How to practise Hridaya Mudra or Heart Gesture

Fold the index finger towards your thumb, the middle and ring finger are also touching the thumb, the little finger is relaxed. remain in the posture with both hands as long as it is comfortable.

Practise the heart mudra at least five minutes a day, and for the best results for an hour daily.

Close your eyes, completely relax and feel the very subtle changes of energy inside your body.

Feel how the heart area becomes unburdened.

For a greater impact, pratise this exercise for 40-days.

You can perform it during any activity, anytime and anywhere, for example while walking, or you can practise it in a meditation posture like padmasana (lotus pose), siddhasana (accomplished pose), or vajrasana (diamond pose).

This hand posture improves the vitality of the heart by diverting the flow of the prana to the heart area. The prana, which would normally leave the body, is redirected by mudra so it stays in the body. Hridaya gesture unburdens the anahata chakra and is great for emotional relief.

Mudras regulate the five elements that the human body is made of. These five elements need to be balanced for us to stay healthy and energetic. Any illness or emotional disharmony in the body relates to an element. Each finger represents an element, the thumb is for fire, the index finger relates to air, the middle finger represents ether, the ring finger is for earth and the little finger for water. By balancing all the elements, hand gestures make it possible to feel the divine energies within us. Mudra is said to be 1000 times stronger than pranayama, which means thatt it is more powerful than we might even imagine. The practice of mudras broadens our horizon so we can experience more love, joy, purity and divinity within ourselves and in our live. And these vibrations then exist in our new relationship too.