Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands
Gertrud Hirschi
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 1578631394
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Mudras--also playfully called "finger power points"--are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking, at any time and place. Schooled in the traditional knowledge of this eastern art of healing, well-known Swiss yoga teacher, Gertrud Hirschi, shows how these easy techniques can recharge personal energy reserves and improve quality of life. These mysterious healing gestures can calm the stress, aggravations, and frustrations of everyday life. Readers will learn how to:
- Apply these simple exercises to prevent illness and support the healing of a great variety of physical and emotional problems.
- Use mudras to promote spiritual development.
- Additionally intensify the effect with breathing exercises, a affirmations, visualizations, herbs, nutrition, music, and colors.
Also included are several full-body mudras and exercises to enhance any meditation and yoga practice.
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meditation we can go into our depths and come into contact with the Highest. Here we can ask, and the right answer always comes in the right way through another person, a book, a voice on the radio, a feeling, or in some other way, and at the right time. I could tell you lots interesting stories on this theme that I learned while seeking the wisdom of the mudras. This is almost a wonder! My husband recently remarked, “You are either the luckiest person on Earth or a witch!” But, obviously,
your left thumb along the inner edge of your right hand. Close your eyes. Focus on a part of the body that is weak or ill. Now imagine that a light is burning in the lower center of your body (at the height of the navel). Every time you exhale, direct the rays of light toward the respective part of the body. First let large, dark clouds of smoke (things that make you ill, pain, etc.) escape from the illuminated body part. Then concentrate solely on the light that slowly fills, illuminates, and
ordinary exercise this is call the Kegel exercise. Then pull in the abdominal wall (Uddiyana Bandha). And press the chin onto the larynx (Jalandhara Bandha). After a few seconds, release every tension, raise the chin, and inhale deeply. Repeat a number of times. Effect: The Maha Bandha can be used for a weak bladder, hemorrhoids, constipation, descended organs, weak digestion, flat breathing, or neck tension; it has a preventive effect on these symptoms or diseases. The brain energy is also
Specifically select just one or two. Practice these according to a time plan. Decide when, how long, and how often you want to do them every day. Or plan to fill both the usual and unpredictable times with them when you have to wait. Practice only these mudras over the next few days. The effects may occur immediately, especially if you have acute complaints or mood swings. But it may also be that the effects you hope for only occur after several days. For chronic complaints, it usually takes
nerves, and even makes me feel aggressive. Incidentally, if you have trouble taking the time to do chores around the house, try playing some snappy marches or hot rock music, or even techno, to bring fresh momentum into this bothersome situation! 7 Lutz Berger: “Die Magie der heilenden Klänge” in esotera 6/97, p. 27. MUDRAS AND COLOR Colors influence our minds and our lives on every level. In color therapy, various shades of color are specifically applied to regenerate the organs and glands,