Yoga and mudras are an integral part of each other, complementing one another. Mudras are sacred, symbolic hand gestures that have been practiced for centuries to free and balance energy in the body. If done everyday, consistently and regularly, they can help optimize your health and well-being. But how long does it take for the mudras to work their magic? Mudras are ancient hand gestures that work more like everyday magic because we can (and should) do them everyday! We also don’t need to leave the comfort of our own home. We just need to have some patience and to sit comfortably in one place. Place focus on the hands, with which we will do the mudra. In our guide below, learn how to practice mudras for the right length of time and how to speed up the effects and benefits by combining with other mudras.
To speed up the results, mudras can each be practiced as little as 30-60 seconds per day. You can also practice as long as 30-45 minutes per mudra, per day. There’s no EXACT time frame for how long it takes mudras to work, but many will feel results instantly or within an hour or less. However, to truly open your chakras, and balance and free energy throughout the body, we highly recommend you practice mudras consistently and daily. Also, the secret lies in doing one mudra after the particular mudra, to ensure speed in the goal.
Now let’s look into each of the hacks for speeding up the results of mudras individually.
How Long Should I Practice Mudras Each Time?
Mudras can each be practiced as little as 30-60 seconds per day. You can also practice as long as 30-45 minutes per mudra, per day. However, generally this takes many months of practice to hold mudras for this long. In this guide, we generally recommend between 3-7 minutes per mudra that will work for everyone, including beginner’s that are new to mudras.
How Long Does it Take Mudras to Work?
There’s no EXACT time frame for how long it takes mudras to work, but many will feel results instantly or within an hour or less. However, to truly open your chakras, and balance and free energy throughout the body, we highly recommend you practice mudras consistently and daily. Like a savings account, the effects will compound and grow throughout the body, mind, and spirit. After a few short weeks, you will free and open energy throughout the body and optimize your health and well-being!
How Can We Speed Up the Process of Mudras Working?
The most important assisting mudras that help speed up the process of all other healing mudras are: the Chin mudra, the Prana mudra and the Shunya mudra.
The Chin mudra, the Prana mudra, and the Shunya mudra, when combined with another mudra, helps it to act faster than expected. The results are dramatic! They speed up the process of healing, as mentioned below, in the procedure that follows.
(To learn about mudras for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, take a look here. Also, we made a comprehensive guide to mudras for all sorts of ailments and areas: depression, anxiety, concentration, brain power and more, see how to do them here.)
How Can We Ensure That a Mudra Helps Us Reach A Specific Goal?
Let us now see what mudras when done with the specific mudra, helps make it effective. As we all know, every ailment has a specific mudra. But, how do we ensure that a mudra helps us reach our specific goal? How quickly do the mudras help us get to have the proper effect? Let us pay heed to the words of the Greats or the seers (as they are often referred to), and see what they prescribe.
The ancient Hindu and Tibetan tradition of spirituality and culture taught that the mudras were remedies that were suggested by the mystical saints to the general public. These became universally accepted in these societies, cultures, and traditions. India has a history of over a thousand seers. Health was an one their highest priorities. Their take was- that the only way to become totally disease free and also achieve a oneness with the universal spirit is through our body. That means we can hope to achieve greatness and a disease- free life by doing asanas and integrating them with mudras.
The secret lies in doing one mudra after the particular mudra, to ensure speed in the goal.
But, many times have we not wondered about one fact? Even though we do the prescribed mudras, how do we make it work faster? The secret lies in doing one mudra after the particular mudra, to ensure speed in the goal. And, according to the yogic gurus of yore, doing the Chin mudra or the Gyan mudra is one of the most effective ways to facilitate a faster healing process. So the trick is to do the particular mudra, followed by the Chin mudra, and this is like a time-tested formula.
(And speaking of time, here’s how and which mudras can help seniors with better circulation and more energy.)
It always helps speed up the process of healing. Let us remember that mudras are more powerful than spoken words. They are symbols of body language that when done, helps to heal the process of healing faster. How do we do it? What are the benefits? Let us, for example, take up the issue of the Vayu mudra.
How to Do the Chin Mudra?
In the Chin mudra, first, we have to keep both the palms of our hands on our thighs- respective thighs. Then we have to join the tip of the thumb and the tip of the index finger or the forefinger together. Stretch the rest of the fingers.
Some people do this mudra in a slightly different way. For another variation, bend the index finger and then bend the thumb on and place it on top. Extend the rest of the fingers and place side by side, near the extended middle finger. The ring finger and the little finger which are standing side by side next to each other. Constantly and continuously practicing the Vayu mudra helps in controlling an anxious mind. It brings some semblance of calm and composure in those who practice it.
It helps us relax, helps us overcome a restive and a restless mind. Its benefits calm the stomach and also reach the soul and So, firstly, we must ensure that when we sit to start doing the Vayu mudra, for better effects, we should do the Chin mudra for about 3 to 4 minutes first. After this, we should start doing the Vayu mudra. Then, after practicing it for about 6 to 7 minutes, if we end it with another small stretch of the Chin mudra, the effect is going to be excellent.
The Vayu Mudra: A Powerful Mudra that Relieves Pain in the Body and Treat Gastric Problems, too.
