Chant the mantras Om, (Crown & “third eye), Aiim, (throat), Hreem, (heart), Shreem, (Solar Plexus), Kreem, (Sacral), and Kleem, (base of spine).

Visualization is used for gathering thoughts and energies from the chakras. (See them releasing upwards to the Crown from each chakra).

Then touching the Crown an umbrella-like visualization is used, where all the thoughts and energies slide down the “umbrella” to be gathered around the heart area. About an arm’s length away. around the body).

Chant Om Hreem as this process occurs

Dealing with negative or anxious thoughts.

Instead of fighting or blocking them, the witness and accepting the thoughts, placing them in the protective umbrella-like girdle around the heart.

Using Om Hreem to gain clarity.

Use the mantra ‘Triim now. Push the mantra out away from the body with the right hand – palm out. (A Visualization).

Trim is a powerful mantra associated with the heart chakra and the goddess power that creates and moves through the world. It helps to push through and dissipate negative energies, emotions, and thoughts, facilitating healing and transformation.

How does the exercise relate to the concept of the inner child and parts in Internal Family Systems (IFS)?

The exercise acknowledges the presence of different parts or inner child aspects that communicate through thoughts and emotions. It encourages observing these parts without judgment and managing them by placing them around the heart area for clarity and healing.

What is the role of the heart chakra in this practice?

The heart chakra is a powerful connecting chakra that radiates cosmic energy and serves as the central area where all thoughts and energies are gathered, witnessed, and worked through.

How does the practice of this exercise help mental wellness and is it therapy?

The practice suggests that mental wellness as commonly understood is a construct and that true healing comes from accepting and working through thoughts and emotions using mantras and meditation rather than relying solely on therapy or medication.

What advice is given for practicing this exercise regularly?

It is advised to practice the exercise anytime, especially when calm, upon waking, or before sleep, to keep the cycle going, manage stress and anxiety, and maintain clarity and healing over time.

So:

 Hari Om Shanti Shanti Shanti, then Hari Om Guru Om, and I’m touching my head. Hari Om Guru Om – we want the light of the Guru so that we can see what’s going on in our thoughts. Lots of thoughts, anxiety thoughts, negative self-thoughts, ruminations, all thoughts, all sorts of thoughts. So, what we’re doing now is asking for the light of the Universal Teacher to lighten up that material.

We’re not seeing it negative or positive. We’re just going to see it clearly or there will be light shining there. So, we want to make sure we’ve got the whole package there in our brain because that’s where they come from. But they also come from our bodies. Having got the light, the next step is to go down through the chakras to release the thoughts, the energy of the thoughts.

The negativity, the ruminations, the anxiety, plus any other thoughts that need release, which are not purposeful to us at this moment. I’m going to start with Om, and you can follow me. Om. That’s the chakra here. You might like to look at where I’m putting my fingers. The Sahasrara chakra – crown chakra.

Coming down to the third eye between the eyebrows touching with the right hand with the middle finger Now we can touch with our hand going down to the heart chakra. Now we go down to the navel chakra

Now we go down to the Solar Plexus and then Muladhara – at the base of the spine.

Om, aim, hrim, srim, krim, klim. That releases all the energy back up – each mantra per chakra.

 So, we’re back up to the Crown. Now it’s all coming, we visualize all that thought pattern that you have some distress about, some concern about. It’s all now coming up.

Now we visualize an umbrella, like a plastic sort of clear, but not plastic. It’s a flow of data in streams.

So, we’ve got this “umbrella shape”, all the data, and it’s flowing. And now, it’s all the thoughts that you want to investigate, see clearly, and maybe even deal with, possibly, or use, beneficially. So, we’re going to chant Om Hrim, and we’re seeing it around the heart area.

You can put your hands around your heart, chest area, Feel all that energy. It’s soothing because you’re witnessing it. You’re not affected by it.

The content might be unpleasant, like the black data and blobs green, blobs of blue, blobs of red. It’s all coming down to this space around your chest and to the back surrounding the heart. And we’re just going to go Om Hrim. (Remember all the i sounds of the mantras are long – a double i).

