Four Yin Yang Mudras

I am told in my studies that there is an inner masculine and an inner feminine within our energy bodies and when those currents of energies are balanced and integrated, a third energy is spontaneously created and it rises up our wisdom channel and by practicing any form of oneness, it leads us to cosmic awareness.

The practice I am about to share already exists in various schools of yoga and the combination of these hand movements which are called mudras have positive healing effects and is a fundamental yin yang modality that is required to achieve oneness and cosmic awareness.

It is simple, easy to do and takes only ten minutes to practice.  Regular practice before meditation will lead to beneficial meditation benefits.

Balancing and integrating the left and right currents

The left or female (negative) current is supposed to be cool and the right (positive) current is masculine and is supposed to be warm. In extreme situations the left current can be cold and the right can be hot. One can think of it as a fully charged battery with a positive and negative current. Hook up the negative and positive currents and the battery works.

It is the same principle with the human body. When the left feminine and right masculine current are balanced and integrated or hooked up, the person becomes energised.

When the left or right is out of balance and the energies are depleted due to stress or exhaustion then the person can and will experience strokes or breakdowns.  

And if the currents are too hot or too cold, the body will malfunction.

There is an old saying in the Tao, when the two becomes one, then the ten thousand appears. This means the person who has integrated their left and right currents and activated their wisdom channel become strong and can create or manifest many things with desire and action.

The ida is the left feminine and negative current. The pingala is the right masculine and positive current. Balance and integrate the left and right currents and the middle channel known as the sushumna or wisdom channel is awakened. In spiritual circles, this is known as the inner marriage or the Tao, when the two becomes one.

In various schools, there are different methods of balancing and integrating the inner male and female and there are some immediate benefits.

The practices of these mudras are sourced from the Indian continent and come from a long history of yogic practice and have been proven to be beneficial. So we are not reinventing the wheel here, but merely selecting mudras or hand movements which when practiced holistically have a cumulative benefit.

Mudras work on the same principle as foot reflexology. There are important points in the fingers which awaken energies and promote their flow in the body’s energy meridians.

What are the benefits of these mudras

Firstly one becomes more centred and calmer. And the practice of quiet meditation becomes easier.

Secondly the wisdom channel is activated and the spiritual life force gently and spontaneously rises the middle channel without any resistance. And it then rises to the head and out to the cosmos in a vertical line.

This is seen as two spirals wrapped around each other. And the participant begins to experience cosmic awareness beyond the five earthly senses. The veil lifts and we are than aware that we share this universe with various intelligent cosmic beings. The greatest discovery of our lifetime will be that we are not alone in this universe. 

Below is a write-up about Dr. Jacques Valle, NASA Scientist

Valle codeveloped the very first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA. He is also noted for his work at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), where he helped create ARPANET, a technology that became the foundation for the modern day internet.

He also supports the extraterrestrial hypothesis as one explanation for the UFO phenomenon, meaning that some of these UFOs are indeed intelligently controlled, remotely or not, by extraterrestrial beings.

One of his many published papers, written in the late 90s, appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” It offers a comprehensive look at the oddities military pilots encounter when they are ordered to intercept one of these UFOs. (Related CE Article: Here’s What Happens When a UFO Is Tracked on Military Radar.)

Valle’s latest work includes a recently published analysis of 500 UFO cases from biblical antiquity to 1879 before the development of modern industry. That was published in his book Wonders of the Sky.

Source: True Disclosure.org

Last week, we shared this practice with a small group.  One of the participants said that towards the end of the 10 minute practice, tried as he wanted to, he could not think. He did not have any thoughts. He was calm, centred and thoughtless. That was surprising. These three attributes are necessary for a successful meditation practice.

One lady said she felt a lot of heat leaving her body. She was recovering from high blood pressure and had felt “heaty” and was pleasantly surprised to feel her body temperature returning to normal.

I recall an earlier session I had with a young twenty-one year-old lady at a wellness centre in Kuala Lumpur.

She had cold hands ever since she was twelve. The parents had taken her to countless doctors and traditional Ayurvedic treatment – still, her hands remained cold.

When she learned the four balancing movements, she could feel the coldness receding from the shoulders to her arms – and experienced a 75% reduction of coldness in her hands. I hope she is still practicing this modality. Cases like hers are quite rare.

This practice can be done on a daily basis or at least three to four times a week. It leads to a calm and centred mind and this is beneficial for the meditation practice that comes after. Each mudra takes only two to three minutes. Within ten minutes you are done.  Make this the normal practice template.  The meditation practice after is optional.

