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The practice of Yoga as a healing tool is achieved by using the techniques as forms of meditation and focus. The following are some of the more common mudras, although some schools of thought subscribe to a coffer of 500 possible mudras. These are only a few examples. If you are interested in practicing mudras, search on the internet and check your book store and you will have a plethora of mudras to practice!

Develop Your Ability To Meditate

Develop Your Ability To Meditate The challenge for many is the act of being as still as necessary to facilitate the healing of the mudras. This mudra is specifically for developing the discipline to begin to meditate. It is intended to coordinate with all of one's chakras, and is best accompanied by the mantra Sat Nam, which is translated Truth Is God's Name, One in Spirit. Each word is to be repeated mentally with the beat of the pulse. This allows the practitioner an active way to ease into meditation by balancing action and inaction. Thus, it enables one to begin meditating within a context of being mentally active in a way that appropriately limits the busy mind.

Sit with a straight back. With the four fingers of the right hand together, feel the pulse in each fingertip and the wrist. Palms are held together, right palm down and left palm up, laying the heel of the right palm in the left palm. The eyes are closed. Concentrate on the Third Eye center, the chakra in the middle of the forehead. Practice this mudra for three minutes daily for a week, with a goal of preparing self for the stillness of the next level of meditation.

Seeking Guidance

Seeking Guidance The path to stillness is challenging to find, but a simple reaching out for guidance gives one another beginning point. In this mudra, the practitioner asks for divine guidance to accept the self-healing the Yogic practice offers. The mudra for guidance is connected to the crown chakra at the top of the head. Before beginning, it is important to focus one's energy at that point of the body.

Put your hands together in front of your chest. Press your pinky fingers together with palms arcing toward the sky to form a two handed cup. Leave a small opening between the sides of the little fingers. Focus the eyes at the tip of the nose, toward the palms. Breathe long, deep and slow breaths into your palms. Receive energy in the palms of your hands. Looking into them will send healing power into your mind and help you access divine guidance.

Become Gentler

Become Gentler Sometimes it is difficult to approach meditation and Yoga due to moods or preoccupations with personal problems. When we are reacting to our thoughts without true awareness of the need to be gentle with oneself, we are blocking the flow of the universal love that mudras can help access. Therefore, it is essential that during moments of stress we take care of ourselves with actions that facilitate gentleness. The following mudra is intended to reinforce the self-love that gentle actions bring.

Sit with a straight back. Make fists and bring the outer (pinky) side of each fist to either side of your temples. Press slightly against the temples and part the fingers. Close your eyes. Then make fists again, pressing against the temples. Breath long, deep breaths, all the while reciting the mantra Hari Ong Hari Ong Tat Sat, which translates as God in Action, the Ultimate Truth. Repeat mentally with each breath.

Evoking Inner Strength

Evoking Inner Strength The purpose behind the act of yoga is to develop inner strength. The following mudra is one that allows a strengthening of the abilities to meditate. It allows the body to connect with the power chakra through the solar plexus.

Curl your index fingers and curl your thumbs over them. Straighten the other three fingers. Right hand should be slightly under the left hand, middle two finger pads touching the joints of the left hand. Put your hands in front of your chest. The curled finger would be just about the same height as your nipples, and fingers cross right below the breast line. Keep your elbows up and out to the sides so that your forearms and hands make lines parallel to the ground. Inhale through the nose, shape your lips into an O, and exhale with a whistle. Repeat several times and then relax and feel the vitality within you.

Facing Fear

Facing Fear The inner strength of the preceding mudra can be further reinforced by the following mudra, which is specifically for helping one overcome fears. This mudra also connects one through the solar plexus to the strength of universal love through the third power chakra. It also brings the crown and third eye chakras into the equation, connecting the body to the universal flow of extrinsic energy and bringing it within.

Sit with spine straight, bend your left arm at the elbow, and hold your hand slightly in front of you with the palm turned upward in front of your navel, thumb outward. Bend your right arm and hold your hand in front of your right shoulder with the palm turned outward, fingers and thumb straight up toward the sky. Concentrate on the Third Eye. Breathe slowly and deeply. Visualize yourself protected. Inhale positive feelings, exhale fear and let it go.

Divine Worship

Divine Worship This mudra helps you get in touch with God, the Divine Higher Power, and developing respectfulness for the Universal Creator. Realizing that everyone is an expression of this One Self who is having many lives and forms and experiences brings you in touch with what is true and what remains, long after form and experience has passed away into the ethers from where it came. Being in tune with God is the pre-requisite to being in tune with yourself and other, and achieving inner peace.

Relax your mind, your emotions and let go of your human condition for a little while, concentrate on the Third Eye center. Be at peace and put your hands together in front of your chest in the prayer position. Commune with God within yourself and let go of awareness of all outside sounds and distractions. If it helps, simply follow the rhythm of your natural breathing.
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