Wellness with Mudras - A Step towards the Divine - A summary - Part 1

Source: Internet, Gurus, Books

Pranaams to all the Gurus and the Divine!!
Shri Gurubhyo Namaha!!

Mudras – An introduction – Basics and Advanced - Part 1

For Mudras - A summary - Part 2 - click here Mudras Summary - Part 2

Links to YouTube session - 

YouTube link - Elaborate Mudra session highlighting various scriptural aspects

Day 1 - Mudra Vigyan Introduction

Day 2 - Mudra Vigyan - Daily 6 mudras

Day 3 - Mudra Vigyan - Therapeutic

YouTube link - Exclusive for six daily mudras

Mudras - Six daily mudras - Short video

What is one's true nature? - Joy, Happiness, Bliss!! Anything that gives us joy, we dwell on it and anything that creates distress, we stay away from that! 

Let us hold onto that bliss and start our journey into mudras!!

Formation of the universe - the Pancha mahabhootas - Panchikarana - Big Bang - light, heat and sound, and then, therefrom space, air, fire, water, earth - grossest to subtlest in that order.

Quintuplication – five-fold – fission and fusion - Quantum physics – Panchi karana – Big Bang theory. Prapancha, Bhuta Bhautika, (Vatapi ganapathim song - anu pallavi reference)

Concept of Panchatvam Gathaha - meaning death - actual meaning merging into the 5 elements.
Brahmanda and Pindanda (Macrocosm and Microcosm)

And so the statement - Pancha bhootatmakam idam shareeram| Pancha bhootatmakam idam jagat||

Pancha Bhootha in our body

1) Earth - muscles, tissues, organs, etc.

2) Water - All the fluids in the body

3) Fire - Food from earth invokes fire energy

4) Air - Breath

5) Space - We connect with space when we sleep.

Why Mudras?

To stay with the self and heal the self by the self, thus taking that first step towards the divine.
Let us take a look at the meaning of svastha -

Sva meaning "self"; stha meaning "staying" (as in sat-chit-anand).

So svastha literally means "staying in the self"!

Any deviation from that leads to misalignment with the universe and so roga(disease) emerges.

Imbalance in Macrocosm Vs Microcosm – An analysis

Alignment with cosmic Geometry - Trikarana Shuddhi (oneness in thought, word and action)

Mudras – Mudra = Mudh - delight or pleasure or bliss + Dravay - to draw forth

Fingers of our hands are a divine pharmacy by itself. All the gifts of nature like mountains, rivers, fresh air, space etc. are available at our finger tips also. These fingers act as switch for controlling the Bio-electric circuit – Human body emits electro-magnetic waves creating an energy body called aura brightness – neural – electric impulses – yin, yang and chi – similar to ida, pingala and sushoomna – prana going around healing the body. 

This bio-electric energy escapes from the body outwards through nose, lips, ears, fingers and toes. 

Man is capable of enormous energy and is capable of calling upon the universal energy too, that too at his finger tips.

Mudras types –
1) Hasta Mudras
     a) Health
     b) Spiritual – Namaste, Shankha, Surabhi
2) Mana Mudras – Boochari, Nasikagra, Shambhavi, Kechari
3) Kaya Mudras – Asanas
4) Bandha Mudras – lock – mool, udiyan, Jalandhar and mahamudra (Tri bandh)
5) Aadhara Mudras – Oli mudras – potency mudras – Ashwini, Vajroli, Sahajoli

General Instructions:
1) Five fingers to be used for mudra
2) increase/decrease/balance element - tonify or sedate (tonify/increase - tip of thumb touches base of finger, sedate/decrease - thumb covers finger and the finger tip touches base of thumb)
3) Mudra on both hands preferably and other fingers straight and relaxed (not stiff)
4) Any time except immediately after lunch
5) Age factor - All above 6 years can do
6) chanting of mantra preferred
7) Light, gentle touch between tips
8) Therapeutic mudra for 50 min spread through the day + Prana Mudra for 10 min - use band/tapes, if required
9) minimum – 8 to 15 days for result
10) Discontinue health mudras once back to good health - works like antibiotics - stop practising once cured
11) No Akash mudra when walking - detoxifies, throws out metabolic waste and also negative emotions
12) Pregnant women not to try any mudra except after nine months, the foll. can be held - Jnana mudra (memory of the child is enhanced), Dhyana mudra (instills calmness in child and mother) and Apana mudra (eases normal labour)

