Meditation for Prosperity and Interdependence

Art by Gordon Wood

Dependence has become a bad word. It is synonymous with neediness weakness and addiction. In our hyper individualistic and pseudo-independent society, we have gotten further and further away from the positive aspects of family and community like interdependence, coexistence and sustainability. This meditation is for prosperity and interdependence. It stimulates the upper palate and hypothalamus which will awaken the pineal gland, which is considered "the seat of the soul." This awakening to ourselves, and our spiritual gifts, is one of the main reasons we do this practice. It is a life long process and definitely bears its fruits in the material and spiritual planes when done with consistency. But you HAVE to be disciplined. I can't stress this enough. It isn't enough to want something. You HAVE to do the practice. It doesn't get easier than this meditation. No posture. No mudra. No mantra. No pranayama. Make YOU the priority. NO EXCUSES. Lets get to it. 

POSTURE: Sit in Easy Pose. Or if you are unable to sit on the floor you may sit in a chair and cross your ankles.                                                                                                                    

MUDRA: No mudra. Hands in any relaxed position. I like Buddha Mudra which is the left hand sitting inside the right with your thumbs touching.

TO BEGIN: Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh, or neck lock. Keep the spine straight. Rub your hands together. Press your thumbs against your sternum holding your hands in prayer pose. Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA GURU DEV NAMO which means "I bow to the infinite wisdom within." Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.

MANTRA: No mantra. But you are going to make a strong clucking sound with your tongue. Creating suction against the upper palate then releasing it. Should sound like a loud drip of water. 

TIME: No more than three minutes. Longer than three minutes will be detrimental to you. 

TO FINISH: Say aloud the Warrior Healer's Affirmations.

NOTES: COMMENTS:

“The person most slave-like is the one who is trying to prove he is independent— because life is totally interdependent. Nobody can afford the thought to be independent because even our life is dependent on our breath. Dependency starts on that which this body lives. How independent can you be? 

Your life depends upon the central ear. There are three bones. One hammer bone strikes the other bone. If that bone stops hammering, you’re done. Your whole world of listening depends on your two ears. Your whole universe depends on your two eyes, whether you see or not. If your two nostrils stop breathing, you are dead. Within us still we say, “I want to be independent. I want to prove it to everybody.” Prove what and to whom? There is a certain reality in us, a certain depth in us, a certain self in us. If we enlarge that then we can overcome. 

Stimulate your hypothalamus by doing this exercise, but please don’t do it more than three minutes. More than three minutes and it’s no longer an exercise; it becomes an addiction. I’d like to go on record and warn you that you are entitled to do it for three minutes only.” ~ Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan November 6th, 1990

TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this for a total of three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 

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Meditation to Realize Your Feminine Power

 

Welcome New Returning and Crash n Burning R & B Yogis! It feels good to be back in the saddle again. Or in this case, back on the mat. I've been a crash n burner on the past few meditations and I am hoping (and praying) I don't let anything get between me and this practice. We all know how much the science and medicine works when we are consistent with it. I, like you, could really use a win right now. Lets do our best to make that happen for ourselves. This meditation is for expanding our arc line. All genders have an arc line that goes from ear to ear. But persons with breasts have an additional arc line that goes across the heart line, nipple to nipple. These arc lines serve as protection and projection of the individual. This meditation fortifies the feminine arc line enabling us to realize our power. And no better time to do that than during eclipse season where we should be letting go of old ways of BEing and stepping into a new improved existence.

TO BEGIN: Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh, or neck lock. Keep the spine straight. Rub your hands together. Press your thumbs against your sternum holding your hands in prayer pose. Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA GURU DEV NAMO which means "I bow to the infinite wisdom within." Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.

PART ONE

MUDRA: Hold your SATURN (middle) and JUPITER (index) fingers together while the other fingers are being held down by the thumb. Bring your hands out to the sides and then have your fingers touch in front of your navel 

MANTRA: HAR which means God, the Creative Infinity. It affirms our ability to co-create. And is used as a prosperity mantra. 

FOCUS: Keep the eyes closed.

PRANAYAMA: Pull the navel as you chant HAR. Find the breathing that feels most comfortable. Avoid hyper-ventilating. 

TIME: 9 minutes

PART TWO

MUDRA: Same mudra as part one, but this time your LEFT arm is bent in front of your chest parallel to the ground and the RIGHT arm is pointed straight towards the Heavens. 

MANTRA: Mentally project HAR in silence. With no sound. No movement. Remain still and steady. 

