Mudra

I had heard the word but that’s about it. Yesterday at the Annual health check-up, one lady spoke about Mudras and their healing values. The very beginning attracted me a lot.


I was thrilled to know how the five fingers are considered as the representation of the 5 tatwas: Thumb (fire), index (Wind), middle (Akash-sky), Ring (Prithvi-earth) and Little (Water). I might have known them sometime but had completely lost track of.

The fingers have got some 4000 nerve-endings on them.

The mudras consist of the touching of specific fingers and stretching the rest of the others. My take was that by stretching the other fingers we actually exercise the nerve-endings. Specific mudras have specific curative values.

I learnt about Gyan Mudra, prana, vayu, apaan, surya, shunya, linga, prithvi, Varun mudra among others. I found that exercising with the fingers is comparatively easy.

I am going to give it a try for the next three months. Let me see what comes out of it.

I’ll keep you posted of the results.

Quite a few sites are there. Just Google Mudra and go for it.