6 daily mudras: 

(1) Prithvi mudra 

(2) Apana-vayu mudra 

(3) Shoonya-Vayu mudra 

(4) Prana mudra (immunity and Reset)

(5) Jnana mudra

(6) Dhyana mudra

Important mudras for Aum chanting and vibhagiya breathing (Sectional breathing) -

1) chin mudra - udara shvasa - abdominal breathing - Akaara chanting - Jagrat sthithi
2) Chinmaya mudra - Uru shvasa - chest breathing - Ukaara chanting - Svapna sthithi
3) Adi mudra - Greeva shvasa - neck breathing (Clavicular) - Makaara chanting - shushupti sthithi
4) Brahma mudra - All 3 above to be felt - all 3 stages together - OM chanting followed by silence 

Preparation of hands before holding mudras or once every morning –

1) Make cup formation with both palms and bring them close and take them away to connect with the energy in the body 

2) Fist tightly open-close, open-close, open-close - 10 times

3) Clap every finger on finger, thumb on thumb, palm on palm – 30 times 

4) Rub palms together same as above - finger on finger, thumb on thumb, palm on palm – 7 seconds atleast

5) Activate palm chakra

Regular exercise for sense organ endings -

Look at all your extremities - scalp, eyes ears, nose-tip, lips, finger and toe tips -

1) roll your tongue - 10 times clockwise, anti clockwise

2) massage with index fingers both sides - mouth, nose ears, eyes, palms

3) ears - massage, twist, bend

4) eyes - massage on all sides

5) nose tip - pragna chakra

6) fingers, toes, palm, feet micro circulation

7) If possible, bend your head down and start combing touching all the points on your scalp. If not, find a partner and do it for each other or simply go to a parlor for a head massage once a week.

Major Mudras discussed in Mudra session –
1) Chin mudra, chinmaya mudra, Adi mudra, Brahma mudra 

2) Pancha mukhi – powerful – strengthens all elements - 2 variations

3) Mushti – combination for decreasing all elements – depression, constipation
4) Samana – digestive fire
5) Sahaj shankha – 10 nadis are activated – slip disc, piles etc
6) Chakra mudra – for strengthening internal organs
7) Surabhi – For correcting imbalance in hormonal glands – also wish fulfilling mudra – 10 min+21 days + Gayatri + Tulasi – Aura increases, doshas are balanced
8) Pooshana mudra – right hand – middle finger on index finger nail + thumb (chronic case – ring finger on little finger nail + thumb); Left hand – ring finger on middle finger nail + thumb
9) Hridaya mudra – index finger and thumbs free and detached; middle finger bent and back of the middle fingers touching each other as palms come close; ring finger and little finger tips touch each other – cures disorders of blood circulation and eases breathing.
10) Brahmara mudra - for curing allergies and removing side effects of antibiotics like nose blocking, breathing problems, intestine problems - combination mudra - (Akash mudra + vayu mudra) together

Brahmara Mudra

11) Vishahara mudra - aka Aditya mudra (increasing earth element - thumb at the base of ring finger) - to remove the side effects of allopathy drugs - kind of detoxification - all emotions on account of such negative energies like fear, bad habits, unpleasant memories etc. also are removed. Vishahara Mudra
12) Nadi Balancing mudra - to balance nadis, cures one sided headache, removes nose block
13) Kaki mudra - to activate sushumna nadi
14) kaki pranayam with pancha mukhi mudra - to cool body, live long disease free
15) Agochari pranayam - for pratyahara - controlling the senses 

