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RE: Me and My Breath: 4 Steps of Breath Meditation 🧘🏼♂️🧘🏼♀️
Neither mountain nor valley is the Zen rule for the Dhyana mudra.
That means your thumbs should not point up, like in the picture, nor should they sink down, but form a straight, levelled line.
Thank You likedeeler 🙏🏼. Agree - there are over 100 mudras with each having their own effects on the mind and body.
The five fingers of the hand are suggested to be linked with the five vital elements in the body: heat, gases, space, earth & liquid. With five fingers then many different mudras (position) are possible with varieties of effects. For example, the two mudras shown (dhyana and jnana or gyana) improve deeper concentration and memory and bring peace and tranquility. Someone with significant emotional issue may find shuni mudra much more helpful. But as I had meditation naive / beginners in mind while writing this I didn’t wanted information overload. So suggesting that any hand positioning is fine at the beginning. I do sometime practice with hands straight in level as you said - amazing how vast the knowledge is stored within this body, we just need to tune into it 😊
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