Heart mudra to transform pain into calm

When sadness, disappointment or pain, physical or emotional, emerges, it is easy to lose focus, get angry or close down even more and thus foster discomfort. If we accepted our worries and annoyances with tenderness, that pain could get rid of naturally and spontaneously. Visually we would say that pain causes contraction and that contraction can best be transformed into expansion when given space and range of motion.

If one interprets, for example, that the neighbor’s greeting has been cold and is offended, that interpretation accentuates the pain and contraction. Instead, you can see that your emotion is caused by your limited point of view and conditioned. You can try to see a greeting and nothing else, thus relaxing your shoulders and jaw. Then you will probably feel it differently.

It is about being compassionate with pain, understanding that its origin occurs in the mind.

Tenderness is being compassionate with pain, understanding that its origin occurs mostly in the mind, and giving it space so that it can be transformed through this more humble gaze. Recognizing that everything is seen with conditioned eyes, the necessary space is created for relax in pain and understand it.

heart mudra

Abhaya Hridaya Mudra It is a gesture of the hands, beautiful and elegant. With it you favor calm and emotional balance.

1. Sit still

Support yourself on your sitting bones with your spine upright, shoulders and jaw relaxed.

2. Place your fingers

Cross the right wrist over the left, with the backs touching. Wrap each finger of the right hand with the corresponding one on the left, except the ring fingers. These bring them forward and join them with the thumb.

3. Take the gesture to the chest

Bring this mudra closer to the root of your heart, at the base of the sternum. Exhale consciously for several breaths.

4. Transform pain

Welcome your ailments with tenderness and create internal space so that they can transform.