What is a rudraksha mala?
Rudraksha seeds have been worn by sages, saints, devotees, and seekers for thousands of years. They’re revered for their healing and meditative properties. The ancient healing tradition of Ayurveda teaches that wearing rudraksha is beneficial to your heart and nerves. It relieves high blood pressure, stress, anxiety, depression, and lack of concentration. A mala is an aid in meditation or prayer. You repeat a word, mantra, or prayer as each bead passes through your fingers. I made the first one for myself. Right away, I started a 40-day practice with it. Each morning I repeated “Om Namah Shivaya” 108 times as I fingered the rudraksha seeds. I began to love that time. Using the mala and mantra helped me focus in a way I rarely can during meditation. Now, I’m not saying I was perfectly peaceful and blissful every morning. No, but I did sit down with my mala every day in whatever state the morning found me. The repetition, the quiet focus, and showing myself that I could do this consisten
