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The power of ‘om’: How chanting can help your stress and sleep – Sydney Morning Herald
It’s 9.30pm and my daughter has come downstairs to see us for the third time since bedtime. Soon, she begins to yawn – thanks to an ancient practice.
“Have you tried doing some mantra? I ask, knowing the answer already.
“I have but it doesnt always work, she pleads, desperate for me to lie down with her.
“Darling, it doesnt work if you just say it a few times. You need to do it for a little longer for it to have an effect.”
Within a few minutes of lying side by side in my bed chanting the word “om”, my daughter begins to yawn, repeating the mantra out loud becomes more of an effort for her and by the five-minute mark shes telling me shes r…
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