MEDITATION FOR GUIDANCE: Strengthen Your Inner Voice

Greetings New, Returning and Crash n Burning Rhythm and Breath Yogis,

This is our first 40 day meditation of 2026! How are we feeling about this year? More of the same? A continuation of the previous year? Perhaps trepidation of what is around the bend individually or collectively? Honestly, I have been losing sleep over the state of things: feeling a lot of fear of getting hemmed up by those nafarious creatures. You know the ones. But before I let despair take me over, I remind myself that a loving and compassionate God has my back, my front and every side of me. I have trusted the process, and this practice, thus far. So I have to keep trusting. Don't we say it in our Warrior Healer Affirmations, "I trust and surrender to the process, Divine Loving hands move all?" Let's keep going. Let's tap into our inner voice to receive guidance putting our minds, souls and bodies at ease. I need this. I bet you do too.

POSTURE: Sit in Easy Pose. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

TO BEGIN: 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. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA sip air through a rounded mouth then chant 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.

This meditation has two parts.

PART ONE

MUDRA: Make the hands into a cup with the palms facing up. Leave a small gap between the sides of the Mercury (pinkie) fingers. Bow the head forward over the palms. Look into the palms with the eyes almost closed.

PRANAYAMA: Inhale in 10 strokes. Exhale in ten stokes. 

MANTRA: Mentally vibrate the mantra WHAAHO GURU. Vibrate Whaaho with each segment of the inhale and Guru with each segment of the exhale. 

TIME: After 16 minutes inhale then exhale and resume normal breathing and relax.

PART TWO

POSTURE: Still sitting in Easy Pose. 

MUDRA: Hands in Gyan Mudra with the thumbs pressed against the thumbs. 

MANTRA: Chant WHAAHO aloud 8 times and then GURU aloud 8 times.

TO FINISH: Recite the Warrior Healer's Affirmations 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 three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow as far as you can. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 

NOTES: 

This practice plants the seed of your true nature and uses the power of japa to confirm and reaffirm your Self through your own sound current, your own voice. It also strengthens a woman's fifth chakra and trust in her intuition. At times when the path of truth and clarity seems lost, calm yourself and still your mind. Then the path will be shown to you. 

To live life according to the guidance of inner truth is essential. If you do not, you will have doubts. If doubts are not removed, then frustration comes in. Frustration, when not released, leads to anger. Anger then leads to destructive action either to the Self, others, or both. To stop this vicious cycle, create the habit to still the Self and ask questions of your own higher consciousness. This meditation can develop that capacity. 

So there it is yogis. Commit to yourself. Commit to the practice over the next 40 days. No excuses. Karma doesn't wait. And she's a bitch. Burn it before it burns you. 

- Mama Luz