Yoga Mudras for Thyroid Problems

Thyroid is a gland in the neck that releases hormones. These hormones control the body metabolism by increasing the oxygen utilizing capacity of most of the body organs. Hence, it is important that the thyroid gland releases enough hormones- neither less nor more.

In short, thyroid gland affects the body metabolism- it affects how your body produces and utilizes energy.

The under activity of this gland would slow down the body metabolism to cause below disorders/ symptoms:

Weight gain

Hair loss

Dry nails

Chronic fatigue and tiredness

Depression

Low blood pressure

Headache

Swelling on the face

Joint stiffness and muscle pain

Abnormal menstrual cycles

Constipation

Dry skin

Tingling or numbness in the body parts

The hyperactivity of thyroid gland would have below symptoms:

Sudden weight loss

Rapid heartbeat

Anxiety

Muscle ache and weakness

Lack of concentration and memory loss

Sweating

Menstrual problems

Thyroid problems are not curable, but can be managed with proper medication, diet and lifestyle practices.

Yoga Mudras: The natural Solution to all Thyroid Problems

1. Brahma Mudra - Gesture of God Brahma or Attitude of creation god

How to do - Fold thumb inside curl fingers then press fingers at knuckles.

Benefits - Balance thyroid gland secretion, helpful in irregular menstrual cycle.

2. Gyan Mudra - Gesture of consciousness.

How to do - Thumb and index fingertip touching, rest fingers extended.

For beginners – Index fingertip touching inside root of thumb.
Palm facing up

Benefits - Improves concentration, endocrine system and calms the mind.

3. Adi Mudra - Primal gesture or first gesture.

How to do - Thumb fold inside the curled fingers.

Benefits - Increase oxygen flow in blood, gives mental clarity & balance.

4. Shunya Mudra - The gesture of emptiness.

How to do - Fold your middle finger & press it with your thumb.

Benefits - Heart and throat diseases are removed & immensely helpful in the case of thyroid Problems.

Final words

Benefits of Yoga mudras for thyroid problems are encouraging, but it is not a cure for thyroid problems. It is more like a supplement and it would bring the best results when combined with a healthy diet, positive lifestyle and medications as prescribed by your doctor. As the thyroid problems are lifelong disorders, so try to reduce the time after getting significant improvement. For example, 15 minutes a day just for maintenance.

KINTSUGI : A Metaphor for life

Have you heard of Kintsugi?

Kintsugi is the custom of repairing broken things with liquid gold, silver or lacquer dusted with gold to bring together the pieces of the fractured pottery while at the same time enhancing its breaks. This process not only fixes the cracks but dramatically increases the value of the piece and usually results in something more beautiful than the original.

Kintsugi means “golden joinery” or “to patch with gold.” The process is also related to the Japanese philosophy wabi-sabi.

Life lessons we can draw from this ancient art:

You need glue

“Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” If we treat our emotional wounds with forgiveness and love, the healing of that wound will bring great value and strength to our life.

A simple, peaceful life is inadequate without the companionship of delightful company and occasions to enjoy with convivial people.

Are there pieces missing?

In Kintsugi, sometimes you discover that, when reconstructing a broken item, a piece is missing. If that happens, the missing piece can be created from rock dust and flour, mixed with lacquer, making a new piece to fill in the gap. The rock dust is called “tonoko.”

Your past is like a puzzle; examine, number, and assemble the pieces. Look at your personal history not so as to ruminate on your wounds, but to be more realistic and to rebuild yourself. 

Complete the repair with help from others.

To fill in gaps the mixture enriches and completes the final product. The same is true of our emotional wounds. We need to turn to our friends for help. Invite a trusted friend to your house to drink coffee and talk about your problems. Integrate your family and friends into your life, along with all the people who are an inspiration to you, for whatever reason.

A metaphor for life

“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen

When something breaks, it is changed forever. Shape, structure, form and function may all be affected, and the way it is put back together, the bonds forged to fix it, become as much a part of its new incarnation, as its older parts.

As a metaphor for personal development and healing, kintsugi is a powerful symbol, and is becoming an increasingly popular theme in the world of wellbeing and psychology. In an age when we are all too focused on perfection and strength, kintsugi teaches us that imperfection and fragility are two things to be celebrated. Increasingly, you can find these concepts being translated into life-coaching, counselling, art therapy, sports theory and team coaching, and even business management techniques and self-development.

