Mudras in yoga, the meaning and science behind it
Word mudra literally means “a seal”. It is a certain position of the hand. Mudras are a subtle science of arranging your body in a certain way. The way your system functions can be altered just by changing the position of your palm. This is a whole science by itself which essentially involves the geometry and circuitry of the body. By holding a certain mudra, the energy tends to move in a particular way. In yoga, there are systems where you can regulate your breath in a certain way, with certain counts and proportions. By doing this, you can pinpoint your energy to any cell in the body if you want.
“When you listen to yourself, everything come naturally. It come from in, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.”satisfied client
Mudras: opening up the cosmos
Hands are capable of many things apart from eating and doing physical work. You can make these hands in such a way that if you move it here, you can make something happen somewhere else and pinpoint it wherever you want it because these hands are the instrument to everything. This is like the control panel for everything.
Either you can keep this human system as a small little human being or you can enlarge this into a tremendous possibility. Whichever way it is, the control panel is still here. If you do the right things with this system, you can do miraculous things for life. This will take a lot of exploration, and a lot of sadhana is involved.
The many kinds of mudras
There are hundreds of mudras, some for health, some for well-being, some for creating certain other types of processes. For different aspects of life, there are different mudras. In Indian culture, for everything they identified a particular asana, a mudra, and a particular type of breathing, so that a human -being brings out the best within himself. This still lives everywhere across the culture, but it is being practiced without the necessary understanding and awareness.
