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Yeah, thanks! I only try to listen or accept what aligns with gurmat. Sometimes, another person trying to explain things helps a lot. But thank you. I love the response from the Sangat here. Hope the flower of love and devotion blossoms in my heart like you Sat Sangat. 🙏❤️

With Guru's grace I think I had a first experience of jaap entering the heart (wondering if this is what is meant by jaap in the hirda). With Guru's kirpa on most occasions the jaap travels between the Navel and my chest in an up and down motion as I breath. Was given bit of an extra push and it entered the heart literally on the left side. All of a sudden I could feel my heart pumping really strong as if I was having some kind of heart attack. The heart beat became totally synchronised with the jaap, to the point I couldn't recite jaap verbally anymore and became too aware of the heart pumping like it was going to explode. It wanted to speed up the jaap but I slowed my breathing down and the sensation began to reside.

I must admit the first time these new sensation takes place it can totally shake you because one has never experienced them before.

Not been on here for a long time, but I'll attempt to answer your question.....
A few reasons for the pause. 1st,  the pause is when you are neither breathing in or breathing out. it is a momentarily hold of breath. It makes sure you are listening. as in listening to the gurumantar.. when you pay attention to your focus(dhyian) at the moment you are pausing(holding breath), then you are focusing with more attention. .  just to add, a sniper or someone who is shooting a rifle or pistol at a target with precision, will, at the moment just before taking the shot, hold their breath and be in complete stillness.  In most sports, just before taking your snooker/pool shot or even a basket ball dunk, you will hold your breath at the decisive moment.. 
2nd, this pause or hold is your intro into getting to listen to the 'void'. For that is where the divine sounds will begin to appear.
3rd, We are in a world of duality. Duality came into existence when Waheguru blast(big bang) 'ong''emerged and creation was made. The 'singularity" of EK made the ONG, and KAR creation was made, hence "Ek ong-kar" .(see post below)  for example, we have Good-bad, dark-light, sun-moon, hot-cold etc..  The perfect place is to be neither left or right, but in the center. In the center, is the perfect balance, like a see-saw or scale when it's horizontal.  In similar fashion, amrit vela on a physical worldly level is when the moon's cooling energy is minimal and the sun's heat energy is beginning to emerge and at a point equivalent but opposite to the moon's.
 
 
 
Hope, the above helps you understand about duality and the importance of being still and neutral.
 
 

Sometimes people just talk cause they got lips. I'd worry about Jaapin Naam more than how. 

Here is the link to the playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTb7jL0rGZxu43U4qs8DjplTslXFg3XBQ&si=6tTJ3SS65R0KeqMK

I think it is basically called a box breathing.
 
Btw, one more thing that really helped me recently is I found a very short book titled "Two Talks on Japa" by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Two important things I've learned from the book are:
1. Why do we do jap or simran?
2. What is the significance of pause in simran? Had a very big question about this since I've been learning from PMKC sangat about pausing a bit between saying "Wah" and "Guru".
Highly recommend it.

I kind of struggled with the same. But I have figured that you could say Waheguru on inhalation and then again Waheguru on exhalation. Don't stress about this too much. It's all about love. As long as you remembering him with love, that's more than enough. If you're struggling with developing love and devotion like me then try to focus on the sound. Don't worry too much about how do you say it.
Would love to see how you're doing in your journey as well.

Where can I find this?

Thank you for sharing this. I am very new trying to be this path and always had a question about saas-grass simran vidhi because I always enjoyed the alternate way - saying Waheguru inhaling, pause and Waheguru exhaling - more than the traditional way. This video explains exactly that in first 2 minutes. I still don't know much about that but it did answer for me. Hopefully Sangat here will help me to continue on this path.