Japa
जप (japa)
The practice of repeating a mantra or name - counted, whispered, or silent - until repetition becomes remembering. Read in English
जप — मन्त्र या नाम का गिना हुआ, फुसफुसाया या मौन दोहराव, जब तक दोहराव स्वयं मार्ग न बन जाए।
Japa is mantra put to work: repetition as discipline. Traditionally counted on a mala of 108 beads, it can be spoken aloud, whispered, or - considered the ripest form - carried silently in the mind while the hands do other things.
The apparent monotony is the method. The mind consents to repetition only reluctantly, and everything it throws up to escape - boredom, brilliant ideas, sudden errands - becomes visible in the process. Japa is thus a mirror disguised as a chore.
A modest start: one round of whatever phrase you have chosen, once a day, at the same seam of the day - after waking, before eating, upon returning home. Let the bead count hold the ambition so the mind doesn't have to.