An authentic life

KINTSUGI encourages us to live a full, rich life because we are not afraid of the things that might break us. Just as a ceramic is fragile, beautiful and strong, so are we. And just as ceramics can break, so too can they be repaired. “Ceramics and life can break into a thousand pieces, but that should be no reason to stop living life intensely, working intensely and keeping alive all our hopes and dreams,” says Navarro. “Adversity is nothing more than a challenge, so do some training to overcome it.”

Celebrating imperfections

“We humans are fragile; susceptible to breaks and knocks. Discover how to pick up the pieces and repair what may have been damaged in your life. Find out how to embrace your emotional scars and make them beautiful. They are proof that you have suffered; let them remind you that you are strong,” Embrace Your Imperfections and Find Happiness.

Turbulences are Inevitable

“Do not try to live a pleasant life without suffering.”

“Because if you, do you will be resigning yourself to surviving instead of living intensely.” Essentially, the first step to practicing kintsugi is to take risks – you can’t be scared of getting damaged along the way because it’s inevitable.

Think about the future

“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”  It’s good to confront hard times, once they pass it’s best to leave them behind you instead of dwelling on things.

The Kintsugi Takeaway – The master artist can only engage in Kintsugi’s transformational process if they focus on what is possible rather than on what is impossible.

“The importance in Kintsugi is not the always the physical appearance, it is… the beauty and the importance 

The poet Robert Pinsky once said: "Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are."

The story of 3 laughing monks.

 “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand”.

Once upon a time there lived three unnamed monks in ancient China. They were given the name of the three laughing monks because when asked about their names, they would not answer but laugh. They were poor and without worldly goods or fine clothing but were full of joy. The three monks used to travel together and do nothing but laugh.

They used to enter a village or a town, stand at the Centre of its main square and start laughing. Looking at them, slowly but surely people who lived or worked in the surroundings couldn’t resist and had to start laughing as well. Then others would also get the infection and eventually the whole village or town would laugh along. Then the monks would move to another place.

The old monks believed that laughter was their only prayer and their teachings as they would not utter a word to the folks but laugh. All over China, they were loved and respected. They believed that there have not been any such spiritual teachers till today. According to them, one should always take life to be the greatest opportunity to laugh.

So, they travelled and laughed for many years spreading joy and happiness throughout China. Until one day while being at a particular village in the northern province, one of them died.

The people were shocked and came running from afar leaving the fields unattended for the day only to witness the other two monks’ reaction to this dramatic event.
They were expecting them to show sorrow or even cry and the whole village came to the place where the three monks were.

Two alive and one DEAD!

But the two remaining monks were laughing only harder.
They were laughing and laughing and could not seem to stop.

So that a few of the good people who were assisting to this scene in this belief approached them and asked them why they weren’t mourning at all for their deceased friend.

And for one time the monks actually responded “Because yesterday on our way to your village he proposed the bet on who of us would beat the other two and die first and now he won, The old rogue, he even had a testament prepared.

The tradition required washing the dead and change his clothes before putting him on the funeral pyre.

But the old monk had explicitly asked to leave the old clothes on him.

Since he had never been filthy for one day, I never allowed any of the filth of this world to reach me through my laughter” his testament stated.

So the old man’s body was placed on the pyre with the garments he was wearing when he had arrived and as the fire was lit and started licking on his clothes.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. — Victor Borge

To everyone’s astonishment, suddenly fireworks of a hundred colours went exploding up and down and to all directions and finally, the people who had gathered there also joined the laughter of the two wise men.

So always give a little laughter. Face your problems with a smile on. Create a ripple of laughter wherever you are. There is a very deep cause for laughter. Boredom and laughter are the polar dualities, these are the polar opposites. They go together. And man is the only animal that is bored.

The mystical energy of mantras

"Realize your dreams Achieve your goals”

Dreams – the reason why we are living.

Regular chanting of mantras is believed to wipe out fear, anger and depression, and help relieve disorders of the respiratory, digestive, reproductive, circulatory, speech, intellectual and cognitive systems. Vedic chanting is said to help develop one's mental powers and strength, ease stress, and take one to a higher level of consciousness. Chanting also improves one's memory and power of concentration, so crucial if one wants to be an achiever.

The mystical energy of mantras is as intact today as it was thousands of years ago. All you need to know is how to invoke a mantra. This book ( Mystique Vibrations - 2 ) tells you how.

