Spiritual Chanting

Spiritual prayer is the desire to know your divine soul as yourself, as “I.” Consistently holding this single desire (prayer) will awaken you to the magnetic energy of your soul. The magnetic beauty of your soul to which you awaken will then pull you the rest of the way to its divine body.

          Prayer includes chanting. Spiritual chanting is quietly repeating within oneself, in straight speech or in song, affirmations that one’s Edenic soul is oneself (“I”). When regularly performed, chanting develops an inward momentum of your prayer-energy toward your soul. 

          The process of spiritual chanting includes keeping your mind on the meaning of the words you are saying. Mindlessly repeating an affirmation is not particularly helpful. Keeping your mind on the meaning of the words you are chanting, however, will effectively deepen your heart and your mind toward inner oneness with your soul. 

          As you practice spiritual chanting, you do not always need to use the same affirmation many times in a row. You might begin that way. But you’ll find that as your chanting opens you to the inner dimension of your being, your soul will take the lead in the chanting process. 

          Your soul is perfect, and it will weave a flow of affirmations that will quickly bring you into union with its heavenly body. Since spiritual chanting is performed quietly within yourself, you can chant all day long as you move through your day. 

          Quietly chant within yourself, toward your soul: 

Chant: “I am my perfect soul body. I am perfect life. I am eternal life. I am my perfect soul body.” 

Chant meaning: “Perfect” means pure; without sin. “Eternal” means everlasting; without beginning or end. 

          Your soul alone is I. Self-realization means soul-realization. When you say “I” in your conversations, mean your soul body. 

Chant: “God is, God as.” 

Chant Meaning: “God is” our Macro Soul. The Edenic manifestations of our Macro Soul Universe as individual soul is “God as.” 

          Your individual soul is part of God’s Macro Soul. Therefore, “God is, God as” is a reminder of who and what you are as the divine child (soul) and the Edenic effects of realizing your soul as “I” in your life. 

Chant: “I (soul) am (is) I (soul, heart, and mind).” 

Chant Meaning: The part of your being  — soul, heart, or mind  — that becomes dominant (active) in you will be the nature of your behavior (speech and actions). The other levels of your being will become subservient to that dominant level. 

          When you chant “I (soul) am (is) I (soul, heart, and mind),” you are affirming that your soul body is the active level of your being and that your heart and mind are the subservient faculties of your heavenly soul. 

Chant: “I am.” 

Chant Meaning: “I am,” with the lower case “am” refers to your individual soul. “I AM,” with an upper case “AM,” is our Macro Soul (God). 

          Your soul is dimensionally connected to our Macro Soul (God). Therefore, to know God (our Macro Soul), believe (affirm) “I am." 

Chant: “God (Soul) is me (I).” 

Chant Meaning: It would be incorrect to say, “I am God,” because that would be misleading as to the Source and the Cause of the individual soul which originates with our Macro Soul. “God (Soul) is me (I)” properly acknowledges the direction of the hierarchy; it affirms that you are a heavenly child (soul) of God’s Macro Soul Body (Heaven), a branch (individual soul) of the Tree of Life (Macro Soul). 

Chant: “I (My soul body) am (is) without sin.” 

Chant Meaning: In the phrase, “good and evil,” “good” is the soul and the behavior of the soul. “Evil” is physical energy/matter, and the behavior that comes from giving voice and action to the influences of physical energy/matter. 

          Your heavenly soul is incorruptible good and without sin. You are without sin when you are of your soul because all that comes from your soul is the activity of our Macro Soul, God, Who is good only. 

Chant: 

“My soul is at peace with me (heart and mind). 

I (heart and mind) am at peace with my soul. 

I (soul, heart, and mind) am at peace with myself (soul, heart, and mind).” 

“My soul loves me (heart and mind). 

I (heart and mind) love my soul. 

I (soul, heart, and mind) love myself (soul, heart, and mind)." 

“My soul rejoices in me (heart and mind). I (heart and mind) rejoice in my soul. 

I (soul, heart, and mind) rejoice in myself (soul, heart, and mind)."

“My soul has faith (absolute confidence) in me (heart and mind). 

I (heart and mind) have faith in my soul. 

I (soul, heart, and mind) have faith in myself (soul, heart, and mind)."

Chant Meaning: You are one body of life energy: soul, heart, and mind. As one body, your heart and mind are an inseparable part of your soul’s heavenly body and nature. 

          Be at peace with your soul knowing that your soul is forever at peace with you. Love your soul knowing that your soul forever loves you. Rejoice in your soul knowing that your soul forever rejoices in you. Your soul has perfect faith (absolute confidence) in you (heart and mind). Receive the perfect faith of your soul and then you will naturally have faith in yourself (soul, heart, and mind). 

The above article is an excerpt from the book Land of the Soul: Edenic Living by Alfred George Shaheen.