Ra Ma Da Sa - and the woman with the issue of blood

Ra Ma Da Sa
Siri Gaitri Mantra, also called the healing mantra or, Ra Ma Da Sa, Sa Say So Hung  is the  is the mantra for the sacred healing meditation first taught in the Summer of 1973.

Here is what the 3HO website has on it. 
 It was also practiced at every White Tantric Yoga® Course for the Mahan Tantric, Yogi Bhajan.This healing meditation is used to pray for healing energy for our friends, family, and ourselves.
Kundalini Yoga practitioners have been using this meditation for the last four decades and I encourage you to try it when you want to send healing energy to a loved one or even to yourself.

Practicing the mudra and the mantra properly will optimize the energy flow and will make this meditation all the more potent.
Posture: Sit in Easy Pose (sitting on the floor, with legs crossed) or in a chair with feet planted firmly on the ground, with the spine straight, and a light Neck Lock applied (chin pulled back slightly).

Mudra:  see my notes for other mudras. The mudra (hand position) is most important. The elbows are bent down by the sides, and are tucked comfortably but firmly against the ribs. The forearms are almost perpendicular to the floor, with the hands extended out at a 45 degree angle from the center of the body. Most importantly, the palms are perfectly flat, facing up, hands bent back at the wrists. You should feel a pull in the lowest part of your forearm as you almost hyper-extend your wrist to make the palms flat. (This tends to be the most challenging part of the meditation so it is important not to let the hands relax out of the position.) The fingers are kept side by side, except that the thumb is spread from the other four fingers.
Eyes: Eyes are closed.
Mantra: This mantra consists of 8 basic sounds:
Ra Ma Da Sa, Sa Say So Hung

This mantra taps into the energies of the sun, moon, earth, and the Infinite Spirit to bring deep healing. It is important to pull the navel point powerfully on the word Hung. Note that the word Hung is not long and drawn out. Rather, it is clipped off forcefully as you pull in the navel. Chant one complete cycle of the entire mantra with each breath. Then deeply inhale and repeat. Remember to move the mouth precisely with each sound. Try to feel the resonance in the mouth and in the sinus area.
Mental Focus: You can choose to mentally visualize the person or persons that you are wanting to heal, as you send this energy to them for their well­-being.
Time: Continue chanting for 11 to 31 minutes.
To End: To end the meditation, inhale deeply and hold the breath, as you offer a healing prayer. Visualize the person you wish to heal as being totally healthy, radiant, and strong. See the person completely engulfed in a healing white light and completely healed. Then exhale and inhale deeply again, hold the breath, and offer the same prayer again. Exhale, inhale, and hold, repeat the prayer, and exhale.
To complete, inhale deeply, stretch your arms up high, and vigorously shake out your hands and fingers for several seconds. Keep the arms up and hands shaking as you exhale. Repeat two more times and relax.
© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan 1

Translation:
Ra means the sun and connecting with that frequency gives you energy.
Ma means the moon and it aligns you with receptivity.
Da is the the energy of the Earth, grounding you in your roots.
Sa is Infinity and as you chant this, your energy rises upwards and outwards drawing in the healing the the Universe.
When you chant Sa a second time, you pull the energy of Infinity into you.
Say is a way of honoring the all-encompassing Thou.  It is personal, like a loving name for God.
So is a vibration of merger.
Hung is the Infinite, the vibrating real.  It is the essence of creation.  (So Hung together means, I am Thou.)2

D&C 88:7-13 Is a cool comparison to this mantra.

This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made. As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made; As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they were made; And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which you stand. And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings; Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God.

Note:
There is more than one mudra for this meditation.  You can do it as outlined above, If you have several people  there you can sit in a circle and place the person to be healed in the middle of the circle either mentally or physically they can sit or lay in the circle and  reap the benefits of the meditation.  Or you can do it this way. 
 Sit in easy pose.  The right arm is bent at the elbow the hand is up by your shoulder with the palm forward  with fingers and thumb close together. Put your left hand on your navel point.

 

Here is my teacher  isn't she lovely?
This is the starting position.  Start here at RA and the slowly in time with the mantra move your arm until it is strait and your fingers, and palm, and arm are level with the floor.

 When you say HUNG   the wrist bends  leveling out your arm in to one strait line  and is the last part of this motion. After Hung bring the arm back to the starting position as you inhale. 3

I did a 40 day Ra Ma Da Sa  with the intention of healing my daughters heart problems.  I also  tried to  heal myseIf. Usually envision things I dont want in my life or things I'm trying to get rid of, ailments, attitudes, thoughts, habits and so on. One day instead of envisioning pushing these things away with my hand, instead I pictured Christ as he suffered in Gethsemane and instead of pushing out all these bad unwanted things with my hand I reached out to him. Like the woman with the issue of blood (Luke 8:43-48) I reached out to touch him and to have him heal me. I cried through most of the 11 min mediation. Much more powerful for me to reach out for his blessings and healing that come through the power of the atonement than it was to be trying to shove all my problems and inadequacy and ailments out of my life.

Intentions

Lets define it first shall we. Websters Dictionary  tells us that the root word for Intention is Intent and that is defined as : the thing that you plan to do or achieve : an aim or purpose.
Many of us have set Goals before -New Years Resolutions- though most of us are not  very resolute in those resolutions.   When we think of Goals we think   of something you are trying to do or achieve
Or we might  think of  a motion that needs to happen or a space. Sports illustrate that well. Think of  an area or object into which a ball or object  must be thrown, hit, kicked, etc.,  into in order to score points.   To me Goals are focused they are contained. I think of  a Soccer Goal its a designated boundary or space, it is  resolute it doesn't move, and it is the same for  every game. There are specific steps that are required to achieve that "goal"  in sports those are called "the basics" or fundamentals. So lets think beyond goals for a minute and discuss  the difference between goals and intentions.  Intentions unlike most goals are broad, all encompassing, and can be achieved in any number of ways with many different  outcomes.  Intentions are more relatable to art or music than sports.
 A piece of  art or a piece of music  can have  the intention of making people happy or sad or think or or, or, or, or, or...  there are  millions of trillions of possibilities on what  the creator WANTS to happen when you look at, hear, or experience their  art.   They can  use any combination of notes, instruments, voices or any combination of paint, clay, or pen  to create their art.  Yet  they can  produce the same intention using different modalities.  Think broad, or expensive, but effective.

