Brahma Mudra: achieve authentic self-mastery, trust your confidence, and step into your potential

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Jul 28

Your ego is not an enemy.

However, your ego can cause you to focus more on what things look like rather than what they FEEL like.

Brahma Mudra helps you focus on your greatest potential and use your self-esteem and determination to achieve true self-mastery rather than worrying about how others perceive you.

Brahma Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to let your ego guide you to be your best, most authentic self, but especially if the shadow side of Leo energy brings arrogance and the desire to impress, or anytime you want to work with any fire sign energy or your solar plexus chakra. It helps you align with your potential and confidence while staying true to who you are. Leo is a fire sign and this mudra helps you tap into the determination of the fire element so you can use your own inner fire to achieve self-mastery. It is a shape that physically supports digestion and energetically supports your solar plexus chakra.

Lead with heart rather than just ego with this mudra and these tools to support its intention!

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🫶🏻 MUDRA: Brahma Mudra

Benefits of Brahma Mudra:

potential
self-mastery
determination
self-esteem
supports digestion
connection to the fire element
connection to your Manipura (solar plexus) chakra

Why practice Brahma Mudra:

Practice Brahma Mudra when you catch yourself focusing on what things look like rather than what they FEEL like. This mudra helps you understand your potential and use your determination and self-esteem to achieve authentic self-mastery. Come back to it anytime you want to align with your potential and confidence while staying true to who you are.

How to practice Brahma Mudra:

From a comfortable seat, tuck your thumbs into your palms and make soft fists with both hands. Bring your palms to face upward and gently press the backs of your fists together in front of your body. Hold your elbows out to the sides and rest the shape gently against your solar plexus chakra, just above your navel. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️ MEDITATION: Ego Self-Mastery

WHY:
A Kundalini meditation that helps you use your ego in a productive rather than limiting way to facilitate self-mastery. Practice this when you want your ego to guide you to be your best, most authentic self rather than the version you think everyone wants to see.

PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.

MUDRA:
Bring the tip of each finger to the base of itself on each hand. Keep your thumbs extended. Hold your arms up at about a 60-degree angle with your thumbs reaching up to the sky.

PRANAYAMA:
Begin breath of fire. Powerfully hug your navel back to your spine with each exhale. Let the coming inhale be passive and somewhat quick before you take another powerful exhale hug. Continue for 1-3 minutes.

You can always substitute long deep breaths for breath of fire if you need or want to.

DRISHTI:
Gather your awareness softly to your third eye at the center of your forehead as you soften your eyes if that feels ok today.

TO END:
Inhale deeply as you bring the thumb tips to touch overhead. Savor this inhale as long as is comfortable. Perhaps imagine hugging your root chakra (at the very base of your spine) up and into yourself as you focus the gaze to your third eye at the center of your forehead. When you need to exhale, release your arms and your breath and pause to reflect with Brahma Mudra.