blood clots. The researchers recommend behavioral strategies, including mindfulness practices, to help people keep their cool and protect their heart. For many, that chill factor comes in the unusual form of chanting and listening to ancient mantras.

“I started listening to mantra music on my daily commute,” says Virginia, a self-described, high strung real estate executive, in her fifties. “The music helps me relax and release the frustrations of my work day and rush hour traffic.”

With an estimated 12% of Americans practicing some form of yoga, growing numbers have found that singing mantras, either aloud or silently, is helpful in stilling the mind, improving memory and diffusing stress. “We get e-mails all the time from people sharing how listening to this music calms them, often mentioning road rage and attention deficit disorder,” says Deva Premal, of the performing duo Deva Premal & Miten, the best-known mantra musicians, who count His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Cher and Edward James Olmos among their fans.

“I’m most touched when people tell us that listening to our music brings a sense of the sacred into their daily lives and helps them through life’s biggest transitions."

The duo has been singing mantras with audiences around the world since 1991. A police officer who listens in her patrol car, a daughter assisting her dying father, a business executive in spiritual crisis, new parents experiencing their baby's birth, and a wild kitten with strangely tamed behavior, are a few of the scenarios from those sharing their "life changing" experiences listening to and chanting along with the mantras.

The artists offer tips on using mantra meditation to experience more inner peace at www.DevaPremalUSA.com, where you can sample their music and download text of mantras from many of the world's spiritual origins. May peace prevail in your heart all day long.

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