Mudra Yoga in Your Hands

Mudras are symbolic gestures that, as asanas, create resonances with certain subtle energies of the macrocosm.

Mudras are practiced mostly with the hands but also with certain parts of the body.

"Mudra is a term with many meanings. It is used to signify a
gesture, a mystic position of the hands, a seal, or even a
symbol. However, there are eye positions, body postures,
and breathing techniques that are called mudras. These symbolic finger,
eye, and body postures can vividly depict certain states or processes of consciousness.
Conversely, specific positions can also lead to the states of consciousness
that they symbolize. What does this mean in concrete terms?
For example, a person who frequently and fervently does the gesture of
fearlessness, which can often be seen in the depiction of Indian deities, will
also be freed from fearfulness with time. So mudras engage certain areas
of the brain and/or soul and exercise a corresponding influence on them.
However, mudras are also effective on the physical level. I discuss this in
the section called "Mudras and Other Hand Therapies."
We can effectively engage and influence our body and our mind by
bending, crossing, extending, or touching the fingers with other fingers.
Isn't this wonderful?"

(excerpt from the book Mudra Yoga in your hands by Gertrude Hirschi)

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Did you know that your body is a road map to your past?

This an interesting article i got from an e-mail and thought to share to everyone might be interested. Enjoy!

Did you know that your body is a road map to your past lives? Here is how to read that map!

All of the following items on your present body are tantalyzing clues to your past lives. The larger and darker the scars, the more recent the past life. The more prominent these items are in your body, the more recent the damage... that is crying out to be healed. Here is how your past is still present in your body.

* Freckles-Albinos: Freckles (dark spots) and albinos (white sports) are often located where you have been burned by fire in past lives. Those who suffer from burns will tell you that fire leaves its mark on the skin permanently. Freckles and albinos are usually signs that you need to heal fire karma from past lives.

* Skin Depressions: Skin depressions (where the skin is pitted, grooved, and rough) whether caused by injury or diseases (like smallpox, chicken pox, and syphillis) are often where you have been wounded in past lives. They are reminders of the issues from past lives that you have come to heal in the present lifetime.

* Moles-Warts: Moles and warts are often located at the site of non-fatal disease lesions from past lives. Even though moles and warts have present life origins, they tend to gather around sites of past life trauma. Especially if you are having trouble in healing them, moles and warts may signal the need for past life healing.

* Cysts-Lumps: Cysts and lumps are often located at the site of fatal disease lesions from past lives. For example, hard cysts-lumps in the hands, feets, and lymph nodes can be reminders of a traumatic death by plague in past lives. Especially those cysts and lumps which "grow back" may signal the need for past life healing.

* Tumors: Tumors are often located at the site of fatal wounds inflicted by weapons in past lives. Tumors are the ultimate indicator that a past life is screaming out for healing in the present. Tumors usually demand a person's attention, forcing them to take action to save their life now, even if it means healing their past lives.