Mudra
Keep your hair on!
Abhay Kumar Shah shows how mudras can help us maintain healthy hair.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Khalil Gibran
We are blessed by nature with a crown of hair on our head.
A mane of thick and lustrous hair adds to a person’s looks, be they male or female. Conversely, thin, dull hair undermines one’s personality. It also indicates ill health.
Let us understand how Mudra Therapy views hair health. The strength of the Prithvi (Earth) Element decides the health of the hair. If it is strong, our hair will be strong, thick, shiny, and black. Growth of the hair will also be faster and will be healthier for a longer duration.
Hairs have their roots in the skin of the scalp. If that skin is not healthy, it loses its grip on the roots of the hair. If it becomes dry and, eventually, dead, dandruff occurs. Dandruff is nothing but particles of dead skin. Dandruff, in itself, is not a disease but just a symptom of dry scalp skin. Weakening of the Earth Element and an undernourished scalp are the major reasons for unhealthy hair. Loss of hair, dandruff, splitting of hair ends, slow growth of hair, greying of hair, and dry and wire-hard hair are the problems that one commonly faces.
It is often seen that a person who has hyperacidity faces problems of hair loss or greying hair not in accordance with their age. Also, a person who drinks an insufficient amount of water gets dandruff, and the one who doesn’t get enough sleep suffers from a lack of blood circulation to the head and, consequently, unhealthy hair.
Now let us address these issues with the help of Mudra Therapy.
Greying
To avoid the untimely greying of hair, the best combination of mudras is as follows:
Jnana Mudra, 16 minutes a day.
Prithvi Mudra, 30 minutes + Prana Mudra, 10 minutes, thrice a day.
Practising Prithvi Mudra, 48 minutes + Prana Mudra, 16 minutes, twice a day can result in turning recently greyed hair to black. Old greyed hair may take a longer time. It prevents greying too.
Dry and dull hair
Prithvi Mudra, 30 minutes + Prana Mudra, 10 minutes, along with Varun Mudra, 16 minutes, twice or thrice a day. This will make dry and dull hair silky and shiny.
For good hair growth
Prithvi Mudra, 30 minutes + Prana Mudra, 16 minutes a day.
Dandruff
Varun Mudra, 30 minutes, Prana Mudra, 16 minutes, and Prithvi Mudra, 16 minutes, twice or thrice a day. This combination majorly helps in the treatment of dandruff.
Hair fall
Prithvi Mudra, 48 minutes + Prana Mudra, 16 minutes a day. This is a proven formula to stop falling hair.
You can see that the army to fight hair issues consists of only four soldiers: Prithvi Mudra, Varun Mudra, Prana Mudra, and Jnana Mudra. Anyone practising these four mudras even for other reasons can benefit in the hair department too.
Formation
Prithvi Mudra: Touch the tip of the ring finger to the tip of the thumb, keeping the remaining three fingers comfortably straight. Place the back of your palms on your knees or thighs.
Varun Mudra: Touch the tip of the little finger to the tip of the thumb, keeping the remaining three fingers comfortably straight. Place the back of your palms on your knees or thighs.
Prana Mudra: Touch the tips of the ring finger and the little finger to the tip of the thumb, keeping the remaining two fingers comfortably straight. Place the back of your palms on your knees or thighs.
Jnana Mudra: Touch the tip of the index finger to the tip of the thumb, keeping the remaining three fingers comfortably straight. Place the back of your palms on your knees or thighs.
Other recommendations
Drink lots of water and other liquids. Keep stress at bay and get enough sleep.
Consume leafy vegetables and fruits. Avoid late nights, eating and late night shopping. All this will go a long way in promoting the growth of healthy hair.