Complete guide to Mudras- benefits and use in yoga
Mudras can put you at ease and make your life better. If you wish to understand why the mudras work or the purpose of mudras you might need to understand these at a deeper level than we ordinarily do. Most often we have to understand everything we do before we do it so that we do not doubt the process.
In this fast-paced world, we are short of a true elixir of life. If we have to find out a way then we have to look for something than what seems ordinary. Mudras and their daily practice seem to be one good way of preserving ourselves where we are slowly losing ourselves.
- Prana Mudra
The Prana Mudra involves bringing the Earth element and water element in close proximity to the fire element so touch the tips of the fingers together.
With this mudra and its daily practice, you can benefit in a few ways;
- It can help reduce hunger pangs and whenever you are hungry and don’t have food around, try to control it as long as you don’t have enough food.
- You can get a good night’s sleep and improves your body’s immunity.
- With its help, you can reduce vitamin and other deficiencies in your body.
- Energizes our body and also puts our internal organs in motion.
- Apan Mudra
This mudra when practised regularly for 20 minutes can help you in a lot of ways.
To know how to use it, bring the tip of your middle finger, ring finger and thumb close together. Touch each other slightly and then wait for 20 minutes before releasing them back.
How do you gain from this mudra?
- With this mudra, you can easily detoxify the body.
- Those suffering from heart disease can relieve themselves of it.
- People with stomach issues can also benefit from the use of Apan mudra.
- It helps cure constipation, and piles and aids with diabetes, kidney ailments and dental problems.
- Varun Mudra
The mudra helps people to make the skin suppler than it remains generally. Apart from it, there are other benefits of the Varun Mudra.
Touch the tip of your thumb with the tip of the little finger and keep it that way for as long as you can.
The benefits of the posture and the purpose of the mudra are just not limited to skin benefits but also improve the softness and lustre of the skin.
It helps balance fluid communication and balances the water element of the body.
It will also impact your mental clarity making you think clearly.
- Surya Mudra
It controls the weight and obesity of the body and balances the fire element of the body.
Touch the first phalanx with your thumb of the ring finger as you pull it towards the mound of the thumb.
With daily practice, you can gain complete control and also improve your vision. It helps treat loss of appetite, indigestion, cold and cough-related issues, and digestive issues and also improves hand, feet and limb coldness issues.
- Gyan Mudra
It is known as the meditation mudra and when meditating this posture can help individuals in the best possible ways.
Here you will have to try to balance the tip of the index finger by touching it with the tip of the thumb. Stretch the other three fingers out and hold it for 20 minutes at a stretch.
This posture is the king of all postures and can help you immensely in fighting different kinds of problems.
A few of its benefits would include;
- Stimulating the air element in the body so that there is proper oxygenation of the blood within that reaches every part of the body.
- It increases your memory, and stamina and improves your will to work.
- Your nervous system functions very well and the pituitary gland stimulation happens automatically with this mudra.
- It builds mental power and sharpens the brain increasing its activity level immensely.
- Psychological disorders like anger, stress, anxiety and depression can also be fought to a large extent.
- You can even cure insomnia with the help of this mudra.
Do not perform this mudra when lying down and this is the only caution with the practice of this mudra.
What other mudras can you practice?
Apart from these, you can also practice the ling mudra to generate heat within the peripheral organs.
You can practice joining your hands together every day bringing the entire Universe together.
We all are made of five elements and in each of us, the element amount varies. In some people, water is completely missing whereas in others the fire element is missing.
To balance all of them touching the tip of each finger with its opposite same finger allows the completion of a circle and in that way, you can reach equilibrium each time you fold your hands together. In this way, you also bring together the world in you and in the world, you leave a bit of you.
Some postures we practice without knowing in our everyday lives and yet, we often doubt the purpose of these mudras. Most often, the mudras are designed to help us tap the sleeping energy within our bodies.
The energy within is the only thing in us that works and that remains. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed yet it can change its form from one to the other. Practising the right postures can actually heal us and the release of this energy creates abundance within us from which we benefit in the best possible ways.
Read all about the mudras before you actually start practising them and ensure you do not forget that the purpose of mudras is to make you and not break you in any way.
There are other mudras that you can practice regularly and benefit from them but these are some basic ones. Ensure you record each and keep them together to understand more about them to practice them whenever you want.
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