Enhancing the Efficacy of Mantra

 There are well known ways to enhance the efficacy of the mantra.  Instead of using a japamala (rosary) of 108 beads to do a round use your hands. Count 9 with your thumb on the right hand using just the joints of the fourth to the index finger.  Count 12 on the left hand with your thumb using the joints and the tips of the fourth to the index finger.  Pause on each joint and finger tip while you move through the joints on the right hand.   That’s 108 repetitions.  In finger symbolism the index is the jiva (individual) and the thumb is Brahman.  When the round is finished jiva and Brahman are joined in the jnana mudra.

Breath in on OM and out on the rest of the mantra while focusing on a chakra.