This is similar to the exercise we did when we did the breathing and we pushed out anger and negative thoughts into the sponge, into the aura – held back by the shield that we made. Now we’re doing the same thing with the chakra mantras. And we’re now dealing with it from the witness perspective,

You might see certain areas/segments. You know, like on a computer, like segments on the hard drive. So, this contains anxiety. This contains trauma. This contains ruminations of all sorts. We can apportion parts of this area around us now.

Around the heart, back, front, but about an arm’s length away. And we can, if we want to, delve into those thought processes that are sitting there and say, well, what is that area for? What’s that area about? If you want to, that’s up to you.

Observe, see it, witness it. There might be some colors. There might be some kind of feeling/emotion about them. They all vary for each person.

But the main thing is…

You want to get to a place where you can comfortably hold whatever it is you want to deal with. But you don’t have to deal with everything at once. You could be worried about something, a rumination, or you could have anxiety about something. But you can now place it here or over here or over here. It’s up to you. You place it where you want it, where you can see it. You can put it behind you if you don’t want to see it.

Just leave it there and wander around doing your job. It’s behind me. I can’t see it, so I don’t know that it’s there. It’s up to you.

Now, this is why my main mantra is on TRIM. Pronounced TRIIM. It is the Goddess Power – Shakti, that creates and goes through the world. It’s actively creating.

Accepting and dealing with anything, including health. So Trim is good mantra for longevity, good health, and overcoming problems. Because you’re actually not avoiding them. You’re witnessing them and then you’re now starting to move through them. Not blocking them. You’re not necessarily dealing with them. You might be just going through them.

Suppose you’ve got a rumination and anxiety about something. Oh, I’ve seen it here. I’ve got it. And then you take your right hand and push into it with Trim and push through it. So, what happens then is, firstly you’re coming out the other side, and then, it’s being dissipated or dispersed.

That’s the force that created everything. So, you’re in touch with the whole creation, the female Shakti energy that created everything we see, the Maya. The Goddess who is in charge of the Maya, if you like.

So Trim is quite a powerful mantra, but you need to be ready to be engaged at that level with the world, to be able to go through it. And when you’re not at that level, it’s too hard to get into that because agitation, or thought processes, or emotions are too jangly. So that’s why we do the Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti to just start. And three deep breaths.

And yes, you’ve got the inner child business around you, around your heart. You might put it behind you. Most people do; they bury it. But now you might want to bring it out front and you can see it. Then maybe walk through it.

And as you walk through it, it’s the joy, joy of being okay with it.

You can then just be peaceful and blissful. Then, when feeling quite calm focus one the mantra sound as it tails of into a mmmm sound.

Go into the ether, into the cosmos,

Now in psychology we have ego identity. But it is about being enmeshed in Maya, the illusion, enmeshment. It’s not about identity particularly. It’s more about enmeshment and holding on to thoughts, emotions, and all those things – which is fine. If we’re managing them, we can hold them in our mind.

Maybe a lot of people are too bogged down in it all, so they just want mental wellness

Because they associate themselves with the mind and the mind seems sick. But, originally there were different concepts regarding this mental wellness thing. It’s another recent construct. It’s only in recent history that we have psychiatrists and psychologists. Never had them in the “good old days”!

I use the mantras in a very practical way, channeling them down into the chakras, which has not been done before in any of the scriptures I have read about. (There are other words associated traditionally with chakras – but for mantra chanting).

Nobody has said, well, take Om Guru Om, and apply it to C.B.T. techniques

And then come down to Om Hrim, like a visualization, again as in Defusion techniques. So, I’m applying mantras to therapy. It’s a new application.

Why not? I don’t want to sit on the street and switch off from the world for days. I want to be able to manage the world. Have the time to manage stress, manage the pressures of life, and manage the setbacks.

This is about using mantras in a very therapeutic way. We need practical solutions, not pills, not the therapy, not something expensive. It’s something that is within, available within us. Take responsibility for it. Take the agency for it. Know the body. I know it’s able to heal. There is an ability there – if I stay out of the fixing mode.