Why we need an intention when we meditate?
Because you get what you project.  This works for goals too... in sports they say "visualize the ball going in the net".   Intention adds power to your meditation. You have added reason, motivation, and incentive to your meditation. Well that is all well and good but WHY? Why should I do this? So I will answer that  question with a new one. Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect?  Edward Lorenz who was a mathematician and meteorologist  is accredited with the theory of the butterfly effect.  So in his theory a butterfly flapping his wings in ( pick any place ) lets say  Beijing  changes the weather in Kansas.  Or as Wikipedia puts it

in chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state

So the small act of setting an intention can manifest great differences in the future, In many different parts of your life.  So set a broad intention something Macro. Here are a few examples:

•  I want to have and exercise more faith
•  I want  to recognize and live  up to my divine potential (A side note:  I did that one for my very first intention- wow- it was wonderful !!!)
•  I want to see the world/people with my spiritual eyes or how God sees
•  I want to act with more charity...

These are all broad statements that can be realized any number of ways and can be manifested in all parts  of your life.

When Should I Set my Intentions?

I love how sprouting seeds look like a brain.

The new moon is a great time to plant seeds. The  pull of the moon (you know the  pull that causes the  tide change in the ocean)  pulls the  moisture  from the earth  to the surface of the soil making the ground more moist, thus making it a great time to plant seeds because there is more moisture.  Or the conditions are more favorable for seeds to sprout when the moons energy is influencing the water in this way.  Ideas are the seeds of  the mind and  fully formed intentions are  good seeds  to plant.  A good time to plant your mind seeds is the  new moon it happens  once a month so its a good reminder and it comes often  enough for you to check up on  your intention and  see how it has manifested itself or see if you  need to tweak it or not.  The  new moon  is the beginning of the moon cycle so think of  birth  or rebirth of new ideas and a  new and better you.

How often should I Change it?
 Its good to keep an intention for at least 40 days. Give it time to stick its OK to tweak  it a bit but keep the basic concept the same long enough to feel its influence strongly.  A great way to do this is pray. Ask God to help you  find something to focus on. God has Great Intentions for you and they are all over the scriptures. Ask God to help you find one that would be best and then stick with  it until  you feel prompted to change.  This could be a  long time so review it now and again.

How often to I need to  review my intention?
Just set your intention and  then think about it when you think about it.  That is the power of the subconscious you don't have to think about it every min of the meditation you can set it at the start and then  not think of it for weeks but it will still influence your  meditation and out comes of it. But  a honest review of it on the  new moon,  or full moon, or every 3rd Tuesday, or whatever works for you would be good too.  The point being you don't need to have it at the front of your brain for every meditation and during every moment of the day.  Writing it down in a journal and  writing down ways you have seen it come to pass is  a great way to review.

Can I set MORE than ONE intention?
Yes! Its good to have an Overall intention - lets say that its to recognize and use the atonement more  in my life. But  a few weeks  into  meditating with this intention and I have a family member who  is sick. I can  set a underlying intention  of  sending  light, love, and healing to  this family member as I  meditate.  Both intentions are in effect but  I will drop  my intention on  helping  Jethro or Skippy or whomever  once he is better. Oh, and don't over do it. You Can set Too many intentions. Keep them Small and few.

Caution
OK now that you have done all that I will caution you against setting intentions and then planing  out results or how  this intention will come about or be displayed. If you place limitations  or  plan a road map for your intentions than  that is most likely what will happen and you will miss out on  filling your life with  blessings of this intention in every angle of your life.  Think of it this way. Say your intention is to fill your life to the brim with good things.  So lets make your life a cup a great big tall

cup. After setting this intention you decide the best way to fill your  life or cup  up is with  a steady stream of  scripture study.  So you turn on the tap and  read your heart out and study until you are  full to the brim with the good things of the gospel  that are contained in the scriptures. There!  Intention was met! Hurrah,  my cup is full and all is good!!!  -True- your cup is full- True you are full of good things- True you met your  intention.
Now lets do this differently. Lets take the same intention Of filling your life with good things and the same cup and lets  let God fill it.  He takes your cup/life and rolls you  down to  Antarctica.  What!?  That wasn't part of the plan-  its OKAY because we have no plans, we let God fill our intentions. Then  he takes our cup and plunges it into the ice cold waters. These waters are pure and filled with more than just scripture study.  They are complete  they have service opportunities, temple work, self love, repentance, faith, love, charity, new ways to understand the magnitude and importance of the atonement, and much MUCH more.  These pure,cold, clear waters don't just stream in  the bottom of my cup, like it does from the tap, They flow over the rim of every side of our cup, they run down the edge of the glass and come crashing at the bottom of the cup they continue to mix and connect as they rise in our cup , enveloping and filling the cup with  goodness, clean pure goodness from every angle of our lives.  When we are done we are full just like we were when we filled our cup up to  the brim with the tap, but  we are filled more completely.  Every aspect of our life that could be touched and reached is influenced.  So don't map out your intentions let God "fulfill" your intentions and make note when he does.

MORE FUN READING
The Intention Experiment 
5 Steps to Setting Powerful Intentions
Set the Tone for Your Meditations with an Intention