There are people who are practicing these mudras and they say that sometimes they intuitively feel like extending the time on each mudra – from two minutes to five. Trust your intuition.  There are times when you exhaust or tire out the body. So the body naturally needs more recharging.

Yoni Mudra. The first Mudra releases suppressed emotions kept in the womb and lower body by females or in the lower body organs by males. A clairvoyant observed one of the participants and she saw tiny black dots leaving the lower body.  The tiny black dots represent anger, frustration, shame, humiliation and general unhappiness.

The two thumbs are placed at the belly button.

As we know ladies have unique problems in their womb – fibroids, endometriosis and cysts. Medical science recognises the symptoms but cannot with 100% certainty identify the source of these problems.

We can for certain say that these are due to cellular mutation.  What causes the cellular mutation? There is a growing link between unresolved emotions and cellular issues in medical literature – and we have anecdotal evidence that unresolved emotions are the culprit.

We can say that these medical issues are cells gone wild. There is a complementary therapy where people are encouraged to talk positively and appreciate their cells and body organs.  When we expose our cells and organs to negative or chaotic thoughts consistently - like reading the newspapers in the morning - then clairvoyants can see black and grey energies flowing to the organs.

That's when dis-ease begins.  Add to that an unhealthy diet, the lack of exercise, polluted air, heavy metals in our water that we drink, emotionally abusive relationships, exposure to electromagnetic radiation from our handphones and wireless modems - you have the classic recipe for the body falling sick. 

The second Mudra balances the left current.  Some people can feel energy leaving the right palm which faces downwards. That means there is excessive left or feminine energy. And once that has cleared, they can feel incoming energy on the left palm.

  

After two minutes, the energy situation goes back to normal. Eventually after more practice, there is more sensitivity and intuitively people are guided to stay in the mudra longer. 

If the person has more incoming energy on the left palm and less going out, it shows that the left feminine channel is depleted and the person has probably undergone a lot of emotional challenges which has left them sad and feeling empty.

The third Mudra balances the right current. If there is insufficient energy, the participant will feel a lot of energy entering the right palm and filling it up.  If the person has excessive right or masculine energy, then the excessive energy will leave the palm on the left facing the sky. It is at this time that some people feel a lot of heat leaving the body.

The fourth Mudra is known as the Shivalinga Mudra. The first mudra clears emotional energy. The left and right are then balanced. And now the final mudra brings the whole energy field into balance and integration – here is where oneness begins. 

The right hand forms a fist and sits on the left palm.These hands are then placed at the navel and held in position for also two minutes. The masculine right hand is sitting gently and supported by the feminine left palm.  You see the inner male and inner female need each other. One cannot exist and act without the other.

One participant began to feel a cool breeze emerging from his head.  This meant that his life force energy had gently emerged from the tailbone area in a harmonious manner and any blockages in his energy centers had been cleared and rebalanced to allow the wisdom life force to emerge unblocked all the way to his head.

With regular practice, there will be a satisfied and calm feeling even though the body is now fully charged.  Continuous and diligent practice before meditation will lead the practitioner to greater depths of relaxation and altered states of consciousness – leading to youthfulness and calmness.

He or she begins to gradually connect with the inner light and access his or her highest potential - and importantly begins to materialise that potential in his or her life. 

A natural spontaneous intelligence begins to act out of this oneness and intuitively the practitioner begins unknowingly the practice of wu-wei or ritambhara pragya. He now acts in rhythm with the harmony of the universe. 

His actions become almost effortless as synchronicities begin to take place in his or her life. And as he or she follows the trail of the synchronicities, he or she will be lead to a more expanded awareness and flow of life.

Feedback from Sujata S - 15th June 2017

I was first introduced to the Yin and Yang Mudras when I had met Andrew for the first time. Even in that first session, I could feel the different energies flowing through.  The meditation was quite deep yet peaceful for me.  Each mudra brought a deeper awareness of what was flowing through.  At the fourth mudra, I could feel a rather cool energy at the base of my spine.  My third eye chakra was buzzing away!

Since then, I have been practicing the mudras few times a week.  I feel so much more centred and grounded.  There is a sense of deep peace and calmness within me.  I have realised, as well,  that doing these mudras in a group setting intensifies the energies flowing through. I would definitely be practicing these Yin and Yang mudras on a daily basis.  

