Shunya Mudra for Tinnitus Relief

[Shriniwas]

Hello fellow T-Persisters,

I am 24 year-old Engineer from India and I want to share a practice that actually has alleviated my Tinnitus with lasting improvement. I was surprised TinnitusTalk has no threads discussing this method.

Kindly Read with an open mind and some patience, it's only a five minute read.

It's an Ayurvedic practice called 'Shunya Mudra'.

Ayurveda is a deep science. My brother is an Ayurvedic practitioner and I personally know how effective and durable results are. Let's see a brief preview of Ayurveda principles.

Ayurveda states that various body functions are enabled by three doshas (meaning: defect) viz. Vatha, Pitha and Kapha. Equilibrium of three doshas keeps a person perfectly healthy. Usually a person has natural predominance of one of the doshas and is therefore more susceptible to imbalance of that dosha and to resulting diseases. For example, Pitha imbalance causes gastric diseases, Vatha imbalance causes neurogenic problems (ring a bell?)

These doshas in turn are composed from five basic elements, viz. Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. Below diagram from wikipedia page depicts it nicely.

Pic.1 : Element Composition of Doshas


Tinnitus and other hearing ailments are caused by Vatha imbalance, resulting from excess of ether(space) and air element in our body. These elements (hence Vatha dosha) control nerve cell activity. And we know for a fact that Tinnitus is our nerves going haywire, just as air molecules would go in open space.

I get it, this seems outright BS at this point, how can loud music or excess earwax cause ether element to rise in my body!? But bear with me, please.

Hence, we got to stabilize air and ether element somehow to calm those nerves to normal. That's where this Mudra helps. A lot.

Mudras are finger-gestures aimed at influencing elements in our body. Our fingers are channels to control of these elements as shown in below diagram:

Pic.2 : Elements and Representative Fingers

How to do Shunya Mudra (Illustrated in Pic.3) :

Pic.3 : The Shunya Mudra

1. Plug tip of the middle finger into the bottom crease of thumb
2. Place the thumb over the first phalanx of middle finger
3. Remaining fingers should be stretched out as much as possible

How to practise Shunya Mudra:

Practise Shunya Mudra for 45 minutes a day (that's just about right), in three sessions of 15 minutes, ideally at sunrise, noon and sunset. Make sure you practise symmetrically with both the hands. You can practise in any state i.e. walking, sitting, lying. But it's the most effective when combined with meditation.

I hope you all agree that Meditation is an important factor in mitigating tinnitus. I know it's difficult but you can get help and practise can make it happen.

I have personally experienced a significant reduction in intensity of noise in my ears after practising this mudra. And more importantly, it's a permanent improvement. You must have a lot of faith (in yourself) and discipline. And patience, like you had reading this article.

Do let me know if this helps, See you!

PS: Practise of this mudra should be discontinued once desired results are achieved or if the symptoms aggravate.

 

[Contrast]

do you even science bruh?

 

[Contrast]

Tinnitus and other hearing ailments are caused by Vatha imbalance, resulting from excess of ether(space) and air element in our body. These elements (hence Vatha dosha) control nerve cell activity. And we know for a fact that Tinnitus is our nerves going haywire, just as air molecules would go in open space.

https://www.google.com/search?q=central+gain+tinnitus
wut?

 

[Contrast]

(people actually believe this)

@threefirefour

 

[Shriniwas]

Just google or youtube Shunya Mudra, give it a try and see if it helps.

BTW, Modern day Science has only gotten more and more humble as it has learnt more. I would love to explain how deep and subtle Ayurvedic science is, but it would take time.

 

[Manny]

Hello fellow T-Persisters,

I am 24 year-old Engineer from India and I want to share a practice that actually has alleviated my Tinnitus with lasting improvement. I was surprised TinnitusTalk has no threads discussing this method.

Kindly Read with an open mind and some patience, it's only a five minute read.

It's an Ayurvedic practice called 'Shunya Mudra'.

Ayurveda is a deep science. My brother is an Ayurvedic practitioner and I personally know how effective and durable results are. Let's see a brief preview of Ayurveda principles.

Ayurveda states that various body functions are enabled by three doshas (meaning: defect) viz. Vatha, Pitha and Kapha. Equilibrium of three doshas keeps a person perfectly healthy. Usually a person has natural predominance of one of the doshas and is therefore more susceptible to imbalance of that dosha and to resulting diseases. For example, Pitha imbalance causes gastric diseases, Vatha imbalance causes neurogenic problems (ring a bell?)

