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MAKE YOUR OWN SWITCHWORDS
The Daily Guardian
|November 22, 2025
Some days your mind feels like a crowded room. Work targets. Home duties. Family needs. Your own needs waiting at the end of the list. In that noise, a tiny word can act like a switch. One word. One breath. A quick inner reset.
Switchwords are simple one-word intention cues. They were popularised in English by James T. Mangan as “switches” that help the mind move to a desired state through steady repetition. People use them like a mental remote—say it, feel it, repeat it.
Today there are hundreds of workshops, healings, courses, mantras, methods.
We try to learn everything. Then we feel more confused, not more free.
What to practise first?
How much is enough?
The easiest answer is often the best. You don't need fifty tools. You need one word that matches your moment.
This idea, not new to Bharat, has a deep Bharatiya context. Our Vedic tradition uses bija (seed) mantras— single syllables that hold focused energy. Think of them as Vedic Switchwords. Small sound. Big direction. They are called “Primal Sounds”. They work as compact “sound switches” for centering, speech, abundance, movement or protection & they also concentrate intention into a compact vibration. Vedic bija mantras are especially used to awaken inner power, balance prana and shift consciousness.
This story is from the November 22, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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