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 intention [...]

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 use [...]

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 4 vertical [...]

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 ok, [...]