Your Hands Have The Power To Heal – 10 Powerful Mudras

You can create different posture from your hands. They are called ‘mudras’. It is said that mudras can influence the physical, emotional and spiritual energies of your body. It’s a very common practice in the East, and they are used by spiritual leaders in both Hindu Dharma and Buddha Dharma. In the modern era, yogis and other meditation practitioners use various mudras.

There are more than 100 known mudras developed by various ancient Rishis and Yogis. Here are some of the most common 10 powerful mudras:

1. Gyan Mudra (Mudra of Knowledge)

How to do it: Use your ring finger to touch the thumb, and keep your other fingers straight out.
Benefits: Improves your creativity, memory, and knowledge. It brings clarity to thoughts and prevents insomnia.
Practice: You can do any time while sitting, standing or lying in bed.

2. Prithvi Mudra (Mudra of Earth)

How to do it: Use your ring finger and touch the thumb. Keep other fingers straight out.

Benefits: Increases life force, improves your physical and spiritual elements, expands your body functionality
Benefits: Practice: Can be done at anytime

3. Varuna Mudra (Mudra of water)

How to do it: Use your pinky finger to touch the thumb, and keep your other fingers straight out
Benefits: Helps to retain water, helps to keep your emotional state balanced, helps during cramps and constipation, while also regulates the menstrual cycle
Practice: Do it three times each day for 15 minutes

4. Vayu Mudra (Mudra of Air)

How to do it: Use your thumb and wrap it around the index finger. Keep the rest of the fingers straight.
Benefits: Helps during anxiety and stress. If you are impatient and indecisive, you can use it. 
Practice: Do it three times each day for 10-15 minutes

5. Shunya Mudra (Mudra of Emptiness)

How to do it: Use the tip of your thumb and wrap over the middle finger. Keep the rest of the fingers straight.
Benefits: If you have ear pains, you can use this mudra. It also helps to reduce dullness, boost your confidence and mental cognition.
Practice: Do it daily for 40 to 60 minutes. If you have ear pains, do it 4 to 5 minutes daily

6. Surya Mudra (Mudra of the Sun)

How to do it: Use the ring finger and bend it by using your thumb. Keep the rest of the fingers straight.

Benefits: It helps in stimulating the thyroid gland, improves your digestive mechanisms. It also helps in weight loss, reducing anxiety and stress. 

Practice: Do it twice daily for 5 to 15 minutes.

7. Prana Mudra (Mudra of Life)

How to do it: Use your ring and pinky fingers. Bend them both to meet the thumb. Your index and middle finger should be kept straight out.
Benefits: Improves life force, brings stability to your mind, body, and spirit. It also improves your immunity and motivation. It is sure to make you less lazy.
Practice: It can be done anytime.

8. Apana Mudra (Mudra of Digestion)

How to do it: Use your middle and ring fingers and bend it under the thumb. Keep your remaining fingers straight up.
Benefits: It regulates your excretory system and improves your bowel movements. It also helps in relieving constipation and piles.
Practice: Do it daily for 45 minutes

9. Apana Vayu Mudra (Mudra of the Heart)

How to do it: Use your index finger and bend it to touch the base of the thumb. Your middle and ring finger should bend to touch the tip of the thumb. Keep your pinky straight up.

Benefits: Improves your circulatory system. Has the capacity to heal your heart, especially the heartburns. It also can help in reducing gas. 

Practice: Do it two times a day for 15 minutes

10. Linga Mudra (Mudra of Heat)

How to do it: Use both your hands for this. Interlock them, except for your thumb of the left hand which should be pointing up. Use your right thumb and wrap it around your left thumb so that it touches the index finger of the right hand.

Benefits: It helps to stimulate the heat of the body, reduce phlegm and congestion. It is also good for your respiratory system.
 Practice: You can do it anytime, but don’t overdo it.

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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

As newborns, we enter the world by inhaling. In leaving, we exhale. (In fact, in many languages the word “exhale” is synonymous with “dying.”) Breathing is so central to life that it is no wonder humankind long ago noted its value not only to survival but to the functioning of the body and mind and began controlling it to improve well-being.

As early as the first millennium B.C., both the Tao religion of China and Hinduism placed importance on a “vital principle” that flows through the body, a kind of energy or internal breath, and viewed respiration as one of its manifestations. The Chinese call this energy qi, and Hindus call it prana (one of the key concepts of yoga).

A little later, in the West, the Greek term pneuma and the Hebrew term rûah referred both to the breath and to the divine presence. In Latin languages, spiritus is at the root of both “spirit” and “respiration.”

