Mudra means “seal” in Sanskrit. It’s a symbolic or ritual gesture using primarily the hands. Each position is believed to have a specific effect. Specific positions can lead to specific states of consciousness symbolized by the hand positions. For example, if a person frequently and with feeling does a position of fearlessness, they will also be freed from fearfulness in time. Mudras are said to engage areas of the brain and/or soul influencing them, sometimes physically, by their use—not unlike an affirmation, or reflexology for that matter.
“One way that all of us can better care for ourselves is by developing techniques for coping with the irritations and anxiety that are part of life…
Think of these gestures as self-talk for your hands. These simple movements, the gestures that we often make unconsciously, can help us focus on our work, calm ourselves, release anger and energize us. Used for centuries by many different cultures, mudras are seen in Eastern dance and meditation, in ancient Egyptian friezes, even in Byzantine icons of Christ. Most of us use them today, too: we wave goodbye, we press a hand to our chest in distress, we wriggle our fingers to release energy, or press fingertips together to calm ourselves.
Easy to learn, mudras can be done anywhere, at any time: at traffic lights, in meetings, in airplanes, when we’re arguing, when we’re grieving, when we need to prepare for sleep. The word mudra can be translated from the Sanskrit as that which brings inner peace, and that s what mudras are: a physical means of quieting our bodies.” Product description for Mudras: Ancient Gestures to Ease Modern Stress by Emily Fuller Williams.
Kubera Mudra for Confidence, Achieving Goals, Finding Objects, and More
Since this newsletter is focusing on new beginnings and discovering your heart’s desire, a mudra that helps you put some oomph behind your future plans and setting intentions is in order!
Benefits of Kubera Mudra:
- Focuses and concentrates energy for something strongly desired.
- Puts powerful strength behind future plans (goals and what you want fulfilled)
- Confidence, calmness and peacefulness
- It can also be used to find something (lost object, parking spot, etc.)
- Physically, it opens and decongests the frontal sinuses
How to do Kubera Mudra:
- Touch the tip of your thumb, index finger and middle finger together.
- Bend the other two fingers in toward the middle of your hand.
- Do this with both hands.
- Hold for several minutes and repeat 2-3 times throughout the day.
“The practice is simple. In your mind, formulate your wish or goal very clearly into words. Ask your heart whether this is good for you and whether it enriches your surrounding world. Now place the three fingers together, phrase your wish in a positive way as you say it out loud three times. Press your fingers together while you do this. Done! If this concerns a parking spot or a new dress, then the mental preparation isn’t as important, otherwise, there are no shortcuts.
The following meditation and the affirmation should be done one to two times daily for several days or weeks:
Visualize your goal, your future, your special wish, in all of its colors. At the same time, develop the feeling as if it already were reality. The thought is the procreative power, the father, the feeling is the form-giving power, the mother. Just like large plants need longer to achieve their full bloom, the same applies to our goals and wishes. It is also obvious that we must make our own contribution to this process.
Affirmation: I give my best, and I let the rest be given to me.
Many people already know this mudra as the ‘Three Finger Technique’ from Alpha Training* and use it when they are looking for something specific—a free parking space, a certain dress, the right book, the necessary information, etc. Others use it when they want to put more force behind their plans for the future. It always involves goals that people want to reach, or wishes that they would like to have fulfilled. With the three closed fingers, additional strength is given to the matter and/or thought.
Putting this mudra to specific use in everyday life is quite fun. It also gives us inner repose, confidence, and security.
*Mental Training, which has been developed by Gunter and Margarete Friebe. In 1973, this couple studied the methods of Mind Control, Mind Development, and Alphagenics in the USA. During the past twenty years, they have refined these methods so that they now have an independent, very efficient mental training program.”
Source: Mudras. Yoga in your hands, by Gertrud Hirschi