These doshas in turn are composed from five basic elements, viz. Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. Below diagram from wikipedia page depicts it nicely.


View attachment 23581
Pic.1 : Element Composition of Doshas


Tinnitus and other hearing ailments are caused by Vatha imbalance, resulting from excess of ether(space) and air element in our body. These elements (hence Vatha dosha) control nerve cell activity. And we know for a fact that Tinnitus is our nerves going haywire, just as air molecules would go in open space.

I get it, this seems outright BS at this point, how can loud music or excess earwax cause ether element to rise in my body!? But bear with me, please.

Hence, we got to stabilize air and ether element somehow to calm those nerves to normal. That's where this Mudra helps. A lot.

Mudras are finger-gestures aimed at influencing elements in our body. Our fingers are channels to control of these elements as shown in below diagram:

View attachment 23578
Pic.2 : Elements and Representative Fingers

How to do Shunya Mudra (Illustrated in Pic.3) :

View attachment 23577
Pic.3 : The Shunya Mudra

1. Plug tip of the middle finger into the bottom crease of thumb
2. Place the thumb over the first phalanx of middle finger
3. Remaining fingers should be stretched out as much as possible

How to practise Shunya Mudra:

Practise Shunya Mudra for 45 minutes a day (that's just about right), in three sessions of 15 minutes, ideally at sunrise, noon and sunset. Make sure you practise symmetrically with both the hands. You can practise in any state i.e. walking, sitting, lying. But it's the most effective when combined with meditation.

I hope you all agree that Meditation is an important factor in mitigating tinnitus. I know it's difficult but you can get help and practise can make it happen.

I have personally experienced a significant reduction in intensity of noise in my ears after practising this mudra. And more importantly, it's a permanent improvement. You must have a lot of faith (in yourself) and discipline. And patience, like you had reading this article.

Do let me know if this helps, See you!

PS: Practise of this mudra should be discontinued once desired results are achieved or if the symptoms aggravate.

Hi Shriniwas, it's great that you experienced relief.
Do you know of any empirical evidence that supports the theories you mentioned, e.g. that tinnitus is due to an excess of ether within the body? I've seen many different claims regarding tinnitus treatments that may help, and people here try to be focus on evidence such as double-blind trials and the like.
Either way, welcome to Tinnitus Talk, and hope you feel good.

 

[Shriniwas]

Hello Manny,

If you are asking where this stuff physically is in our bodies, I am sorry modern science is clueless. As it is with other mystic things such as Chakras and God, for that matter.

These theories were not drafted out of thin air, it's just the deeper side of science. I urge you to browse Ayurveda and other things I mentioned in the post.

As for evidence, I can only personally vouch for this. I am urging you people to try so that we can establish some evidence.

Please try the mudra for a week diligently and with faith. If it doesn't work, I am sorry for wasting your time.

If it helps, hail Ayurveda!

 

[JohnAdams]

To me this makes far more sense than TRT.

 

[ee9892]

Lmao get this bullshit off the forum. How disrespectful to us sufferers.

 

[Ecip]

Hello fellow T-Persisters,

I am 24 year-old Engineer from India and I want to share a practice that actually has alleviated my Tinnitus with lasting improvement. I was surprised TinnitusTalk has no threads discussing this method.

Kindly Read with an open mind and some patience, it's only a five minute read.

It's an Ayurvedic practice called 'Shunya Mudra'.

Ayurveda is a deep science. My brother is an Ayurvedic practitioner and I personally know how effective and durable results are. Let's see a brief preview of Ayurveda principles.

Ayurveda states that various body functions are enabled by three doshas (meaning: defect) viz. Vatha, Pitha and Kapha. Equilibrium of three doshas keeps a person perfectly healthy. Usually a person has natural predominance of one of the doshas and is therefore more susceptible to imbalance of that dosha and to resulting diseases. For example, Pitha imbalance causes gastric diseases, Vatha imbalance causes neurogenic problems (ring a bell?)

These doshas in turn are composed from five basic elements, viz. Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. Below diagram from wikipedia page depicts it nicely.


View attachment 23581
Pic.1 : Element Composition of Doshas


Tinnitus and other hearing ailments are caused by Vatha imbalance, resulting from excess of ether(space) and air element in our body. These elements (hence Vatha dosha) control nerve cell activity. And we know for a fact that Tinnitus is our nerves going haywire, just as air molecules would go in open space.

