IMPORTANT: This is a review of Kir Grace's free Kundalini mantra challenge, all links to access it are at the end of this article.
A couple of weeks ago I finished Kir Grace's (@xokirgrace) 11-day mantra and Kundalini yoga challenge, I waited a while before writing this post in order to analyze the way things have changed, because yes, a lot has changed since I started the challenge.
What is Kundalini meditation about?
In Kirsten's literal words:
Man means mind. Tra means projection.
"One of the most powerful ways to access the field of prosperity, abundance, and miracles is through sound. More specifically, the mantra. The word mantra comes from the experience of sound waves flowing through the mental body. Tra comes from tarang, which is the sound wave. Man is the mind. When we chant sacred mantras, we are creating a sound wave that aligns our mental energy with infinity and out of our finite mental fluctuations."
Kirsten explains that the forms of manifestation have changed for some people and that the traditional forms no longer work as efficiently (traditional forms: positive affirmations, writing, vision boards, among others).
He differentiates between affirmations and mantras.
Affirmations are a positive status in order to create structures based on the mind's own projections, it is a creation of the conscious mind but limited to our own life experiences that have a limited time in our reality.
Mantras are a quantum form that uses sound vibrations to change the frequencies of our body and is a method that heals the nervous system considered as "the teacher is the sound".
The latter seems to me to be a more direct and liberating approach to consciousness as there is no physical effort to correctly embody the right words, which for some people is suffocating enough.
"You don't need to use all methods to manifest. You need a regulated nervous system and a refined mind. When the nervous system feels secure and the mind is aligned with infinity beyond the limited perceptions of the ego, you send a signal to the universe from your soul."
The nervous system houses all the history of our experiences: positive, negative, and traumatic; that means that this system is the one that, in one way or another, manages our life.
The brain and the nervous system must be at an aligned point in order to build and manifest our heart's desires, Kir explains that without a regulated nervous system and "out of the state of survival and danger", it is extremely complicated for the brain to formulate and manifest a desire.
When the nervous system heals and calms down, we enter a state of neutrality that allows us to attract and open ourselves to our soul's desires. You stop feeling chaotic and with uncontrolled emotions to allow yourself to feel safe in the state and point where you are, you feel safe.
Personally, I feel much calmer realizing that I have been able to manifest opportunities in my life in a much more fun and detached from the conscious mind, this frees me from thinking "will I have used the right words or energies to manifest what I desire".
The primary desires of the human being revolve around stability and security, these are derived in other things such as: money, relationships, health and others. But the pivotal point is stability, which does not literally translate into the desire for money, for example, what is really desired is a state of internal stability that allows me to understand that once I have that internal security in my nervous system I will be able to open myself to have the other elements.
This is based on the theory of the search for external support that makes us believe that only something external can make us feel good about ourselves, that is why we give our value as individuals to elements outside of us: how much a person loves me, how much money I have, how many titles I have, how much other people admire me.
We do not need to explain to the soul what it means to want security and stability, the soul knows it, the "problem" is the mind, which possesses the limiting thoughts.
Yoga mantras, patterns and positions affect the different body types (10 to be exact), which intervenes in the blood flows and vibrations of the body.
With the use of these techniques your body and your vibration are aligned with these sound vibrations and are integrated in you and your body in an unconscious way, this stabilizes your positive and negative emotions to center you in a neutral point.
What do the mantras used in the challenge mean?
ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO
ONG: creative energy, the totality of the cosmos, the consciousness of the creator/source/god. Generating life force
NAMO: I bow or call with respect, receptivity and reverence.
Together: instruct your consciousness to release the limitations of ego: i.e. linear time, control, fear-based desire and lack
GURU: wisdom or teacher
DEV: divine, subtle, etheric, wisdom that belongs to god
Ong namo guru dev namo = bowing to the reflection of the infinite wisdom of god within, surrendering to the experience of divinity, releasing the constructs of the mind to the heart.
HAR HARAY HARI WAHE GURU
HAR - the potential of the seed of Infinite Creativity.
HARAY - the flow of the Creative Force.
HARI or haree - manifestation of the Creative Force.
WAHE GURU - of joy and wonder at the beauty of this process.
"It is a Shakti/Bhakti mantra (utilizing the masculine and feminine principles) that uses the primordial force of creativity to get rid of blockages or difficult situations in life. It can carry one through any blockage and opens one's creative energy."
What was my personal experience?
I started to see changes a week after starting the challenge. My routine that week, to warm up before starting the 11 days, was to take half an hour after lunch just to listen to the playlist for the NGO mantra NAMO GURU DEV NAMO.
I chose that time and duration because it was the most comfortable at the time, it does not mean that if you choose to try this mantra you must do it with these same instructions.
The following week I started receiving job and project offers (for those who don't know, I work freelance in a different field than my Beith account), and day after day it was a different call.
Most of those proposals did not materialize, but that let me understand that, indeed, something different had happened.
It's those things that happen all of a sudden that have no explanation and that you attribute to the change you recently incorporated because there is no other answer.
We started the 11-day challenge and each day we had approximately 20-minute sessions with the HAR HARAY HARI WAHE GURU mantra.
In the beginning, I felt amazing, calm, confident and with an eagle eye on all my activities, some of the changes I was able to experience in those first few days are as follows:
I was getting up earlier in the morning by the third week after I started, I have a tendency to sleep late and it is a habit I am always working on changing.
I experienced better control of my depressive symptoms, I felt more neutral and able to cope with strong emotions, and the mantras helped to soften the crying.
I felt neutral and focused in my day-to-day life.
There was a calmness in the racing thoughts and exaggerated ideas of reality, however, when I stopped doing the mantras for a few days these feelings grew again and it was harder to start again.
I had the energy to go for a walk and try new things, the fear was not so intense.
Better channeling and intuitive reading with tarot and other methods in general.
Better quality of sleep and vivid dreams.
Around day 7 I stopped the practice for personal reasons, I started a big project in the first days of the challenge, and the time I had to invest overlapped the Kundalini meditation practice, which was detrimental to my experience.
What did I learn from the experience?
What I learned from the pause and how I felt made me understand that my nervous system is overly overwhelmed and in a constant state of alert, to such a level that if I tried to resume the practice my mind made me believe that it was not necessary and that I had to work because that was more important.
So I cheated.
I started listening to the mantras on my YouTube playlist as background music while I worked, especially at times when I needed more concentration. And the truth is that it turned out very well because I felt that I achieved my goal, moderately.
I missed the breathing practice, but I understand that routine is important. I understand that only we are capable of creating that routine and we must understand that if something does us good and allows us to concentrate and feel better we must prioritize that activity.
It doesn't mean that understanding it gives me the ability to automatically integrate it into my life.
On a curious note, when I started listening to the mantras again the job offers started to flow again, more stable offers, more realistic, and with the potential to become long-term projects.
I also took up an old project that I had put aside and now saw a huge potential in it.
But this is just my experience and results, yours can and will be different because your soul has a unique purpose and desires.
Below, I leave you all the links so you can access the information for free and do it in a self-taught way. I hope this review of the experience will encourage you to try something different and experience the results for yourselves.