How to Perform & Benefits of Padma Mudra

Padma Mudra is also known as the lotus gesture; the lotus gesture is to enlighten you from darkness to light. Padma Mudra teaches us to love and grow with calmness. Like the lotus flower has many qualities as beauty, growth, and purity; the same way this asana gives your life a new path from darkness to light. Padma Mudra is a pose made while performing meditation to cultivate feelings of lovingness. Both your hands in this mudra looks like a lotus blossoming flower. Your fingers resemble the petals, and the heels of the hands represent the base of the flower. The hand gesture in this pose denotes the Hindu deity Goddess Lakshmi, who showers her grace over a devotee by good fortune and wealth. Padma Mudra brings happiness, compassion, and feelings of gratitude to one’s heart. Padma Mudra encourages the consistency of ground to earth. By practicing Padma Mudra regularly, a peaceful ambiance is created all around us. Padma Mudra must be practiced with full devotion and dedication. It must be performed in relaxed surroundings with a positive attitude or vibrations of your inner soul and mind.

Benefits of Padma Mudra

By practicing Padma Mudra, your inner light will rise gradually. It has several benefits if practiced daily. It gives you the ability to grow and live clean and clear with transparency, just like lotus grows in mud and inspires all humanity as a whole. Padma Mudra is actually an inspiration for all humans. It gives you affirmation when you chant the devotional mantras or a positive statement regularly with the cyclic movements. And indeed, you will start emerging from the seed and fully blossoms like a full lotus flower.

1. It opens up the Anahata or heart chakra.
2. It gives your heart energy, which fills the qualities of joy, kindness, peace, love, compassion, and a sense of gratitude.
3. Padma Mudra provides a sense of fertility, purity, and stability.
4. Transforms the fearful nature of the person into an inspired and motivated heart towards life.
5. Improves your concentration and determination.
6. You can rise above your life’s challenges with ease and grace.

Steps to do Padma Mudra

One can efficiently perform Padma Mudra by following the steps given below:

1. Get involved in a calm and peaceful place to perform this hand gesture. Remember, the site must be open.
2. Begin with a sitting pose in a comfortable posture such as sukhasana, padmasana, and vrajasana. You can also do it in the standing pose called tadasana. Then relax and be ready for the pose.
3. Bring your hands in front of your chest in Anjali Mudra.
4. Open up your fingers like your little and thumb fingers will touch each other of the hands.
5. The rest of the fingers will remain apart from each other, just like a blossoming lotus flower.
6. Keep the heels of your both hands pressing each other.
7. Now, you can close your eyes and start chanting om word by breathing deeply for deep concentration.
8. Practice the Padma Mudra regularly for 10 to 15 minutes to get optimum results.
9. You can add different mantras of goddess Lakshmi in Padma Mudra.