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Daily Meditation Podcast

Calm Your Heart

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There is a clear path to calming your mind and body. It begins with calming your heart. To experience more mental clarity, it's necessary to calm your heart. To calm your heart, you must focus your mind. In this week's series, you'll explore meditation techniques you can do right away to instantly calm your mind and body. 

This is part 4 of a 7-part Brain Health Connection to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Clarity, episodes 2068-2074.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is episode

0:02.0

2071 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

0:07.0

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to our series this week where we are in day four of a series on how your mind and your heart

0:20.8

are interconnected and how when you calm your mind you calm your whole body and when

0:29.9

you calm your heart you're able to calm your thoughts.

0:36.6

In today's episode, you're going to layer together

0:42.1

the affirmation and the breathing technique you've explored in this

0:47.2

series and I'm going to share with you one more technique that you may be familiar with if you are a regular

0:56.2

listener here and that is a moodra. A moodra is a way you position your hands or your body in this case will position our hands in a certain way that stimulates a corresponding region of your brain.

1:17.4

It's similar to acupressure.

1:21.6

So the moudra, I want to share with you today is called the Hakini

1:27.0

moodra. This moodra is where you press together your This moor

1:34.0

is where you press together your fingers and your thumb tips.

1:39.3

And there's space in between your palms. So just your fingertips and your thumb tips are touching.

1:47.0

It's called the Hakini mudra. In fact you may do this mudra intuitively when you are thinking.

1:56.5

When you are trying to make a decision, you often see world leaders holding their hands in this position or business leaders, people making important decisions.

2:10.0

And this is a way that helps you to think with more clarity when you position your hands in this way.

2:22.0

You can check out a photo of the Hakini Mudra on my

2:28.3

Instagram. It's actually Sip and Oom Instagram account. So there you can see how to do it. It's very

2:37.2

simple to do though. You just simply touch together your fingertips and your

2:42.1

thumb tips. You could pretend as though there's a ball in your

2:47.3

palms so your palms aren't touching just your fingertips and thumb tips. Now along with this I want to share with you some insight

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