I get it, this seems outright BS at this point, how can loud music or excess earwax cause ether element to rise in my body!? But bear with me, please.

Hence, we got to stabilize air and ether element somehow to calm those nerves to normal. That's where this Mudra helps. A lot.

Mudras are finger-gestures aimed at influencing elements in our body. Our fingers are channels to control of these elements as shown in below diagram:

View attachment 23578
Pic.2 : Elements and Representative Fingers

How to do Shunya Mudra (Illustrated in Pic.3) :

View attachment 23577
Pic.3 : The Shunya Mudra

1. Plug tip of the middle finger into the bottom crease of thumb
2. Place the thumb over the first phalanx of middle finger
3. Remaining fingers should be stretched out as much as possible

How to practise Shunya Mudra:

Practise Shunya Mudra for 45 minutes a day (that's just about right), in three sessions of 15 minutes, ideally at sunrise, noon and sunset. Make sure you practise symmetrically with both the hands. You can practise in any state i.e. walking, sitting, lying. But it's the most effective when combined with meditation.

I hope you all agree that Meditation is an important factor in mitigating tinnitus. I know it's difficult but you can get help and practise can make it happen.

I have personally experienced a significant reduction in intensity of noise in my ears after practising this mudra. And more importantly, it's a permanent improvement. You must have a lot of faith (in yourself) and discipline. And patience, like you had reading this article.

Do let me know if this helps, See you!

PS: Practise of this mudra should be discontinued once desired results are achieved or if the symptoms aggravate.

Well, people here at Tinnitus Talk are more about hard facts backed by science.

Seeing that you've only had tinnitus for a couple of months, it's very likely that it either cleared up on its own, or due to the relaxing meditation technique if you were subject to stress.

What was the cause of your tinnitus?
But, why not, I'll give it a shot.

 

[Shriniwas]

ee9892, I mean absolutely no disrespect and I am sorry you feel offended. I am only trying to help and am fellow sufferer too. All I am asking is to invest a week or at least a few days. See if it works and then call it BS with total conviction. I will not be offended.

Also, stop calling yourself a sufferer, please. I totally understand how debilitating this is.

 

[JuneStar]

Ayurvedic medicine and practices have been around for thousands of years. Don't be so quick to write it off. And there is no need to be rude.

 

[ee9892]

Ayurvedic medicine and practices have been around for thousands of years. Don't be so quick to write it off. And there is no need to be rude.

This was in the treatment or research forum before it was moved.

I'm sorry but when I'm in the research forum and see a hand with "earth, wind, fire" on the fingers I'm going to call out the person.

Imagine going to a cancer research forum and posting a fucking picture of earth, wind, fire, space, air on fingers. Lmao

 

[Shriniwas]

Newtonian laws of motion were word of Science, until Einstein proposed theory of relativity, rendering those laws absolutely immature.

Einstein proposed quantum mechanics, which he himself died resisting in search of Theory of Everything.

We still don't know if light is wave or particle. Gravitational waves was just a prediction until it was confirmed recently. 'We may be living in a simulation' seems a valid thought when coming from Elon Musk; and a dumb one when a spiritual person says 'God controls our actions.'

Modern Science is still fragile and a work in progress guys, and top-bottom approach it follows often results in fickle hypothesis.

Ayurvedic knowledge has been developed with bottom-up approach, going from suble and fundamental to physical and material, which gives it a solid foundation. It's a different line of thought from modern day science but I believe one day science and spirituality will coincide.

This is not to undermine all the research going on with Tinnitus. I absolutely admire it. I am a Mechanical Engineer and view everything scientifically. But I don't straightaway term something absurd just because it seems absurd.

Also, apologies for posting in Treatments and Research section, it was an oversight.

 

[GregCA]

Ayurveda does have an entry in quackwatch: https://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/chopra.html

LiveScience also has an article on it: https://www.livescience.com/1367-ayurveda-good-bad-expensive.html

 

[coffee_girl]

You created an account just to post this, do you even have tinnitus?

 

[Jack Straw]

This is not going to end well....

 

[SoundB0und]

Thank you for your posts, @Shriniwas , I'll try out this mudra. The exact same mudra was once recommended to me by a friend for a separate condition before I had intrusive tinnitus.

These days I'm really careful about judging things and people's perspectives, especially when I have little to no experience with the specific thing or have not experienced what the other person has. Just because I've been proven wrong so many times.

I read your first post before any other posts were made in this thread and expected to see just this reaction from some members. People on here are mostly from the Western countries, where science is glorified too much. I too believe that one day science and spirituality will coincidence.

