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Calm the Mind and Reduce Anxiety With Japa Meditation

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Japa is a type of mantra meditation that is a series of
repetitions that you do every day. They are recited in multiples of 108. Each
repetition helps to release an endless amount of negative emotions and
thoughts. Mindfulness meditation is very similar to Japa. The same principles
of mindfulness can also be applied to meditation. In mindfulness meditation,
one pays careful attention to the present moment.  You don’t need mala beads or Buddha beads to
do this, but you do need to count to 108. There’s a lot of conventional ways
that you can do these 108 mantras and different ways to keep count.

Three ways to count 108 mantras

1. Use a notebook

If you want to, you can use a little notebook and make checkmarks
for each mantra. You can also draw om symbols or anything else that will help
you focus. It would be best to use grid line paper so you can easily calculate
blocks of 108 marks.

2. Count on your fingers.

There is one cool way
that I saw on YouTube was on your hands on your four fingers.
You have three parts, and you can count in multiples of 12  mala beads are 108 beads, starting with the
guru bead, which is at the end of the 108 beads.

3. Use Buddhist Prayer Beads

There are many benefits of using mala beads for meditation. The
beads themselves have powerful spiritual and physical qualities.  The Buddhist Prayer Beads has been very
helpful in helping me deal with all kinds of spiritual problems, physical
diseases, and even problems with the body and mind.  The gemstone and wood beads can help reduce
anxiety, stress, chronic pain, and even eczema, skin conditions, and menstrual
pain. One of the core benefits of using mala beads is that the beads can serve
as a visual “external support system” for the mind and body during
periods of meditation.

What you do is you think of a phrase or a word that is something
you want to invite into your life and cultivate. Something you want To bring
mindfulness towards is best. It can be anything, for example, you want to bring
strength or love or hope. You can say I am strong; I am hope I am love. As
you’re going through the beads, you hold the beads. You’re never supposed to
use your index finger again; I see people do it, but you’re not supposed to.
It’s supposed to represent the ego. So you can use your three other fingers and
your thumb. And then say your mantra. I am love. You can turn the beam, take a
breath, and move to the next bead when you get all the way around. If you’re
going to start over, you don’t cross over the guru bead. You flip it and go
back again the other way. So that’s how I use them all but like I said, You
don’t have to use them all to do this.

There are plenty of lovely options out there for buying a set of
Buddhist Prayer Beads. If you’re looking for a cheap DIY alternative, you can
make your own, and you can also buy very lovely mala beads at japamalabeads.com
for a good price.

The number 108

The number 108 has so many meanings. It’s a spiritual number.
There’s a lot of reasons, but the one that resonates with me and I don’t know
if it’s because I love yoga. It said that we have 108 meridians in our body and
that they all lead to the heart center. And so, when you are using a mantra, you
are opening those meridians and therefore opening your heart center. There are
other reasons that there are reasons that have to do with astrology. There are
reasons that have to do with the distance between the Sun and the Earth and the
Moon. They’re all there. They all add up.

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