This is episode 1,735.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back

as we are midweek in our series on mental and emotional wellness.

How are you doing? I hope you're enjoying some of the meditation techniques that will help to calm your mind and body and this intern improves your mental health.

In today's episode, you are going to discover a meditation technique that you can do to soothe where you tend to carry pain, physical or emotional pain in your body.

And this is a technique called a moodra.

Every Wednesday, this is for a Wednesday's episode as I record this, I share a moodra. And a

moodra is simply a way you position your hands that activates a corresponding region of your brain.

Mudras are often referred to as yoga in your hands and the

mudra for this week is simple to do so I can guide you how to do it. What you do is you touch your fingertips

doing this with each hand to your thumb tips. So with each hand just touch your

fingertips to your thumb tips and then with your hands placed in this mudra, which is called the Mukula mudra, you place them over an area of your body where you feel tightness or tension or pain emotionally or physically.

And you'll kind of circle your fingers around that pain. Circle them

to the left and circle them to the right. And what this does is it relieves tension in that area. You can feel it.

This is a powerful mudra. I do this moodra when I feel physical pain and it helps me tremendously.

It's a simple gesture. So you can try moudra as you meditate today.

Before I guide you into your meditation, I want to share with you an important way to improve your mental health.

If you have ever seen your primary care provider, a counselor, a psychologist or a psychiatrist regarding

your mental wellness, I am quite sure they likely recommended that you exercise.

And I want to share with you some important tips as you exercise for your mental health.

Now this is from an article from Psychology Today by Dr. Sarah Jingle.

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