Howlite is the perfect stone for Virgos, because it promotes calming and grounding energy.
Place your awareness on the howlite in your hand. This stone represents ease, peace, and balance.
Howlite is one of the stones that resonate with the Heart chakra, allowing you to become more tolerant, accept others as they are, and learn to see the best in them. It can also help improve your patience.
Hold your mala in your right hand, draped between your middle and index fingers. Starting at the guru bead, use your thumb to count each smaller bead, pulling it toward you as you recite your mantra. Do this 108 times, traveling around the mala, until you once again reach the guru bead.
Real natural crystals are cool to the touch, don’t scratch easily, contain imperfections, a real stone will feel gritty, and are usually heavier than fakes.
There are 108 chapters of the Rig Veda, 108 Upanishads and 108 primary Tantras.” And these texts are written in Sanskrit, a language comprising 54 letters, each with a masculine (Shiva) and feminine (Shakti) form, 54 x 2 = 108.
More than just beautiful adornment, malas are a powerful and symbolic tool to enhance and deepen your meditation practice.
It is a tool focusing our awareness and concentration during your spiritual practice, meditation, prayer or reflection. Also, if you wear your mala throughout the day, it serves as a constant reminder of your intentions.
If you’re doing Jaap with your mala, then you cannot wear your mala as necklessor on your wrist. if you’re not doing jap then you can wear your mala as neckless or you can wear it on your wrist.
Carefully wrap the mala as many times as you can (usually 3 to 4 times) to slide it around your wrist. We do not recommend wrapping full gemstone malas as the tension created can break the strand. We make 27 bead bracelet malas to wear on your wrist.
One should have a Mala or Rosary consisting of 108 beads as is significant in all Tantra & Veda Texts. Repeat Mala for 2 to 3 times daily.
One of the best ways to cleanse your mala beads is to keep them in the sun (avoid direct exposure). Sunlight has positive, healing energy. So consider keeping your mala in the sunlight (preferably early morning) for a few hours to cleanse it.
