Mudras for healing

[Lilli]

Does anyone else use mudras?
(Hand positions with specific meanings - commonly used in meditation)

I have been experimenting with them for a while now. I dont necessarily use them just in prayer or meditation...i've found them effective when just sitting quietly.

[Eloriel]

1. I have a book about them (LOL -- I have a book about

EVERYTHING -- or several).

I'm also interested in mantras, and have a wonderful book about that as well, tho I don't remember the author's name off-hand.

I should look them up, and get busy. :-)

[Lilli]

2. I know the feeling

I've studied, or have materials TO study, just about everything. :)

[Desertrose]

3. The Mayan Deck also has mudras as I recall

for each card.....(my tail seems glued to the computer chair or I would go look...perhaps tomorrow LOL)



http://www.learntarot.com/mjdesc.htm
One of my favorite decks even after 15 years......


I think the mudras are very beautiful...


this one is The Gesture of Meditation (Samadhi Mudra) with both hands resting on the lap, palms upwards.



http://www.buddhanet.net/mudras.htm

[Lilli]

4. Ooooooooooooh! I've never seen that deck.

I used to collect tarot decks...never saw that one before. :)

[drfemoe]

5. I will never forget

...when my dad was dying, his hands were in what I think of as the "OHM" position, thumb and index fingers touching, with other fingers relaxed. He was not into 'alternative' healing/spirituallity at all. Quite the contrary. But, it seems his body just took that pose at the end....

http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/AlternativeMedicines/Mudrapat.asp

http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/mudras

Websites are more interesting than books sometimes... wow, can't believe I said that.

[Lilli]

6. It's amazing to me just how intuitive a lot of the mudras and

hand positions for energy healing are.... I've often wondered how much is "wired in" and how much we are lead into it when we need it.


Interesting links....i've never seen the one for coughing before