• The origin of mantras.
• Why and how mantras work.
• How to choose a mantra and invoke it.
• How to succeed in mantra sadhana without a human guru, and
• Everything else you need to know about mantra yoga.

जीवन जीने के नियम

 जीवन के प्रमुख नियम

कभी – कभी बहुत छोटी-छोटी बातें बहुत काम की होती हैं। इन बातों को मानकर और उनका पालन कर व्यक्ति जीवन में आगे बढ़ सकता है।

सफलता का माध्यम स्वस्थ तन और मन ही है। व्यस्त रहो, मस्त रहो और स्वस्थ रहो।

मौज लो, रोज लो❗ 

नहीं मिले तो खोज लो‼

BUSY पर BE-EASY भी रहो।

The Ascent of progress in life

Live A Progressive Life.

Surely everybody believes in progress?

Progress may not be constant, linear or easy, but a progressive believes things can get better, and that such progress can be ‘continuing and cumulative’.

I wonder how few people can stand still in hard times. Is there any trait of being a progressive human? Or some unique men & women are made up of the same metal used as the core of our earth. Anyway, in both cases, the learnings are the same.

Most of us have a tendency to die several times before death actually knocks on our doors. It’s crazy but true. The heart pumps harder with the fear of uncertainty.

Well, many of us may leave to follow their dreams. And most of us may move to a more comfortable life. And almost every one of us drops the desire to live their dreams after a hard-punched failure.

The days and nights will try to wallop you, and the world still tests your integrity at every possible state.

And after a series of devastating and soul-tearing events, when you finally came near to the fruit of your hardwork – destiny will again test your honesty to prove your eligibility.

Wait with patience & Act with perseverance

Everybody & everything will try to strike you, but you must wait with patience and act with perseverance.

The rigid and the most brittle metal breaks first, under pressure. And those who do not praise the change always suffer from the change of time. Everything new is havoc for these people.

But few who always embrace a new perspective prosper with the grace of change. They remain happy and content every time and situation.

10 things which can help to make living a progressive one.

1) Be honest with yourself: You must know what you are cut out to do! You are either good at something or you are not! There is no in between. You can do some things but you can’t do all things. Even the age old saying, ‘jack of all trade and master of none’, is not a compliment anyone can be proud of. Therefore, know your gifting's and talents, stick to pursuing them.

2) Stop trying to be someone you are not:  Don’t pursue a career, job or any endeavor because your friend or someone else excels in/at it. Don’t be a carbon copy of another person; you become a waste of space when you do so. It reminds me of the number of people who want to look like and be like Michael Jackson and other renowned celebrities.

3) Tackle problems, don’t run from them: Face your problems head on; ask yourself pertinent questions. Are you the cause of your problems or is someone else the cause? Do you need to stop doing the same thing over and over again in order to get a different result? Look for every way to solve the problem rather than passing the buck. In fact, I have read material and listened to enough teachings to understand that success in life results from solving problems for oneself and others.

4) Do away with the wrong people: The wrong people put you down and do not add to you. To make progress in life you must be a solution to someone’s challenges, and also connect with people who are a solution to your challenges. Look for people who encourage you to do great things.

5) Let go of the past, grab the present and work on the future: If you are holding on to the past, you will not be able to take hold of the present, and the future may forever remain unattainable. God knew what He was getting before He took you on, so if He’s not caught unaware by your faults then cut yourself some slack too.

6) Stop being idle: Get up and go! Seek and implement ideas that will bless humanity.
What are you passionate about? What gives you pain? Dig deep within and come up with answers. Take responsibility for your own life, with God on your side you can make things happen. Whatever you do, don’t sit there doing nothing, do something!

7) Don’t be afraid of making a mistake: No baby wakes up one day to start walking; babies crawl and stumble many times in the process of learning to walk. If you are to make progress then you will surely make mistakes. The fact that your last attempt at business failed does not mean you shouldn’t take another shot at it. Glean from others, do your research, and move on into the ideas that cross your mind.

8) Don’t buy into the thought that you’re not ready:  If you have to wait for the perfect time, you may miss out on your season. Each and every one of us have to get beyond our comfort zones to achieve progress.

9) Be open to new relationships: You never know when God will bring a destiny helper your way; someone who will push you into your destiny. Do not let past relationships that failed deter you from getting into new ones.

10) Desist from worrying so much:  if something is not going to matter in 1, 3 or 10 years, it’s probably not worth worrying over. Worrying is poison to the human system; so, stay clear of it.