MANTRAM RESOURCES

[Resource overview prepared for talk to Harvard Alumni for Mental Health on 8 December 2022;
last updated 17 Jan 2025]

Getting Started with Mantram Repetition
(various options/resources)

  • Four short videos for getting started with the Mantram Repetition Program (free, 42 minutes total = 14 + 11 + 8 + 9 minutes), linked from our other page HERE.
  • Easwaran, E. (2013). Strength in the storm: Transform stress and live in balance and peace of mind. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press. (Amazon)  This book used in most mantram research studies.
  • Easwaran, E. (2008). The mantram handbook (5th ed.). Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press. (Amazon) This book is the most comprehensive and a good beginner guide.
  • Video on “How to Choose and Use a Mantram Everyday” (free, 3 minutes) (Vimeo link)
  • “The Power of the Mantram” (free newsletter from Blue Mountain Center of Meditation) (BMCM link) This newsletter answers a series of frequently asked questions.
  • Summary of Mantram Repetition Program by Jill Bormann, PhD, RN, FAAN (free, 8 mins) (YouTube link) 
  • A “Burnout Prevention” Tool for Improving Healthcare Providers’ Health and Wellbeing: Mantram Repetition (handout, 7 pages, link)
  • Bormann, Kane, & Oman (2020). Mantram repetition: A portable practice for being mindful. Mindfulness, 11(8), 2031–2033. (open access, 3 pages) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01440-4

For Professionals

  • What is a Mantra? Guidance for practitioners, researchers, and editors. American Psychologist (Oman, 2024, online before print). https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001368
  • An Introduction to the Mantram Repetition Program (for healthcare professionals, during pandemic, free, 36 mins, YouTube link)
  • Practice Intentionality & Presence with Mantram Repetition (for healthcare workers: American Holistic Nursing News, 2014) (4 pages, link)
  • Oman, Bormann, & Kane (2022). Mantram repetition as a portable mindfulness practice: Applications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mindfulness, 13(6), 1418–1429. (open access, 12 pages) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01545-w
  • Hulett, J. M., Corona, M., Hartman, B. M., & Bormann, J. E. (2023). A systematic review of interventional trials reporting relationships between silent mantram repetition and health in adults. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 50, 101709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2022.101709
  • Many research publications on mantram repetition can be found by searching on “mantram repetition” in Google Scholar (link).

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