Hand Awareness

We use our hands for many different tasks. We explore the tactile world with our hands. We gesticulate with our hands. The yogic adept describes heightened states of awareness with hand-symbols (mudras). We reach out to others with our hands. Our hands know how to surrender. The child and the adult consult textures through fervent fingers and eager palms, or fervent palms and eager fingers. The quadruped and the biped both benefit from having hands.

Hand Awareness--or HA for short--helps us activate the dormant intelligence of our five fingers. When the intelligence of the hands is awakened, we start feeling the multidimensional reality of the world. Surfaces are transformed into tactile expressions of immense depth and subtlety. The skin becomes a landscape. The felt world becomes more real.

One simple exercise helps us activate the intelligence of the hands. This exercise is as follows:

For a few minutes each day, focus on your hands and only your hands. Focus on the beauty they effortlessly exhibit. Focus on the blood flowing through them. Focus on the convoluted nervous system that teaches them new tricks. Focus on the creative power they act as receivers, transmitters, and conduits for.

Now try to imagine a universe without hand intelligence. Try to imagine a world without "helping hands". It is next to impossible, isn't it?

Conclude the meditation by saying to yourself, "I am grateful for my hands." This exercise will surely awaken in us all the reality of the infinite hand.