Until then, we can expect these kind of reactions to be common. Spirituality is the ultimate skepticism. It's not that the atheist-materialist is too skeptical, it's that he's not skeptical enough. He is not skeptical about his own worldview and will defend it somewhat blindly and fudge things, very much like a religious person does.

This is coming from a person who was a staunch atheist for 8 years. About a month ago I paid 120 USD for an hour of a Vedic (Indian) astrologer's time and was absolutely blown away, and I've been into astrology for years. If planets' position guide a person's life (or at least are a map for it), I certainly think this mudra thing is plausible.

 

[coffee_girl]

There isn't anything wrong with questioning the validity of these claims, people should never accept anything without first questioning it. Being curious and skeptical is good and healthy.

 

[SoundB0und]

Sure, but there's a difference between outright dismissal without even giving it a shot and questioning something. He was right, in my opinion, to point out how science has been (recently) revised many times. For me, personal experience is most valueable when it comes to stuff like this. And if this doesn't work, fine, I've not lost much.

For me, dismissing something based on personal biases has often cost me a lot in my life. Extreme open mindedness has been one of the most beneficial things I've adopted. I believe some things and if I'd mention them on this forum I'd get a much worse reaction than the OP. Open mindedness does not mean gullibility it's just not having preconceived notions.

 

[Shriniwas]

Absolutely right @coffee_girl, I am asking you to try this because I myself want to validate this theory with evidence. All I am asking is to react to new information with How? and Why?, Not LOL straightaway.

BTW, I do have Tinnitus.
Intensity: 1-2/10 in my left ear (from initial 4/10)
Anxiety: 6/10 (from initial 8.5/10)

I created account to share information I found useful. I respect everyone's freedom of opinion and I would never perpetuate pseudoscience on such a respected forum _/\_.

 

[Shriniwas]

Quoting Einstein again:

"The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

If we look at this tree outside whose roots search beneath the pavement for water, or a flower which sends its sweet smell to the pollinating bees, or even our own selves and the inner forces that drive us to act, we can see that we all dance to a mysterious tune, and the piper who plays this melody from an inscrutable distance—whatever name we give him—Creative Force, or God—escapes all book knowledge.

Science is never finished because the human mind only uses a small portion of its capacity, and man's exploration of his world is also limited."

 

[another sean]

Well, it doesn't seem as bad as some ENT pushing Lipo-Flavonoids.

 

[Contrast]

None of this elemental finger shit has anything to do with science.

Show evidence of it or I have no reason to take you serious.

 

[Laurie1961]

Nerves leave the brainstem side by side before webbing out into the rest of the body - it could be one branches from the other or that using one nerve affects the other.....for whatever reason.... Foot reflexology has worked for some people.

Why not appreciate this and be thankful for a suggestion that doesn't cost you anything to try and might work?

 

[slc]

Ayurveda does have an entry in quackwatch: https://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/chopra.html

LiveScience also has an article on it: https://www.livescience.com/1367-ayurveda-good-bad-expensive.html

Chopra is not a particularly good example of an Ayurvedic practitioner. I don't think he has anywhere near the training required to be an ayurvedic physician and he was mostly, in my view, into marketing himself.

For someone far more educated and experienced in the field of Ayurveda, I would turn to Dr Lad and his books. He directs the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico. I have had some success getting treatment there for Tinnitus.

He was previously the director of an Ayurvedic hospital in India. Ayurveda is recognized there as a licensed medical practice. It can be used to complement Western medicine or instead of Western medicine. the Ayurvedic practitioners I have met are open to western technologies where they deem them suitable.

Ayurveda is based upon a 3000 year long tradition of Indian medicine. Similarly acupuncture comes from classical Chinese medicine.

 

[slc]

This was in the treatment or research forum before it was moved.

I'm sorry but when I'm in the research forum and see a hand with "earth, wind, fire" on the fingers I'm going to call out the person.

Imagine going to a cancer research forum and posting a fucking picture of earth, wind, fire, space, air on fingers. Lmao

Earth wind and fire are very gross translations of the Ayurvedic doshas, or body humours, Kapha, vata, and pitta.

more precisely in western terms one can think of Kapha as body structure, vata as nervous system and pitta as metabolic processes. Even this definition is very very brief and could be much more complete.

check out the website for the Ayurvedic Institute. I think it will give you a better idea.
https://www.ayurveda.com/