Shiva Linga Mudra: ground into trust, focus your mind, and improve without shaming yourself
The desire to improve does not make you wrong to begin with.
Shiva Linga Mudra is a gesture of grounding, focus, and improvement. It steadies you. It reminds you that life will support you.
You are not a problem to solve. And wanting to grow does not mean something is wrong or broken. The desire to get better is not the issue. The improvement only turns heavy when the reason underneath it becomes proving rather than improving. From this headspace nothing you improve ever feels good enough, because it was never really about the improving.
There is another place to explore this from. In Kundalini yoga we speak of three minds, all of equal value. Your negative mind scans for what could go wrong so you stay protected. Your positive mind scans for what could go right so you can grow. Both are doing their job. You need both. Your neutral mind is the one that sits between them, and it does not take a side. It sees what is actually there. What the real risks are. What the real possibilities are. What your next honest step could be. That is where discernment lives.
Getting better does not mean the same thing all the time. Some days better is finishing the thing. Some days better is resting. The commitment is to showing up, for you and your needs.
Grounding is what makes that possible. It is hard to see clearly while you are bracing into protection or overexcited about possibility. Shiva Linga Mudra brings that grounding. It directs your breath into your belly and solar plexus, connecting you to your root chakra, your Muladhara, and to the earth element, so your body is settled enough for your mind to be clear.
Virgo energy knows this reaching well. It wants to refine, to tend, to do right by what it has been given, and the light of that is devotion rather than correction. This can move through any of us at any time, but especially during times where we are touched by Virgo’s energy.
Settle your body and focus your mind with this mudra and these tools to support its intention.
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🫶🏻 MUDRA: Shiva Linga Mudra
Benefits of Shiva Linga Mudra:
grounding in your body
trust that life will always support you
one-pointed focus and determination
commitment to your improvement
supports your digestive system
directs your breath into your belly and solar plexus
overall nourishment and health
ease stress and promote calm
confidence to follow through
balance masculine and feminine energy
connection to your root chakra, your Muladhara
connection to the earth element
Why practice Shiva Linga Mudra:
To help you find the steadiness to follow through on what matters to you.
How to practice Shiva Linga Mudra:
Find any comfortable seat, perhaps on a bolster or blanket to elevate your hips. Cup your left hand and hold it palm facing up just below your navel. Hug the fingers of your right hand into the center of your right palm. Keep your right thumb extended. Place your right hand in the center of your left palm with the thumb pointing up. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
🧘🏻♀️ MEDITATION: Discernment through the Neutral Mind
WHY:
A mudra meditation to help you become aware of your neutral mind so you can discern where, what, and when to improve.
PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.
MUDRA:
Find Shiva Linga Mudra by cupping your left hand and holding it palm facing up just below your navel. Hug the fingers of your right hand into the center of your right palm. Keep your right thumb extended. Place your right hand in the center of your left palm with the thumb pointing up. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
DRISHTI:
Invitation to focus your gaze toward your third eye, or Ajna, at the center of your forehead.
PRANAYAMA:
Breathe long and deeply yet naturally in and out through your nose. Continue for 3-5 minutes.
MANTRA:
Invitation to mentally or verbally attach the mantra WAHE to the inhale and GURU to the exhale. This connects you to the teacher within you and helps you accept yourself as you are but strive to improve at the same time.
TO END:
With an exhale, release your hands and control of your breath. Pause to sit in stillness and notice what your neutral mind can see now that you are settled.
✨ MANTRA:
I am committed to getting better and better every day
I hope you stay committed to living your best life, and trust what that means each and every day.
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