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— Today we are heading toward materialistic progress at the cost of our health, physical as well as mental. Inthis blind pursuit, instead of peace we end up in stressed life in most of the times. Unfortunately neither we understandthat we are under stress nor get any training of stress management while we study or work. Consulting psychiatrist isstill a taboo in India. Stress creates adverse effect on physical as well as mental health. Our first reaction to stressfulsituation is rapid pulse rate. Short term stress is easy to control. But long term stress may lead us to mental illness likeanxiety, depression, breathlessness, sleep disorders, eating disorders etc. So it is very important that we use techniquesto lessen the adverse effect of stress at right time. Studies have shown that techniques like meditat1ion, mantra therapy,music therapy or Raga therapy can help us in this matter. From ancient times yogis and saints of India were usingmantra therapy for maintenance and improvement of mental, physical as well as spiritual health. Today’s researchershave also done experiments to show that mantra therapy can be used to regulate human reactions like stress, anxiety,fear etc. This paper is an attempt to present positive effects of chanting OMKARA on pulse rate to calm our mind. Inorder to investigate effect of chanting OMKARA, twenty healthy volunteers were chosen for this experiment. In thisexperiment the participants were asked to chant OMKARA for five minutes daily for four weeks. Their pulse rate wasrecorded before and after chanting. The results show reduction of pulse rate of the participants in post chantingmeasurement.

Jyoti Kori, “Effect of chanting OMKARA mantra on pulse rate for stress reduction”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 7, pp. 566-571, July 2017.