• Press the hands together gently leaving a small hollow space between palms; hold hands over the heart and draw the forearms parallel to floor
  
• Benefits - Invokes connection between our light and the light within others
  
• Practice Tips - Use to honor yourself or another person, also helpful for anxiety
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• Place palms beside each other, little fingers touching, press thumbs into base of index finger, hold other fingers together; place hands at solar plexus
  
• Benefits - Increases ability to receive, respiration
  
• Practice Tips - Use with difficulty accepting help from others
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• Rest cupped left hand in cupped right hand; rest hands in the lap
  
• Benefits - Induces a feeling of surrender and peace
  
• Practice Tips - Use when feeling fear or anxiety
• Contraindications - Low blood pressure
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• Touch the tips of all fingers together and sense the energetic connection between the fingers and palms
  
• Benefits - Engages the witness consciousness, directs breath into the entire body
  
• Practice Tips - Use when suffering from "monkey mind"
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JNANA MUDRA (Wisdom)

• Touch the tips of thumb and index fingers toether, extend middle, ring and little fingers; rest backs of hands on thighs
  
• Benefits - Helps with concentration and meditation, helps to calm circular thougts
  
• Practice Tips - Use when suffering from "monkey mind", stress, fear and anxiety
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• Cross the left wrist in front of the right and interlace the thumbs together, splay the other fingers over the upper chest
  
• Benefits - Balances the right and left sides of the body, creates a sense of freedom
  
• Practice Tips - Use when you feel stuck
• Contraindications - High blood pressure use caution and monitor
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• Begin in Anjali Mudra
• Create space between plams keeping finger tips, thumbs and heels of hands together; hold at the heart
• Benefits - Activates the heart center
• Practice Tips - Use when depressed
• Contraindications - Headache
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• Rest cupped right fingers in cupped left hand, gently touch tips of thumbs together creating a circle; sense the energy within this mandala
  
• Benefits - Encourages the meditative state
  
• Practice Tips - Use when feeling overly emotional
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• Place hands together at the heart, keep thumbs and little fingers together, open other fingers and create cup shape between palms
  
• Benefits - Elevates heart energy, integrates body and mind
  
• Practice Tips - Use yo heal your emotional heart
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• Cup hands with little and ring fingertips together creating a bowl shape
  
• Benefits - Compassion, generosity, giving
  
• Practice Tips - Use as an offering to a loved ones
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• Cup hands with left underneath right, create a hollow space between palm; hold hands in front of torso
  
• Benefits - Acknowledges the gifts you carry within
  
• Practice Tips - Use when difficult to balance giving with receiving
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