Gupta Mudra: trade doubt in for self-belief by becoming centered in a sense of safe enough so you can digest limiting beliefs
It’s time to digest all your doubts!
Gupta Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to trade doubt in for confidence, but especially during Virgo Season. The shadow side of Virgo tends to bring perfectionist tendencies that amplify doubt. It amplifies judgment, criticism, and worry. No fun, right?!
But that is an opportunity to move beyond worry and judgment. A chance to allow those beliefs to come up so they can finally be digested and transformed. There is a reason Virgo somatically rules the belly!
Connect to a sense of centering so you feel safe enough to work with this opportunity. This mudra helps you tap into all three of your lower chakras - root, sacral, and solar plexus and the earth, water, and fire elements, which is a potent combination. It is a shape that physically supports the digestion of all the things - food to nourish your body and beliefs to nourish the rest of you!
Anchor in self-belief and let the rest burn away with this mudra and these tools to support its intention!
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🫶🏻MUDRA: Gupta Mudra
Benefits of Gupta Mudra:
release doubt
digest limiting beliefs,
facilitates ease
centering
safety
confidence
supports the health of the digestive system
connection to your lower chakras - root, sacral, and solar plexus
connection to the earth, water, and fire elements
Why practice Gupta Mudra:
To help you feel safe enough to digest limiting beliefs and doubt so you can live with ease and confidence.
How to practice Gupta Mudra:
Find any comfortable seat, perhaps on a bolster or blanket to elevate your hips. Softly interlace your fingers inward with your right thumb over your left. Bring your wrists towards each other and rest them against your belly. Soften your shoulders and reach your elbows slightly away from your torso.
🧘🏻♀️MEDITATION: Digest Limitations from the Negative Mind
WHY:
A mudra meditation to help you digest limiting beliefs.
PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.
MUDRA:
Find Gupta mudra by softly interlacing your fingers inward with your right thumb over your left. Bring your wrists towards each other and rest them against your belly. Soften your shoulders and reach your elbows slightly away from your torso.
DRISHTI:
Invitation to keep your eyes slightly open and look down towards your hands.
PRANAYAMA:
Inhale deeply in a long steady breath through your nose. Exhale in a focused stream through rounded lips. Continue for 3-5 minutes.
TO END:
With an exhale, release your hands and control of your breath. Pause to sit in stillness to reflect.
✨MANTRA:
I release doubt and center myself in self-belief
I hope you trade doubt in for self-belief!
