What's your streak?

You may have heard me say in class : 'your strongest practice is your daily practice'. Kundalini Yoga taught by Yogi Bhajan takes it a step further. It recommends us to have 'streaks' in our daily practice (Sadhana) without missing a day. A streak is when you practice/do something EVERY SINGLE DAY. Without breaking the thread.

In Kundalini Yoga we practice Yoga sets (Kriyas) or Meditations on whatever area of our lives we would like to work with. There is a Kriya for Self-reliance, to Eliminate stress, to Activate the Navel, Becoming Calm, Becoming Intuitive, Becoming Strong as Steel, Building yourself to Act not React, the list goes on - whatever habit, life situation you would like to shift - there is a Kriya or Meditation for it. Want to break the pattern? Practice, practice, practice.

It is recommended that once we commit to a Kriya/Meditation we do so for a certain number of days. What are the recommended days of continuous, unbroken practice and their effect:

🕉️ 40 days - habits start to change, the old pattern gets broken up

🕉️ 90 days - the subconscious mind starts to align with the conscious mind in your new habit

🕉️ 120 days - a new pathway is established, the positive benefits get integrated permanently in your psyche

🕉️ 1000 days - the new habit is mastered, it becomes unbreakable

How does this work? Our habits are a subconscious chain reaction between the mind, nervous system and the glandular system. We learn these pathways at an early age from our parents and our environment and practice them (unconsciously) for hundreds and thousands of days - thus we master them. If we would like to rewire a new pathway, we need to rewire the chain reaction. Our daily Sadhana is the key that unlocks this new chain.

How do you decide which Kriya / Meditation to commit to? You have several ways. When you practice regularly a Kriya or Meditation will call to you. Either you love the benefit of it or fall in love with it while practising. Start with 40 day commitments. Another way, if you have a teacher, go up to them and ask for a recommendation. Once you are more experienced there is also the option, as most of the Kriyas are online, that you can search YouTube or Google - Kundalini Yoga for xyz - and it will come up with suggestions, look at the printout of the Kriya, practice the practice video, than commit if it calls you. Would only recommend this for more experienced students.

I personally committed on the 31 January 2024 to 1000 days of practicing the Tolerance Kriya (video below). So far I am on day 589 and the changes I began to notice are astonishing.

Why did I choose this Kriya? The meaning of tolerance in the dictionary is:

1. the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with

2. the capacity to endure continued subjection to something such as a drug or environmental conditions without adverse reaction.

The meaning to me - to become more tolerant in life is when things get thrown at me to be less reactive, as less things push my buttons. Each time I practice I feel that a knot is being untied, a bound releases and the less of these binds I have the more free I feel. This Kriya was one of the first ones we practiced on my Teacher Training and called to me after practising it loud and clear.

A word of caution, if you miss a day, you are back to Day 1. I am afraid 😅.

Have you got a Sadhana commitment at the moment? If yes, please share in the comments.

Sat Nam

Dora / Kirti Jasdev Kaur