Pingala Mudra: let your empowered heart guide you towards living your purpose with clarity, assertiveness, and determination
You have three brains!
Yes, you really do!
Your heart center has SO much neurology. It guides you through feeling.
It takes A LOT of courage to listen to your heart. Pingala Mudra gives you the courage and clarity to listen to the feelings of your heart center with so you can make aligned decisions with determination. It connects you to masculine energy so you have the assertiveness to take action steps to create the life you want to be living.
Pingala Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to cultivate assertiveness and empowerment with a sense of warmth, but especially during Leo Season when the energy naturally wants this for you too! Leo is a fire sign and it somatically rules the heart space. This mudra helps you tap into the confidence and vitality of the fire element and the heart-centeredness of the air element so you can confidently let the wisdom of your heart guide you towards your life purpose. It is a shape that physically supports digestion and concentration and energetically supports your solar plexus.
Use the determination of your heart and balance feeling and doing with this mudra and these tools to support its intention!
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🫶🏻MUDRA: Pingala Mudra
Benefits of Pingala Mudra:
connection to the sun and its energy
determination
assertiveness
decision making
planning
vitality
masculine energy
concentration
warmth
empowerment
life purpose
supports digestion
connection to the fire and air elements
connection to your solar plexus
Why practice Pingala Mudra:
To help you channel the energy of the sun for energy, assertiveness, purpose, and determination.
How to practice Pingala Mudra:
Find any comfortable seat, perhaps on a bolster or blanket to elevate your hips. Join the tips of your ring fingers to the tips of your thumbs on each hand. Hold your right hand below your navel with your palm facing up. Hold your left hand above your navel with your palm facing down and your joined fingers just above your other joined fingers, but not touching. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
🧘🏻♀️MEDITATION: Heart Tapping
WHY:
A meditation to tap into the determination and truth of your heart center.
PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.
MUDRA:
Gently bring the fingertips of both hands towards your sternum. Begin to alternate tapping each hand on your heart rhythmically.
DRISHTI:
Close your eyes if it feels safe and comfortable. Always permission to keep a soft gaze.
PRANAYAMA:
Breathe deeply yet naturally in and out through the nose. Continue for 3-5 minutes.
MANTRA:
Perhaps attach the mantra SAT and then NAM to your tapping. This connects you to the truest truth of your life purpose.
TO END:
Slow your tapping down until your hands rest gently on your heart. Pause to reflect for as long as you feel called, with your hands still over your heart or in Pingala Mudra. Find Pingala Mudra by joining the tips of your ring fingers to the tips of your thumbs on each hand. Hold your right hand below your navel with your palm facing up. Hold your left hand above your navel with your palm facing down and your joined fingers just above your other joined fingers, but not touching. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
✨MANTRA:
I am determined to stay heart-centered
I hope you tap into the determination and truth of your heart!
