Thursday, August 21, 2008

Yoga Excersice part - II

Isn't it wonderful that a mudra can have so many positive effects? Not only can we use mudras to influence all of our body regions and functions, but every act of touching and every movement of the hands has its special effect. Doing handicrafts, playing an instrument, washing the hands, or massaging—all of these acts have long-lasting effects.

  • Particularly when you wash your hands, you can squeeze
    them vigorously and massage them at the same time: Press the
    four fingers of one hand together with the other hand and
    turn the fingers you are holding to both sides. Then make
    fists, open the hands again, and spread the fingers. Or vigorously
    rub both palms together.
  • Or cross your fingers with each other, turn the palms outward,
    and stretch your arms. This will refresh you, improve
    your breathing, and strengthen your heart
  • If you sit at a desk for a longer period of time and your neck
    becomes tense or painful, use the thumb and index finger
    (with the thumb touching the inside of the hand) to grasp each
    one of the eight finger-webs at the root of the fingers. Massage
    the point beneath it and pull the web to the front at least 6
    times. When you do this, be sure to be in an upright and
    relaxed posture.
  • If you place the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of
    one hand on the longitudinal grooves of the back of the other
    hand and gently massage back and forth, this will have a regulating
    effect on the blood pressure.
  • A pleasant game to improve your mood, refresh you in a holistic
    way, and stimulate every bodily function is hand tapping (it
    is hard to stay serious when you do this, and children can't seem to get enough of it). Clap or tap your hands at least eight
    times in rhythm. At first, clap in the usual way. Then let the
    hands hang down and clap the backs of the hands together,
    then the backs of the fingers, the fingertips, the outer side of
    the hand, the inner side of the hand, the wrists, the knuckles,
    etc. The only limit is your imagination. Now you will notice
    that depending on what you are tapping or how you are clapping,
    a different tone is created. Use your hands to play your
    own drum concert. Drumming has been used since time
    immemorial to initiate healing processes. Today, people are
    using it for this same purpose again.

With a bit of imagination, you can put together your own program of hand
exercises. You can't do anything wrong here if you carry out every movement
slowly and consciously.
The following illustrations will show you various traditions that
work with hand energy. This isn't meant to confuse you, but to show you
how tremendously diverse this system is. If you take an exact look at it, you
will even come across logical inconsistencies. These occur because the individual
systems engage various levels, connected like threads that get lost in
mysterious unfathomableness—and probably interconnect there.

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