Health issues mudra
1) Fever due to cold – surya mudra + pankaja mudra+ prana mudra

Note: how to identify cold due to cold or cold due to heat? - observe your breathing - if left nostril is severely blocked then it is cold due to cold and if right nostril is severely blocked, then it is cold due to heat
2) General fever – prithvi + pankaja + prana
3) Knee pain – Sandhi, vayu, varuna, prana
4) Back pain – meru danda mudra, vayu surabhi mudra, prana - Age related back pain and For stress related Back Pain
5) BP high or low – Dhyana, kubera, prana,– 15 min each + vyana – 50 min
6) Insomnia – Jnana, Shakti, Shoonya, Prana
7) Menopause – Shankha, Surabhi, Yoni, Jalodara nashaka, Prana
8) Periods problems – Yoni, surabhi, jalodara nashaka, prana
9) Blocked ear – linga, vayu shoonya, karna rogantaka pranayama
10) Spondylitis – ganapa, chakra, samana, shoonya vayu, prana
11) Constipation – apana, apana vayu, ashwini, yog mudra
12) Diabetes – apana, chakra, jnana, rudra, prana
13) Head ache – apana vayu, Namaste, surya vyana (mahasiras mudra – index+middle+thumb and ring finger down to root of thumb) Prana
14) Piles – sahaj shankha, prana
15) Pitta – jala_surabhi, prana
16) Diarrhea – Apana, Jalodhara nashaka

Important points to note –
Linga mudra not for acidity/ only till problem heals – drink lots of juices and water as this mudra dehydrates body
Rudra mudra (Ring finger tip+index finger tip join to thumb tip) - ruler of manipura chakra – fire – activates Manipur chakra
Garuda mudra – not for BP patients

Sanjeevani pranayam - for expanding chest and boosting immunity - Sanjeevani Pranayam

Slokas chanted on both days with their meanings:

• Day 1 - 
• Commence with Om Sahana vavatu
• Conclude with Om Asatho Maa

• Day 2 -
• Commence with Guru Sloka
• Conclude with 
• Shanti Mantra and
• Sarvesham and 
• Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha

Day 1 - Topics covered

1) sahana vavatu, Om shanti shanti shanti - detailed discussion 

2) Panchikarana (Quintuplication) - bhuta bhautika, Prapancha - Shabda Brahma, Omkaara

3) Imbalances in five elements - effect in macrocosm and microcosm

4) Immense power in each of us - bio electric power - how it escapes from one - finger, toe, lip and nose tips - also how this immense power manifests in times of anger, fear, love and passion

5) Five elements at your finger tips - balance, increase and decrease, preparing hands for mudra and instructions

6) Five elements in your body 

7) Pancha Prana and pancha upa prana

8) combination mudras - Apana vayu mudra and shoonya vayu mudra

9) introduction to naadis, ida, pingala and sushumna nadi 

10) conclude Day 1 with sloka (asatho ma) and meaning 

Day 2 - Topics covered

1) Commence session with Guru sloka - reason for breathe in and chant after that

2) Revision

3) Daily 6 mudras

4) Health mudras 

5) Therapeutic mudras - fever, fever due to cold, knee pain, back pain, mudra for allergy 

6) conclude with Aum kara in stages and mudras at each stage

7) sloka (shanti mantra and sarveshaam)

References –

• Internet
• Mudras & Health Perspectives by Suman Chiplunkar - Flipkart
• Therapeutic Mudras list - disease wise
• Mudras & Health Perspectives book by Suman Chiplunkar - on Amazon
• Science of yoga mudras by K Rangaraja iyengar Prof G S Mudambadithaya
• The science of yoga mudras by Rangaraja Iyengar - on Google Books - internet version
• The science of yoga mudras by Rangaraja Iyengar - Sapna Online
• For Mudras - A summary - Part 2 - click here Mudras Summary - Part 2
• Fingers as Doctor by R Pasukkanna

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