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Your MALA contains the astrologically significant number of 108 beads.

It is traditionally used for keeping count while reciting, chanting or mentally repeating a mantra or name of a particular deity, a practice known in Sanskrit as Japan.

But running your fingers over the beads, you can also use your MALA as just an intensely personal and tactile way of focusing your mind, to help when you are searching for solutions, for a spark of inspiration or for inner strength in times of adversity.

How to use your MALA

Hindu tradition holds that the correct way to use your MALA is with your right hand, with the thumb flicking over the beads one at a time, one bead to the next and with the MALA draped over the middle finger.

Draping it over the index finger should be avoided because the index finger represents your ego, the greatest impediment to self realisation.

The special significance of the number 108

This number is sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism and other Dharmic religions.

There are said to be 108 energy lines converging to form the heart Chakra. One of them Sushumna leads to the Crown Chakra which is said to be the path to self realisation.

In Astrology there are 12 Houses and 9 Planets equaling 108.

The sun is 108 times the diameter of the earth.

In Chinese Astrology, the Tao philosophy holds there are 108 sacred stars.

In Islam, the number 108 is used to refer to God.

And in Mathematics too, the number 108 is a Harshad Number, a number that is divisible by the sum of its digits.