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As part of her preparation to fulfil her life purpose as a teacher and facilitator, Sujatha has completed her certifications in:

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UPDATE 17th January 2017

Andrew:

I regularly receive articles from an inspiring newsletter called Uplift. There was an inspiring article by Sonia Gomes.  Here is the article written by her.

We need to balance the masculine and feminine energies in our society.

Sonia Gomes 17^th January 2017

The Sacred Feminine Aspect

The female energy is crucial to the balance and awareness of the collective, and to the growth and the transcendence of the individual. The retrieval of the sacred feminine energy is something essential for both women and men.

The loss of feminine energy is a serious problem for men. The absence or repression of the feminine aspects in a man reduces his emotional depth and is a source of discontent, loneliness, and a feeling of meaninglessness.

Losing touch with feminine aspects is also, of course, a serious problem for women. This affects their natural way of being and the search for their identity.

The feminine aspect brings growth for the individual and society as a whole.

A woman who knows the moon goddess becomes aware of their own lunar phases. She is aware of the cyclical rhythms of her body, and behaves according to the ebb and flow of energy and to the moods that are constantly changing. It recognizes and admits its own lunar nature.

Maiden, Mother and Crone are part of the cycle of birth, life and death and represent the forces of creation, maintenance and destruction, which therefore represent the cycle of life and nature. This cycle is present in all human experiences, and especially in the psyche of women.

The goddess, in the history of mankind, has left an everlasting mark in the human psyche and, even if she is not religiously worshiped, she is still an indelible and a strong archetypal presence.

The Rise and Fall of the Goddess

With the advent of patriarchal religion and the consequent loss of reverence for the goddess, the conscious development of women was significantly blocked. Slowly she began to worship gods made by men; the values of the men became their values; the attitudes of men to justify the subordination of women have become their values.

The loss of the relationship with the goddess led to the adoption of masculine characteristics. Femininity was occupied by feminism, and, the pursuit of equal rights distorted to a match with the male nature.

To restore the image of the goddess seems to be a herculean task because patriarchy is not willing to share its power. Still, the past decades have seen significant changes. The lifting efforts of the feminist movement brought the awareness to the battlefront of the need for equality between women and men. The attributes of women have been included in other roles than that of wife and mother.

Today we live in a phallic world and the dominant images are of wealth, power and technology.  These present themselves as gods to be worshipped, instead of love, beauty, sexual ecstasy, and numinous experiences. The real cure for this phallic world is the retrieval of the sacred feminine and the transformation of the inner world of the human being.

Buddhism in the West is still very recent and new. The renowned British historian Arnold Toynbee, who died in 1975, said that the arrival of Buddhism in the West was the biggest event of the twentieth century.

Along with this phenomenon, there happens to be also a greater inclusion of women in society. The presence of women is very welcome, it’s a breath of fresh air and expands perspectives. There is a strong female presence in Western Buddhism, with a high percentage of both teachers and students being women.

The female presence should aid in the active construction of society, and the manifestation of qualities such as compassion, care, protection, and love. Although these qualities are not restricted to the female gender, having a stronger female presence in society can help build a more just and equitable world.

It is time to create a world without discrimination, and develop peaceful and harmonious societies. And for this to happen, a new paradigm must support the appreciation of the feminine principle.


UPDATE 29th May 2017

Andrew:

I saw this very interesting post and I thought why not put it here for people to read, ruffle a few feathers and wake people from their comfort zone.  I salute Naledi Chirwa because she is taking back her feminine power as symbolised by her sexual organ.

In Malaysia, we don't have this narrative out in the open and so we haven't a clue as to what is going on in other parts of the world. What moves us is when the price of petrol goes up and almost everyone rushes to the petrol station...

ThisIsMyVagina: Inspiration for women in a male-dominated world

Shaazia Ebrahim 09 May 2017 18:12

EFFSC national spokesperson Naledi Chirwa. (Facebook)

Naledi Chirwa, the national spokesperson of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC), told women and girls to take ownership of their vaginas.

She was at a women-only gathering for the anniversary of the Free Sanitary Towel Campaign at the University of Limpopo in April. She urged women to remember that their bodies are their own. This simple statement sparked  #ThisIsMyVagina. She spoke to The Daily Vox about the hashtag.

On that day we went in with the women and broke it down, practising black radical feminism in the spaces that we occupy, saying that males must not come was a very powerful position. 

The leadership of the EFF in the SRC said “this is a gathering for women, and for black women in particular,” and it was really successful. The message was basically about agency.

