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Mantra
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Mantra
(1) MANTRA

Monitoring & Actualization of Noetic TRAining. A feasibility study which assessed the effect of noetic therapies—stress relaxation, imagery, touch therapy, and prayer—as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes
Conclusions Of the noetic therapies, off-site intercessory prayer had the lowest short- and long-term absolute complication rates

(2) Mantra

A word/phrase used in yoga, meditation, and autosuggestive therapy, to facilitate mental immobilisation

mantra (mänˑ·tr),
n “mind protection;” in Hinduism and Buddhism, a pure sound that is used in meditation and rituals.


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For other powers that are evil, people learn magic and do tantric and mantric practices.
The two other slogans that were to gain wide currency--"A house is a machine for living in" and "The plan is the generator"--are more precise in their meaning, but again their mantric repetition by others is invariably atmospheric and misses the more radical claims being made.
Other Shamanic Jewish medicine rituals involve mantric chanting, incantations, fire, dance and drumming.
 
 
 
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