THE HEALING POWER OF MUDRAS

[10:42, 10/9/2020] Raahul Lakhera: Contents

Preface Understanding Mudras

Ancient Healing Rediscovered

Some Interesting Facts

Mudras and Dance..

Meaning and Purpose of Mudras.

The Practise of Visualisation

Practising Mudras Preferable Accompaniments: Music and Colour

The Meaning of "Namaste"

Mudras in the Martial Arts..

Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Hindu Deities and Mudras

How to do a Mudra

Fingers and Mudras The Yogic Life as Accessory

The Right Diet Helps.

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[10:42, 10/9/2020] Raahul Lakhera: Preface

Life is a series of endless miracles which keep happening in our lives almost all the time. They happen so effortlessly and without warning that they often pass by unrecognised. They visit the humblest as well as the most powerful, without prejudice or favour, and defy all logic and rational explanation

This is my fourth book on healing. In a career spanning over two decades as a journalist and writer, and having led a peripatetic life spanning continents, I have been privy to the most mundane, the colossal bizarre, the malignantly morbid, the ludicrously humorous and the profoundly soul elevating. I have spent quality time on the streets and in brothels and the corridors of the dispossessed while attempting to document their angst and joy. Miracles kept happening in their lives and in mine, in fact all around us, but we simply bypassed their pedigree, remained connected to the real world of cause and effect, and pronounced our everyday judgements.

But it was while researching the process of healing that I fully realised the miracles that were happening in our lives almost all the time. Our bodies are a miracle, birth and death are miracles, and the whole process of healing is a miracle. It is easy to pass it all off as holistic healing', the 'mind-body connection and with other similar jargon Conventional and alternative medicine men also take recourse in rational explanation, but they know that, beyond a point, remissions happen and healing occurs without easy explanation. It is then passed off as divine Intervention