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Does Chanting "OM" Actually Do Anything? A Real Brain-Scan Study Says Yes — But Not for the Reason Most People Claim

You've probably heard someone claim OM is literally "the sound of the universe," sometimes even pointed at a real NASA-adjacent discovery as proof. That specific claim doesn't hold up, and we're going to say so plainly. What actually holds up is stranger and more useful: a real hospital-grade brain scan showing OM chanting calming down your brain's fear center, in a way doctors already use as an actual treatment for depression.

Written by Zoomed Vinay