Recommendations for how to modulate breathing and influence health and mind appeared centuries ago as well. Pranayama (“breath retention”) yoga was the first doctrine to build a theory around respiratory control, holding that controlled breathing was a way to increase longevity.

In more modern times, German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz developed “autogenic training” in the 1920s as a method of relaxation. The approach is based partly on slow and deep breathing and is probably still the best-known breathing technique for relaxation in the West today. The contemporary forms of mindfulness meditation also emphasize breathing-based exercises.

In fact, every relaxation, calming or meditation technique relies on breathing, which may be the lowest common denominator in all the approaches to calming the body and mind. Research into basic physiology and into the effects of applying breath-control methods lends credence to the value of monitoring and regulating our inhalations and exhalations.

Yoga and meditation have inspired many of the breathing exercises used today. The benefits of controlled respiration were first theoretically posited centuries ago by the practitioners of pranayama yoga.

Mind under the Influence

Even a rudimentary understanding of physiology helps to explain why controlled breathing can induce relaxation. Everyone knows that emotions affect the body. When you are happy, for instance, the corners of your mouth turn up automatically, and the edges of your eyes crinkle in a characteristic expression. Similarly, when you are feeling calm and safe, at rest, or engaged in a pleasant social exchange, your breathing slows and deepens. You are under the influence of the parasympathetic nervous system, which produces a relaxing effect. Conversely, when you are feeling frightened, in pain, or tense and uncomfortable, your breathing speeds up and becomes shallower. The sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the body’s various reactions to stress, is now activated. Less well known is that the effects also occur in the opposite direction: the state of the body affects emotions. Studies show that when your face smiles, your brain reacts in kind—you experience more pleasant emotions. Breathing, in particular, has a special power over the mind.

This power is evident in patients who have breathing difficulties. When these difficulties are sporadic and acute, they can trigger panic attacks; when they are chronic, they often induce a more muted anxiety. It is estimated that more than 60 percent of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have anxiety or depressive disorders. These disorders probably stem in part from concerns about the consequences of the disease (what could be more distressing than struggling to breathe?), but purely mechanical factors may contribute as well: the difficulty these patients experience often leads to faster breathing, which does not necessarily improve the quality of their oxygen supply but can aggravate their physical discomfort and anxiety.

Rapid breathing can contribute to and exacerbates panic attacks through a vicious circle: fear triggers faster breathing, which increases fear. In 2005 Georg Alpers, now at the University of Mannheim in Germany, and his colleagues observed significant and unconscious hyperventilation when people who had a driving phobia took their vehicles on the highway (where they might not be able to pull over if they become agitated).

Whether anxiety derives from breathing problems or other causes, it can be eased by a number of breathing techniques derived from traditional Eastern approaches (see “Six Techniques for Relieving Stress”). For example, “follow your breath,” an exercise that focuses attention on breathing, is one of the first steps in mindfulness meditation, whereas alternate nostril breathing comes from yoga. Combining reassuring thoughts with breathing is an approach incorporated into sophrology, a technique that emphasizes harmony of body and mind and that borrows exercises from many approaches, including yoga and mindfulness.

Overall, research shows that these techniques reduce anxiety, although the anxiety does not disappear completely. Breathing better is a tool, not a panacea. Some methods have been validated by clinical studies; others have not. But all of those I describe in this article apply principles that have been proved effective. They aim to slow, deepen or facilitate breathing, and they use breathing as a focal point or a metronome to distract attention from negative thoughts.


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Do you suffer from severe headaches? Here are some unique ways to cure migraine

Headaches have become a very common occurrence in today’s high-stress environment. We are all so busy that we hardly have any time to indulge in self-care and for those of you who suffer from a migraine you know the drill. Most people today are so busy that they don’t even know that the severe headaches they suffer with might be a migraine. It is vital to spot the signs and see a doctor for treatment if you suffer from migraine. Other than this, identifying your triggers and some home remedies may be a great help. But if you don’t have the time for all that you can resort to some of these remedies to cure a migraine.

1. Hydrate

Dehydration can cause a headache. Have a glass of water or juice in order to hydrate. That may reduce your headache instantly.

2. Dark room

Too many lights and too much noise can trigger a severe migraine. Let your sense and body relax. Lie down in a dark room and avoid any lights or noise. Use earplugs to block out the noise and keep your phone and laptop away.

3. Herbal tea

A cup of the right herbal tea can help your mind and body relax. A cup of green tea or chamomile tea can do wonders for your blasting headache. Herbal teas can be a great way to cure pain. Ginger tea is also a great herbal tea to cure your headache.

4. Massage
Massaging the head can get the blood flowing and improve the blood circulation which in turn relaxes your body and mind and relieves pain. A slight massage can help cure your migraine.

