Pranayama - Baba Ramdev Part 1 (Gurus of all Yoga)
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What Is Pranayama ?
It is the art of breath manipulation and energy balance. Pranayama involves breathing techniques practiced thousands of different ways.
Breath is a physical aspect or external manifestation of prana, the vital force, and thus pranayama begins with the regulation of the breath.
Breath, like electricity, is gross prana, while prana itself is subtle. By controlling the breath you can control the prana – just as you can control the other wheels by controlling or stopping the fly wheel of a diesel engine, and just as you can control the hairspring, cog wheels and the main spring of a watch by controlling the minute hand.
Control of breath is achieved through manipulation of the lungs and the breathing process.
Pranayama is the perfect control of the life-currents through control of breath, and is the process by which we understand the secret of prana and manipulate it. You can hardly make any spiritual progress without the practice of pranayama. One who has grasped this prana has grasped the very core of cosmic life and activity. Through various exercises and training in pranayama the yogi tries to realize in this little body the whole of cosmic life, and attain perfection.
Effects Of Pranayamas:
Preservation of the body’s health
Purification of the blood
Improvement in the absorption of oxygen
Strengthening the lungs and heart
Regulation of blood pressure
Regulation of the nervous system
Supporting the healing process and healing therapies
Increasing resistance to infection
Mental Effects:
Elimination of stress, nervousness and depression
Quietening of thoughts and emotions
Inner balance
Release of energy blockages
Spiritual Effects
Deepening of meditation
Awakening and purification of the Chakras (energy centres)
Expansion of consciousness
Wonders of Pranayama !
When we inhale, it is not only the air or oxygen that enters our body, but alongwith the air also enters a divine energy which keeps the body alive.
Doing pranayam does not mean only taking the air in the body (inhalation) and throwing it out (exhalation), but alongwith oxygen, we also take in our body the Vital Energy.
This Vital Energy permeates the entire universe and what we inhale and exhale is the fragment of it.
As Manu Maharaj- the law giver of the Aryans is of the opinion that pranayam clears the body and mind as the fire cleans dross elements contained in the gold when heated.
Physiology teaches us that the oxygen (Pran) we breathe fills our lungs, spreads in the entire body (internal and external including neurons, veins and arbitraries) providing it with essential food, energy, oxygen and gentle massage.
Not only that the veins collect the dross elements form the body, take them to heart and then to the lungs, which throws the useless material like carbon-dioxide and other fatal toxins out of the body through the act of exhalation.
Through pranayam and Meditation we attain a transcendental state of consciousness where the mind has no thoughts or impressions.
In that state, our neuro-enodrine system becomes limbic-hypothalamsu, pituitary, adrenal axis becomes strong and precise. As a result our stress hormones- ACTH, cortisol and prolactin and adrenaline and noradrenaline go down.
And good hormones like beta endorphines and enkaphalins, etc., go up. As a result stress-related diseases like htn, D.M, obesity and heart disease, etc., start reversing.
So are the cases of diabetes, asthma, bronchitis, leucoderma, depression, parkinson, insomnia, migraine, thyroid, arthritis, cervical spodalities, hepatitis, chronic renal failure, cancer, cirrhosis of liver, gas, constipation, acidity etc.
Spiritually speaking, with the support of respiration that the mind peers into the inner world and enables the Sadhak (Practitioner) to experience divinity.
It is the art of breath manipulation and energy balance. Pranayama involves breathing techniques practiced thousands of different ways.
Breath is a physical aspect or external manifestation of prana, the vital force, and thus pranayama begins with the regulation of the breath.
Breath, like electricity, is gross prana, while prana itself is subtle. By controlling the breath you can control the prana – just as you can control the other wheels by controlling or stopping the fly wheel of a diesel engine, and just as you can control the hairspring, cog wheels and the main spring of a watch by controlling the minute hand.
Control of breath is achieved through manipulation of the lungs and the breathing process.
Pranayama is the perfect control of the life-currents through control of breath, and is the process by which we understand the secret of prana and manipulate it. You can hardly make any spiritual progress without the practice of pranayama. One who has grasped this prana has grasped the very core of cosmic life and activity. Through various exercises and training in pranayama the yogi tries to realize in this little body the whole of cosmic life, and attain perfection.
Effects Of Pranayamas:
Preservation of the body’s health
Purification of the blood
Improvement in the absorption of oxygen
Strengthening the lungs and heart
Regulation of blood pressure
Regulation of the nervous system
Supporting the healing process and healing therapies
Increasing resistance to infection
Mental Effects:
Elimination of stress, nervousness and depression
Quietening of thoughts and emotions
Inner balance
Release of energy blockages
Spiritual Effects
Deepening of meditation
Awakening and purification of the Chakras (energy centres)
Expansion of consciousness
Wonders of Pranayama !
When we inhale, it is not only the air or oxygen that enters our body, but alongwith the air also enters a divine energy which keeps the body alive.
Doing pranayam does not mean only taking the air in the body (inhalation) and throwing it out (exhalation), but alongwith oxygen, we also take in our body the Vital Energy.
This Vital Energy permeates the entire universe and what we inhale and exhale is the fragment of it.
As Manu Maharaj- the law giver of the Aryans is of the opinion that pranayam clears the body and mind as the fire cleans dross elements contained in the gold when heated.
Physiology teaches us that the oxygen (Pran) we breathe fills our lungs, spreads in the entire body (internal and external including neurons, veins and arbitraries) providing it with essential food, energy, oxygen and gentle massage.
Not only that the veins collect the dross elements form the body, take them to heart and then to the lungs, which throws the useless material like carbon-dioxide and other fatal toxins out of the body through the act of exhalation.
Through pranayam and Meditation we attain a transcendental state of consciousness where the mind has no thoughts or impressions.
In that state, our neuro-enodrine system becomes limbic-hypothalamsu, pituitary, adrenal axis becomes strong and precise. As a result our stress hormones- ACTH, cortisol and prolactin and adrenaline and noradrenaline go down.
And good hormones like beta endorphines and enkaphalins, etc., go up. As a result stress-related diseases like htn, D.M, obesity and heart disease, etc., start reversing.
So are the cases of diabetes, asthma, bronchitis, leucoderma, depression, parkinson, insomnia, migraine, thyroid, arthritis, cervical spodalities, hepatitis, chronic renal failure, cancer, cirrhosis of liver, gas, constipation, acidity etc.
Spiritually speaking, with the support of respiration that the mind peers into the inner world and enables the Sadhak (Practitioner) to experience divinity.