The Vayu mudra, also has to its credit, the aspect of overcoming something as debilitating as Parkinson’s disease. It helps relieve pain in any part of the body, and also helps treat gastric related problems. This mudra is powerful, and practicing consistently means we can rest with ease. We need to do the Chin mudra along with the Vayu mudra and this is going to ensure that we are closer to realizing our objective than anything else.
How to Do the Shunya mudra?
In the Shunya mudra, first, bend the middle finger towards the palm. Next, place the thumb over it and bend it towards the palm also. When we do this as a preamble to any mudra , we need to end too, with this mudra. This creates the process of making the mudras act with speed. If we were to do the Vayu mudra for easing the many ailments one needs to do it for, we need to either do the Chin mudra, or the Shunya mudra or the Prana mudra, both, at the beginning and at the end.
We should use our discretion. We do not have to do all the three mudras- The Chin, Shunya, the Prana, together with the main mudra. That will not only make it a lengthy procedure, but also make it a confusing one. So, it is either the Chin mudra, the Shunya mudra or the Prana mudra that act as catalysts to speed up the mudras to do their work faster. So, in actuality, this process will make sure the mudras act really quickly to address the ailment we have.
Mudras Speed Up Healing
This also means that this will take the mudras no time to start taking effect. Which in reality translates to the fact that the mudras – in this instance, the Vayu mudra and the Chin mudra when done together, will start taking quicker ways to help us heal or help the ailment we intend doing it for, to heal at a quicker pace. It is also true that by visualizing the body part that is intended to heal, we will help the mudras to speed up the work of healing
. In other words, by doing the mudras in the above-mentioned manner, which is doing the chin mudra first, then the Vayu mudra, then again the Chin mudra, and by visualizing the body part getting healed, it will take the mudras very less time to work on the ailments, and help us be the proud owners of a body that is disease free physically.
It is also true that by integrating all the three steps, of meditating and visualizing, then doing the mudras and in the manner prescribed, we are already halfway to getting physically and mentally disease and stress free.
How To Do The Prana Mudra
We can say with conviction that the Prana mudra is another catalyst mudra. It is done along with any other mudra, it helps the mudras to work faster to help speed up the process of healing. The tips of the thumb and the ring finger and the little finger are brought together. They are held together and the rest of the fingers are outstretched.
This mudra, like the Chin mudra aids the person who is doing it, with stability, and peace of mind. It allows the person doing it to relax in a very spontaneous manner. It accelerates the mudra’s healing and enhances its effects. Hence, it is very important that we practice the mudra that we want to do, with any of the three mudras that we have just mentioned – the Chin mudra, the Shunya mudra and the Prana mudra. These mudras help as catalysts to create quick action in the practice of mudras.
Balance Prana in the Body: Our fingers Are the Reception Points of of the 5 Elements
There is a firm belief among the gurus and practitioners of yoga that all our fingers are the reception points of the five elements. These elements are – fire, water, space or ether, air and earth. Whenever there is any imbalance in these elements in our body, they end up in diseases. When we do the mudras it tries to set in the balancing factor, and then either increases or reduces the presence of the elements. But the underlying element in all the mudras is that of prana or breath, If there is no prana, there is no life, and when there is no presence of prana, everything ceases.
When we integrate the asanas with the mudras, the energy points open up, and remove the blockages and then help heal the ailments. It is a complete integration of energy centers, the breath and the subtle elements, and these are integral to anyone getting healed. In fact, along with the mudras, these energy center receptors help to speed up the process of healing. The mudras along with the catalyst mudras help in bringing out an amalgamation of complete healing.
So, we need to remember that when doing the mudras in the manner outlined, we learn to work towards eliminating the ailments fast. It takes the mudras only half the time , to address the problems or to prevent any issues in our system from becoming really big, and then emerging as a disease.
Visualize the Organs and Body Parts You Want To Heal!
A key point to remember as you practice mudras: visualize the organ where we intend to focus the mudras. Focus on that body part; to start it with the catalyst mudra or the helping mudra; do the actual mudra; then follow it again with the catalyst mudra. This is like a sequence. Always practice with a calm mind. It helps to set the same routine in each day. Practice in the same area in your home at around the same time each day. A disciplined routine helps us create a body that is in perfect harmony. When we start enjoying the mudras, we will reap what we sow, by enjoying the outcome as well.
What’s a personality when there is no complete harmonious bonding of the emotional, the mental, the physical elements into an integrated whole? That is why people say, that yoga is not completely asanas. It is also the perfect blending in of the mudras along with a sense of discipline and proper breathing. According to gurus, these things will help the mudras to work their magic on us faster. This will help us get into the perfect mood for linking the mudras along with our asana practice. Ultimately, we will achieve a healthy mind, healthy body and a healthy personality.
And that is why we say- actions speak louder than words. We need to show ourselves that nothing is impossible, when done with a focused intent. The focus helps to set the goal, and the disciplined effort helps to bring an order in the scheme of things. When you start to follow the advice outlined, don’t be surprised to discover how quickly mudras start to work! Your body, mind, and spirit will all heal. It will build that much- needed immunity against all kinds of diseases.
Shanti Arunkumar, Senior Contributor At L’Aquila Active
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