#ThisIsMyVagina speaks to the societal conditions of women; it speaks to the economic conditions of women and academic and religious conditions as well. Women don’t have the agency of free opportunity that should exist in equal society, in equal environments.

Black women in the country are the majority, which means they are the bulk of the labour force in the country. And yet they are still subjected to ludicrous standards in the workplace: they get paid the least across many industries when they have the same qualifications and experience as their male counterparts.

#ThisIsMyVagina is also about the rape debacle and about sex workers, who are criminalised and violated for their choice of trade – all of this while economic and gender imbalances are not addressed. We are calling out all of these things because at the end of the day, it is black women who are on the harsh end of the justice system and economic inequality.

Rape culture has been normalised. So black women go through rape and they don’t even pick it up sometimes. And when they do, they can’t even report it because, sometimes, the authorities say it’s not enough.

Calling out and taking back ownership of our bodies is actually something that #ThisIsMyVagina speaks directly to, because violence against us is not legitimate until we are dead and black women are being killed on a daily basis. Black trans women and queer women - our gender performance is criminalised because society believes our bodies are not ours. 

We get violated when we do with our bodies things that don’t adhere to the standards society has set for us regarding the performance of gender and how to perform in relationships. Even those women who don’t subvert get violated because these bodies don’t belong to us. We have to take ownership of these bodies because we have to counter the violence that we face.

#ThisIsMyVagina is revolutionary because we were brought up to believe that our bodies don’t belong to us, we’ve been trained to function in society and please them. As a young girl, you are told to close your legs and not to play at night. You are trained from a very young age that this body does not belong to you.

Saying “this is my vagina” is an awakening moment.

Some people even came up to me to say that “you are promoting promiscuity”, which goes back to the fact that black women’s bodies only exist to pleasure the sexual urges of men.

In the whole session I had not mentioned sex, but men feel that moment particularly goes back to them and includes them in the conversation. Even when we alienate them from the space, and say, “This space is not yours, this vagina is not yours, this is mine,” they still want to find a way to come and take ownership because they’re scared as well.

Their strength, their positionality in society and the economy, is based on us being at the bottom. Us coming up is a threat to them, it’s a threat to the status quo. It’s not comfortable because privilege is common sense to the privileged. When you are privileged, nothing outside your privilege makes sense. That is one thing black men need to actually confront, they must confront this fact.

Some male callers were rankled when Chirwa spoke about the issue on Power FM. One caller said Chirwa’s message invites promiscuity, while another said it could give licence to teen pregnancy.

This is my vagina, that’s it. What I do with it has nothing to do with anyone else; it does not belong to my political party, it does not belong to my girlfriend, it does not belong to my church, it does not belong to my lecturer, it does not belong to my boss, it belongs to me. It’s mine and I should own it. Whatever decisions I make with this vagina are my decisions and you have no choice, no voice over what I do with my vagina, when I do with my vagina or how I do with my vagina because it is mine.

The conversation must keep going. I’m definitely going to engage with black women on this issue time and time again. Because even when I leave those spaces, black women will go back to their boyfriends who abuse them and rape them. It’s a conversation that must continue until society gets comfortable with this decision that we’ve made as black women.

We’re not the first women to preach this message. Charlotte Maxeke was preaching on intersectionality decades ago. It’s something we’re going to continue and that’s going to manifest even in our lives as young people who are active in politics. All these spaces are male-dominated so we are responding to that.

Forever and ever amen. Until economic freedom is reached for black women as well.

Chirwa will speak at the universities of Venda, Witwatersrand and Johannesburg and will also travel to the Eastern Cape. - The Daily Vox

 

Feedback from Mohana Sunthari, 30th May 2017

Highly controversial!!! As far as man is concerned but she (Naledi Chirwa) is restating very clearly what belongs to a woman and that a woman is entitled to deal with her mind, body and soul in the way she wishes. Societal norms of pleasing others doesn't hold water here. We are talking about total freedom and emancipation.

The term used "ThisIsMyVigina" is mind blowing. It hits the crux, the real nature of a woman. It's a great challenge for men. The whole idea of a woman being a chattel and property of a man is questioned. Every man who touches a woman without her freewill should feel ashamed of himself as he is violating the very basis of love and personal right.

May every man realise how inhuman they were when they ill treated their wife, daughter, niece, mother, female employee or any women in their life. We forgive all those males who abused women and send more love to them to balance their masculine energy so they become caring and loving toward all beings.