What is yoga Mudra its benefits and how it works

Have you ever listened about yoga mudra? This is not much famous as Asanas and Pranayam but it is very effective and easy to do and if you want to know something about yoga mudra you are in the right place and I will tell you about what is yoga mudra and what are the benefits of doing yoga mudra and how it works.

Our body is made up of five elements Air, water, fire, earth and sky and our five fingers have the ability to balancing the five elements in the body if anyone element gets unbalanced in the body can cause many diseases.

The meaning of mudra is the attitude, it is the ancient technique of yoga used by the Indian sages for balancing the five elements in the body and have many more benefits and ability to treat any disease even some specific mudras can change your attitude and behavior also, but it needs some long time to change human behavior around 6 months sitting daily 20-30 minutes in any specific mudra, it boosts up your mind’s thinking and makes you spiritual.

How it works

As I mentioned above, our body is the union of five elements and our fingers represent those elements (The Thumb for Fire, Index finger for Air, The Middle finger for Space, The Ring finger for Earth, The smallest finger for Water.)

When your finger representing an element is brought into contact with the thumb, that element is brought into balance. Therefore the disease caused by the imbalance of that element gets cured. Yoga Mudras starts electromagnetic current or energy within the body with your every breath which balances various combinations of elements in your body and makes you healthy.

5 most commonly used yoga mudras.

1- Gyan Mudra

Doing Gyan Mudra increases our memory and intelligence and People who have diseases like headache, insomnia, they get a lot of benefits by doing Gyan Mudra.

2-Apaan mudra

By using this mudra, constipation, gas, kidney and all diseases of the intestines are removed. It removes toxins from our body.

3- Praan mudra

By doing this mudra all diseases of the eyes are removed and make skin glowing.
It increases immunity and makes you feel energetic all the time.

4- Vayu mudra

The practice of Vayu Mudra kills all diseases caused by an imbalance of air in the body like Sciatica, gas, joint pain, constipation, etc.

5- Prithvi mudra

Performing this mudra increases endurance and patience and Makes facial skin clean and shiny.
And it maintains bodyweight so it can be used for weight loss.

Mudras are very easy to do and all the yoga mudras can be done by sitting at a place for 20 to 30 minutes only, you have to use your hands and sit quietly. Doing these mudras gives amazing benefits just try any mudra according to your problem and do it daily you can do it while watching the movie or your favorite TV show and some days you will see and feel what I was talking about.

Thanks for reading and be healthy.