April 3

I’m starting to see things!

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Shiva Nata has become a practice that I dip into when I think there’s something it can help with, rather than something I do everyday or so as a general practice.  This might change in the future when I get to looking at Levels 6+. For now, though, I’ve started to use it with an [...]

March 19

Intentions, visions and epiphanies

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Intentions For the first time since starting Shiva Nata, I had been able to think of an intention that I was emotionally invested in.  I have struggled with this before, though I’m still not sure exactly why that is, so it was great to finally find myself with a question that I felt I could [...]

February 9

Day whatever I’ve stopped counting: taking it to the max

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I’ve thrown the plan out of the window It wasn’t working.  I really needed an epiphany and I was getting nowhere fast.  So it was time to really up the ante.  This evening I did a monster practice as follows: The entire series for Level 3, using 8 different words for the 4 horizontal and [...]

January 28

Day 3: Working with an intention

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So yesterday Duff said that he recommended working with intentions with Shiva Nata, and gave me an example one.  I’m easily persuaded, so I tried it out today. The intention was around asking my unconscious to give me a sign as to whether I really have ‘mastered’ Level 3, or if I’m kidding myself.  And [...]