5. Hot and cold application
Naturopathy is a great way to treat migraine. Keep an ice pack or a cold cloth on the neck and soak your feet in warm water. This helps the blood circulation and helps the blood flow in the right direction and relaxes your body. This can relieve a headache.

6. Lavender oil

If scents are not a trigger for you, a little bit of lavender essential oil can help you relax and provide pain relief. Lavender oil is known to relax our senses and our body and it is a great way to relieve a blasting migraine.

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7. Yoga

Yoga or meditation can also help your migraine. Yoga requires you to practice breathing exercises and stretching. This gets the blood flowing and releases hormones that relax your mind and relieve the pain.

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Trick to eat less

How to trick yourself to eat less. Well using a smaller plate makes your mind think there's more food and it limits what you can pile onto your plate.

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Heartfulness meditation for living by heart

Tucked away from the hustle bustle of city life is a sprawling 1,400 acre campus with people craving for internal peace flocking to the global headquarters of Heartfulness system of meditation.

Located in Chegur village of Ranga Reddy district, about 50 km from Hyderabad, a drought-prone landscape for several decades is now transforming into a lush green eco-system with environmentally self-sustained world-class facility.

Home to variety of trees, many of which are almost extinct, Kanha Shativanam, as the area is called, offers a perfect setting for those practicing Heartfulness, an approach to the Raja Yoga system of meditation called Sahaj Marg.

Heartfulness meditation is a set of practices for self-development that helps a person find inner calm and stillness. Offered at no cost and without any dogma, it is the ancient art of yogic transmission or 'pranahuti'.

"The effect of Heartfulness meditation with pranahuti on brainwave patterns, heart rate and blood pressure, vagus nerve activity and telomere length on chromosomes, among other things, are being supported by research. Many feel the effects of transmission in their first few Heartfulness meditation sessions and are often surprised at their own ability to plunge into an absorbed meditative state," says the Heartfulness Institute.

"Heartfulness is all about living by the heart. Mind, body and the heart form beautiful rhythmic triangle. The voice of heart always dominates over the mind. Though feeble but it always dominate in the end. Mind may tell you something but heart will always guide you in right direction. I don't say mind always misguides. It can also be in sync with the heart. This is a rarity," he told as people from various walks of life sat in pin-drop silence waiting for a meditation session with the guru.

According to him, people who are egoists and obsessed with desires can't listen to the heart. 
"Through meditation we sensitise the awareness. We sensitise in a conscience that little voice. It is one part of Heartfulness method. Most of us listen to heart but very few follow it. It needs little bit of commitment, wisdom and some courage.

"Most people come here is to find peace. Some sort of calmness. That is also very small goal. If we approach god with peace of mind, of course he is benevolent and generous he will grant you peace. But if you ask Himself, then peace will automatically come. One has to be wiser in asking. We narrow down our vision and say I want only peace. The ultimate goal should be to one with Him," he added.

According to him, even to have a minimum thing like peace of mind one needs to meditate.
Heartfulness is offering 'Dhyanotsav' a free of cost three-day master class wellness fest focusing on teaching techniques of Heartfulness relaxation, meditation and cleaning. It will be held in cities all over India.

For students and teachers of yoga, he recently launched Heartfulness Yoga that integrates body, mind and soul in the true spirit of Ashtanga Yoga. It not only teaches classical yoga asanas but also the ultimate goal of Yoga, which is oneness through meditation.

Heartfulness Institute, which had its headquarters in Chennai, shifted to Hyderabad because of its central location. Daaji laid special emphasis on developing green cover as he believes plants have a much greater capacity to retain the subtle vibrations of yogic transmission compared to human beings.

In less than four years, the barren area has undergone transformation with the plantation of two lakh tress. A six lakh sapling nursery is acting as a supply for the plantation in the region, while 1,000 trees saved and translocated from faraway places resurrected here. Buoyed by the success, Heartfulness Institute is now working to develop rain forest.

Daaji said that every year they want to plant one lakh trees and once this space runs out they will take up plantation in villages, ponds and forests.

People voluntarily contribute in terms of work, time and funds. People working at Amazon, Google, Apple, Cisco and other corporate giants voluntarily participate in plantation.

The facility will unveil its meditation hall next year. It promises to be one of the largest in the world by accommodating one lakh 'Abhyasis '(practitioners of Heartfulness) at one go.

The entire facility is completely self-sustaining with solar energy systems meeting the power needs.
The facility is equipped with temporary and permanent living spaces to support housing of large gathering often in excess of 35,000 practitioners who travel from across the globe to take part in mass meditation sessions while staying over three to five days.

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