TO FINISH: Say aloud the Warrior Healer's Affirmations.

NOTES: The heart center arc line is imprinted with the experiences a woman has gone through in life. This meditation helps you conquer mind over matter projecting a new reality. Whatever you vibrate, you become.

TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this for a total of three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 

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Earthquake Meditation

Greetings New, Returning and Crash n Burning R & B Yogis! If we share the same universe (if you are reading this, more than likely do) it feels like there has been one calamity after the other ever since 2023. Be it climate catastrophe, forever wars, genocide, the end of the rule of law, human rights abuses combined with our own life 'ish...these are challenging times to say the least! Staying sane, let alone function, at any capacity is practically impossible. But I have always, and continue to, turn towards spiritual practice for grounding whenever everything around me is seemingly falling apart. This meditation does exactly that! It is for when you have lost your ground. It is the Earthquake Meditation.

TO BEGIN: Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh, or neck lock. Keep the spine straight. Rub your hands together. Press your thumbs against your sternum holding your hands in prayer pose. Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA GURU DEV NAMO which means "I bow to the infinite wisdom within." Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.

MUDRA: Slightly cup you LEFT hand and hold it over the left ear. Hold your elbow in fron tof you so that your upper arm is parallel to the ground. Bring your RIGHT hand in Conch Mudra by your ear. To do Conch Mudra, make a fist by curling in your fingers and press your thumb on the outside of your fist. 

MANTRA: Gently strike the side of your head in time with the Panj Shabd: SA TA NA MA

The Translation from Gurmukhi is:

SA - the beginning, the infinite, and the totality of everything. Ta - signifies life, existence, and birth. It reminds us that life is a gift and encourages us to live each moment fully. 

Na - represents death, transformation, and the cyclical nature of life. 

Ma - symbolizes rebirth and regeneration.

FOCUS: Keep the eyes closed.

PRANAYAMA: Normal breathing. 

TIME: 11 minutes

TO FINISH: Say aloud the Warrior Healer's Affirmations.

NOTES: The magnetic relationship of the two hemispheres of the brain is readjusted with this meditation. This meditation can readjust your electromagnetic field after an earthquake or other trauma. 

TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this for a total of three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 

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Meditation to Heal Addictions

Art by Carol Suzanne Niebuhr

We all have addictions. Whether we acknowledge them or not. And there are SO many things for us to be addicted to! Caffeine, sugar, dopamine, alcohol, drugs, food, social media, positive reinforcement, validation, sex, love. If there was less shame around addiction and more acknowledgement that the Capitalist Imperialist system of production and consumption is set up so that we "use" in order to participate, we would be more apt to seek help. We can honor and thank them for helping us cope and getting us to this point in our lives. But there comes a point in every addicts journey (it doesn't have to be the bottom) where we realize these crutches are detrimental to our physical , metal and spiritual health. We realize that we need to get this under control because it isn't "fun" anymore and it no longer serves a purpose. On a deeper spiritual level, addiction makes us less free. It diminishes our power placing it in something outside of ourselves. If we are truly free, we are self-sufficient, self-contained. There is no need for any thing. This meditation will help us take back our power and be free ourselves of whatever tethers us. Freedom is revolutionary. 

TO BEGIN: Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh, or neck lock. Keep the spine straight. Rub your hands together. Press your thumbs against your sternum holding your hands in prayer pose. Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA GURU DEV NAMO which means "I bow to the infinite wisdom within." Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.

MUDRA: Make fists of both hands and extend the thumbs straight. Place the thumbs on the temples and find the niche where the thumbs just fit. This is the lower anterior portion of the frontal bone above the temporal-sphenoidal suture.

Lock the back molars together and keep the lips closed. Keeping the teeth pressed together throughout, alternately squeeze the molars tightly and then release the pressure. A muscle will move in rhythm under the thumbs. Feel it massage the thumbs and apply a firm pressure with the hands.

MANTRA: Silently vibrate the five primal sounds—the Panj Shabd: SA TA NA MA

The Translation from Gurmukhi is:

SA - the beginning, the infinite, and the totality of everything. Ta - signifies life, existence, and birth. It reminds us that life is a gift and encourages us to live each moment fully. 

Na - represents death, transformation, and the cyclical nature of life. 

Ma - symbolizes rebirth and regeneration.

FOCUS: Keep the eyes closed and focus at the Brow Point.

PRANAYAMA: Normal breathing. 

