05/27/2026
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How to hold the finger mudras. Their benefits and uses
In the diagrams, you can distinguish between the back of the hand and the palm side of the hand by the fingernails: if you can see fingernails, that’s the back; if you can’t, that’s the palm.
Remember to keep your hands, arms, and shoulders as relaxed as possible while holding the finger mudras.
1. Exhaling the Burdens and Blockages (palm side of middle finger)
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Lightly place the whole length of the palm side of your right thumb along the entire length of the palm side of your left middle finger. Wrap the rest of your right fingers around the left middle finger. (Reverse for right middle finger.)
Benefits: Releases generalized tension and stress from head to toe. Helps the exhale so we can empty ourselves of the causes of harmful stagnation and blockages of energy.
Use for: Can’t see too well. Difficult to exhale. Frustrated. Tired all the time. Trouble making decisions. Procrastinate.
2. Inhaling the Abundance (back of middle finger)
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Lightly place the whole length of the palm side of your right thumb along the entire length of the back of left middle finger. Gently wrap the rest of your right fingers around the left middle finger. (Reverse for right middle finger.)
Benefits: Makes it easier to inhale the Breath of Life — our source of abundance (prenatal and postnatal Chi).
Use for: Can’t take a deep breath. Hard of hearing. Feet bothering you. Not as alert as usual. Eyes bothering you.
3. Calming and Revitalizing (palm side of little and ring fingers)
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Place the palm side of your right thumb across the palm side of your left little and ring fingers. Wrap the rest of your right fingers around the left little and ring fingers. (Reverse for right fingers.)
Benefits: Calms the body, releases nervous tension and stress, revitalizes all the organ functions.
Use for: Nervousness. Worry about the heart. If get out of breath when walking. Always “trying-to.” Depressed/never have any fun.
4. Releasing General Daily Fatigue (thumb, index, middle)
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Place the palm side of your right thumb across the back of your left thumb, index and middle fingers. Wrap the rest of your right fingers around the left thumb, index and middle fingers. (Reverse for right thumb and fingers.)
Benefits: Releases fatigue, tension and stress that builds up during the course of the day. Helps release worry, fear, and anger.
Use for: “I get so tired.” Feel insecure about everything (finances, work, relationships). Beginning to feel and look old. Get irritated and angry over nothing. Worry about everything.
5. Total Revitalization (thumb sandwich)
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Make a circle with right middle finger and thumb (palm side of thumb covers middle fingernail). Next, slip your left thumb between your right thumb and right middle finger (the palm side of the left thumb will now cover the right middle fingernail). Note that all three nails are facing in the same direction. I call this the “thumb sandwich.” You can think of the right middle finger and thumb as two slices of bread into which you insert your left thumb as the filling. (Reverse for right thumb.)
Benefits: Revitalizes all the bodily functions. Releases the blockages responsible for daily fatigue.
Use for: Always have uneasy feeling. Nothing seems wrong, but get tired all the time. Problems with complexion. Temperamental. Uncontrollable craving for sweets.
6. Breathing Easily (ring fingernail to thumb)
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Cover your ring fingernails with the palm side of your thumb on both the left and right hands.
Benefits: Strengthens the respiratory function. Helps balance ear projects. Use while walking, jogging, exercising — helps you breathe more easily. Use when flying, high altitudes (for the ears).
Use for: Bad skin conditions. Feel rejected and unloved and tear up easily. Feel clumsy and all thumbs. Lost common sense. Ears bothering you.
7. Exhaling Dirt, Dust, and Greasy Grime (steeple with middle fingers)
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Interlock your fingers. Extend your left and right middle fingers, and adjust your hands so that the palm sides of the middle fingers are touching each other.
Benefits: Releases general daily tension and stress from head, lungs, digestive functions, abdomen, and legs. Strengthens the exhale.
Use for: Harmonizing the total mind/body.
8. Inhaling the Purified Breath of Life (touch middle fingernails)
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Touch left and right middle fingernails together.
Benefits: Releases tension in the back, promotes overall feeling of well being. Strengthens ability to inhale and receive the purified breath of life.
Use for: Harmonizing the total mind/body.
