How does your consciousness vary?
Phase 3: the action of jnāna-mudrā on the lungs
Keep the same gesture of energy, jnāna-mudrā, as described in
phase 2. Always keep your eyes closed. This time become aware of
the vibration in your lungs at the same time. Go from one
position to the other, and try to feel how the vibration varies
inside your chest.
Then try with jnāna-mudrā (index and thumb joined) in the right
hand only and the other hand flat. Awareness in the eye,
awareness in the chest. Continue for half a minute. Compare the
energy in each of the lungs.
Then swap. Take jnāna-mudrā with the left hand and keep the
right hand flat. Become aware of the vibration in the eye and in
each side of the chest. Compare with the former position.
Keep on going from one position to the other for a few minutes,
exploring the variations of energy in your body in general and in
your lungs in particular.
Tips, tricks and traps
- The ‘prayer’ gesture of phase 1 often gives the feeling that your
energy is more concentrated, more vertical, like a column. - I have noticed with many people that this jnāna-mudrā (literally,
‘gesture of knowledge’) seems to have a direct action on the energy
of their lungs, which fits rather well with the fact that in
acupuncture, the Lung Meridian is said to terminate on the thumb.
Students often describe the vibration in their lungs as more
intense or denser, reinforced, more closed... when the gesture is
implemented.
Now, a riddle: some people seem to find it easier to breathe when
they do jnāna-mudrā. Others, on the contrary, find it a little
more difficult to breathe. How can this be so? The answer is in
section 6.13, at the end of this chapter.
6.9 The energy between your hands
Sit up with your back straight, your hands facing each other in
front of you. At no point in this exercise do the hands touch,
there is always space between them.
Become aware of the vibration in your eye and in your hands.
Breathe with the throat friction to amplify the vibration and
connect the hands to the eye.