TIME: 11 minutes

TO FINISH: Say aloud the Warrior Healer's Affirmations.

TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this for a total of three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 
If you have any questions, about this meditation or the contents of this blog, follow me on IG @ rhythmandbreathyoga 
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Millionaire Mantra

 

Happy New Year R & B Yogis! This is our first meditation for 2025. I can't believe the genocides in Gaza is still raging and now the fires in LA. It is a lot to deal with! Lately, I ebb and flow between despair and faith. But if I didn't have this practice, I don't know where I would be. I realize it is difficult to stay disciplined with so much turmoil about which is why I am making this as easy as possible. It doesn't get easier than this. I've kept this mantra in my back pocket because it isn't officially a 40 day meditation. But it IS a mantra in the Sikh tradition for prosperity. And it is a powerful one. Just imagine if you remain consistent for 40 days?! Only good things, prosperous things, will come from it. I am also allowing more flexibility with this one: you can make this one as long or as short as you desire. Add or omit the Mangala Charan Mantra (Aad Duray Nameh) and the Warrior Healer's Affirmations if you are crunched for time or the meditation is about to escape you at 11:50 at night. The main thing is listening to the mantra once a day. Get it in. By any means necessary! Lets stay on our practice to remain grounded and keep our hearts open to the blessings God has reserved for us. And help who we can with our reserves.

TO BEGIN: Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh, or neck lock. Keep the spine straight. Rub your hands together. Press your thumbs against your sternum holding your hands in prayer pose. Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA GURU DEV NAMO which means I bow to the infinite wisdom within. Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.

For seasoned R & B Yogis add this mantra for protection:

AAD GURAY NAMEH – I bow to the Primal Wisdom
JUGAAD GURAY NAMEH – I bow to the wisdom through the Ages
SAT GURAY NAMEH – I bow to the True Wisdom
SIRI GURU DAYVAY NAMEH – I bow to the great, unseen Wisdom.

MUDRA: No specific mudra. 

FOCUS: No specified focus. 

PRANAYAMA: Normal

TIME: As long as it takes to listen to the prerecorded mantra, I will share with you via email. 

The English translation according to Yogi Bhajan is "Take the Name of the Creator God and be healthy. Opportunities will come.”

TO FINISH: Say aloud the Warrior Healer's Affirmations.

TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this for a total of three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 
NOTES ON THE MEDITATION:

“Life is to be lived. Life is a given gift. Atma, the soul, takes the body. The distance of life is covered by destiny and challenged by fate. That’s how it goes. There are no two ways about it.

There are some people who live life by making their security just the earth—the here and now. They box themselves in. They feel insecure. They feel irrelevant to the environments if they are not secure. And their security is very important to them. So they box themselves in and it’s kind of a prison.

Whereas atma, the pranic shakti*, is also a prisoner of the ribcage. It breathes in and out. It can go in and out. But when a person with his ego boxes himself in because of his insecurity, then there’s no place to go in and out. Then a person goes deeper and deeper, layer by layer, and enslave’s one’s atma—one’s self. Then that person does not have any sensitivity to feel others. All they want to know is whether or not their security is secure. Now, there are other people who live a life of mission. They live a life to love everybody. They are smiling. They are beautiful. They support everybody.”

You know, you have your life. You can live. You can have all that you need, and that is destined. But if you want more, you can only get it if you open yourself. Open your doors. A person has to open his heart to others. It is not necessary to try to predominate or dominate other people. Your one beautiful smile, and one, “Hello, how are you?” or “Sat Nam,”—there is so much good it can do, even to a person who doesn’t know you. But to do that, you have to put in your investment. You have to move towards the psyche of another person. You have to show that you are the beloved of the Lord and you are here to live a life for everybody. And this is unlimited. Whatever life is given to you by the pranic energy is unlimited.

It is not necessary that you will die and you will be forgotten. There are human examples to show us. Guru Nanak came in the physical body, lived, talked, preached, helped others, elevated everybody. Then he was ever with us, now he is with ever us. Nobody forgot him when he was alive. Nobody forgets him now. In the Sikh way of life, there is no secret.

Well, there it is mi gente. If only those in positions of power knew the meaning of true wealth and power. If only they realized that we are not separate from each other and the earth belongs to us all. We should take care of her, honor her and protect her. Le sigh. At this point in late stage Capitalism, we can only lead by example, burn our own karma and hopefully leave a legacy of hope when we are no longer of this plane.

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