A small daily grounding practice (Sadhana)
Katarzyna contrasts this practice with the modern addiction to phones, where algorithms hijack attention. She shares her recent insight after visiting gurukul schools in India, where boys as young as children follow a strict daily rhythm — waking at first light, bathing, yoga, meditation, cooking, and reciting Vedic texts in Sanskrit — with no weekends or holidays. She admits she would not be able to endure that discipline, but it inspired her to examine where she lets herself off the hook. A daily, non-negotiable habit, even as small as a glass of hot water, becomes a declaration: 'I decide. Nothing breaks me.' The host adds that in Kundalini yoga this is called sadhana — a practice you keep for 120 or 360 days, and if interrupted you start over — to teach that no matter what, you keep one thing in your life that never changes.
Daily repetition strengthens the prefrontal circuitry associated with volitional control and dampens the amygdala's reactive loops. Each completed day releases a small dopamine reward from self-efficacy, creating a positive feedback loop of inner reliability. Symbolically, it's like the nose of the ship staying pointed despite waves.
Katarzyna: 'I started analyzing myself, saying: Okay, Kasia, what are you letting yourself off the hook on? ... And that is precisely ... returning to your own agency, trusting yourself. Nothing will break me, because I alone decide what will happen today.'
Find such a practice, whatever it may be ... At the beginning let it be small steps, and these small steps cause us to dare to take bigger and bigger ones.

