This is episode 1,791. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you.

We are midweek in our meditation series we've been exploring this week all about simplifying.

Simplifying your life.

You might be focusing on simplifying your thoughts or simplifying your environment.

Maybe you'd like less clutter in your home.

Or you might be simplifying how you approach your work

and productivity. You might be simplifying relationships so that you can spend quality time

with those people who matter most.

As you've gone throughout this series, you've discovered meditation techniques to help you gain this simplicity in your lifestyle.

And in today's episode, you will discover a meditation technique using a

mudra to help you focus your thoughts. I'll also share with you a lifestyle technique, one of the best lifestyle techniques to help

you focus your thoughts and gain mental clarity. So let me begin with this mudra technique. That way you can do this technique as you listen to the rest of the episode and bring it

into your meditation today.

Or of course, as always, the techniques are designed to be used throughout your day, even when you're not meditating. So a mudra is a way you

position your hands. This stimulates a corresponding region of your brain. It's real similar to acupressure or yoga. In fact, mudras are often called

yoga in your hands. You have a lot of nerve endings on your fingertips and on your hands.

If you take your thumb and with your thumbnail kind of poke around on your fingertips

and even into your palm, you can feel right away these nerve endings.

And so when you position your fingers and touch your fingertips to your thumb tips such as you'll do today

in the mudra today this mudra you'll be discovering will help to stimulate a part of your brain

that helps you to focus so what you do for this mudra today is called the Mukula Mudra.

And you're going to touch your thumb tip to all your fingertips.

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