Hand Yoga: How To Awaken Your Palms…

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Yoga, Energy, Connections, and Consciousness, recently.

I want to discuss and explain what I consider ‘real’ Yoga… but that will likely be a thread that flows through many articles… for now, to keep it simple, I feel that Yoga is primarily concerned with cultivating consciousness… building deeper levels of awareness… and connecting with all that is (achieving Energy Oneness).

So while we’re creating deeper connections and inducing higher levels of consciousness… where does simple physical healing come into play?  What about getting rid of those aches and pains?

Yoga does this as well.

How can we make these work together?

It’s relatively simple…

We just pay a little more relaxed attention to what we’re doing…

As we inject a little more awareness and acceptance into our movements and postures… they become our ‘Yoga’… whether they began that way or not.

There are any number of simple still or moving exercises to make the body healthier, stronger, more flexible, more relaxed… they often have many other side benefits such as increased energy and decreased pain… but they don’t become Yoga until you begin to cultivate your consciousness through them…

There is definitely benefit to practicing some specific movements from many systems of Yoga as well… some of these movements simply pull the practitioner closer to mind-body-spirit unification (I really enjoy a few movements from sun salutations)…

But while there are benefits to these specific postures and movements… they are not required… and it is much easier to find some movements that relieve pain or just make you feel good in general… and then add some awareness and acceptance to them.

In addition, there’s nothing wrong with starting out to get healthier, relieve pain or stress, and simply feel better, and then worry about cultivating your consciousness later… that’s how I got started…

I’ve had some challenges with my ring finger on my left hand… I had it kicked out of place at the 2nd knuckle in a karate class…

I’ve also had some trouble with my wrists…

But I never have trouble with either when I remember to practice some simple exercises:

Hand Yoga… Layer 1

Learning to pour your awareness steadily into a single object of focus is an excellent way to develop a greater level of skill at anything… at a more advanced level, it is also the beginning of inducing ‘higher’ states of consciousness.

When you work this Yoga specifically with your hands… you can quickly begin to awaken the energies in your palms as well!

You can practice these exercises at virtually any time.  I encourage you to see what works best for you, but I usually do the exercise until I feel a light warmth, tingling, or pressure in and around my hands.

In this way, I can let go of the pain in wrists and finger before it ever happens… and I enjoy increased sensitivity as well!

I’ll be posting the video for Layer 2 in the next couple of days…

keep smiling,

Ben

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