What are your experiences with Mudras and Mantras ?
I’m starting to practice mudras and mantras and I wanted to know if anybody had any experience from using or practicing a certain mudra or mantra and what can a new practitioner of mudra and mantra know ?
Try to find some one who has "activated" whatever mantra if possible.
Do you find an internal correspondence to chakras or energy centers?
About mudras, never experimented with them.
About mantras. This is my experience with them.
Spamming a mantra/mantras opens you spiritually. It clears the "channel" so you become spiritually a lot more open. This can and will make you very sensitive to energies. It dissolves some blockades. These blockades get blasted off when raw force is applied. Quantity, long focused sessions, and hot mantras can do this fast.
Now should it really be done fast? I'd say no. Some parts of your spiritual engine are not ready for it. You should be really careful, there can be very unpleasant side effects. When you start working with them, you have to start from smaller numbers and keep adding more over time. Else the practices will overload you, the practice, it makes you feel horrific pains in your head, burning third eye. Anger, irritated states, feeling like exploding. This is the gym example, take it easy, slow and steady, or you will hurt yourself.
Unlocking. I think one thing is unlocking a mantra further, the other is unlocking your overall sensitivity and the abilities. In a very open state you can connect quite easily with any mantra, within hour-hours. It feels like everything comes in unfiltered, the barriers disappear and the energies enter you almost instantly. I was in a state like that for years, where all energies came in like a waterfall. This became a problem, like connecting with too many things at once until you feel like getting ripped apart. It's better to focus on the mantras connected to a system/religion, that you like the most - than spam everything at once. This turns into a chaotic spiritual mess. Now I try to focus more on working within the frames of a system, and some experimentation with the others.
When something is unlocked, the senses, abilities. Mantras will give extraordinary states of bliss, high, supreme wellbeing effects.
There are short mantras, medium length, long ones. A short one can be more difficult since the reading speed is too fast. A single word thing can be read more than 10000-15000x+ per hour.
You have to first figure out which path to pick. This will become your main. Switching is possible but can be difficult, after a certain point you will connect a lot with whatever you are doing. You have to start from somewhere, begin the training process. Maybe at first 10-15 minutes, after a while 30 minutes, then 60. Then 1,5-2 hours, 3+ 4+. This is individual and when you do it as DIY, pay attention to what happens.
At first with the mantras, more energy comes in than goes out. This makes you feel stacked, loaded, charged, but also overwhelmed. Then something will blast open, the bottle cap goes off. After this point you can spam more. You get the openness but the engine still lags behind. It cannot yet process so much information and energy. I call this data + energy. Processing words, word after word, mantra after mantra, thousands upon thousands. Once the engine is ready, you can go for very long sessions, 10-12-14-16+ hours and not feel overwhelmed at all.
The main mantras which I have worked with, hesychast Jesus prayer and the Sufi dhikr "la ilaha illallah", both are blazing hot. The "om mani padme hum", hare Krishna, are also both effective. There are many interesting ones, Kali mantras, Vishnu, Kubera, Ganesha. I chose the monastic and sufi ones because of the power words and strength. Both names Jesus and Allah are incredibly hot.
The mantras can be categorized as cold and hot ones. Sufis call them, jamali (beauty) jalali, (majestic). Now people are different. Some can only use the cold ones, others prefer the hot stuff. Some use both to balance it. Some start from spamming cold + some hot and later become hot spammers. The arab example would be salawats being cold and "la ilaha illallah" being a majestic hot dhikr/mantra.
Skull reminded me to finish it because he saw your post. here’s the elements all fingers correspond to though
I've used this for gambling magic to success, but can be used to enable even basic elemental magic. Curling in your index finger only (active fire) to send an expression of fiery energy to liven up a party, or curling in the water and earth finger to combine their associations. I've only used this system for geomantic stuff specifically rather than just generic elementalism, but there is no reason it shouldn't work.
it may work for some practices but doesn’t seem to work to figure out any of the well known Mudras. It leaves out Ether, I am trying to see or find out more correlations and other utilizations of Mudras and if any can be used in combination to produce a bigger effect of something else. But this was interesting to see another take on the elements.
