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We
all know that in our bodies is flowing life energy. When it stops, we die. Pranayama and Swarodaya are ancient practices of
controlling the vital energy (prana) through breathing, and Chinese
Tai-Ji-chuan is art of removing air from the body and obtaining a sufficient
amount of fresh air.
Pranayama
(from prana-energy and pit-direct), or control over breathing is a breathing
practice which significantly increase the amount of life energy in our body.
There
are several types of breathing
practices:
balancing,
energizing, heating, cooling and soothing.
All
techniques of Pranayama have a healing effect on many diseases by affecting
brain hemispheres.
Proper breathing
reduces nervous tension, calms the mind, cleanses the entire body, removes
energy blockages along the path of the
nerve flows, treats depression and mental illness. It affects all organs in our
body through massage of inhalation and exhalation, by nourishing them with
blood. The aim of pranayama is to
balance and enhance the vital energy in our body.
Pranayama has various breathing techniques -
Nadi
Shodhana, Bhramari, Ujjayi, Kapalabhati and many others. In all cases they
provide extra oxygen, improve lungs functioning and affect brain and emotions.
Through Pranic breathing
person gets access to a huge flow of energy that serves him as a fuel. A
breathing cycle consists of an inhalation
and an exhalation. Lungs are located
in the chest - when breathing, they expand.
Most
people do not know how to fill the entire volume of their lungs, and thus fail
to remove carbon dioxide and toxins from the blood.
The
easiest way this can be achieved is by "abdominal"
breathing. During inhaling air penetrates into the bronchi and fills the
lungs, including their lower part. Thus, the lung press the diaphragm and it
descends down. At this point the chest is filled with air and belly swells.
During
exhalation, belly retracts, the diaphragm rises and reaches the lungs. This
enables exhaled air to leave the bottom of the lungs. Inhalation and exhalation
are performed through the nose. At the beginning of the breath it is with a
low-amplitude, but you should increasingly extend the duration of the cycles
inhalation-exhalation.
Everyone,
who experiences the regular and rhythmic breathing, will be able to absorb more
energy, regularly and easily to clear their lungs.
Pranic breathing
energizes you, so that your aura increases by one hundred percent, but when
healers use pranic breathing, the result is much more effective. In proper breathing,
oxygen is spread throughout our whole body. We can say that people, who don’t
know how to breathe, do not nourish cells with enough oxygen, they receive
tissue hypoxia and therefore, they faster aging and quickly die.
Breathing
can be regulated to achieve certain results. Accepted by breathing, life energy
can be directed and might strength entire body. In ancient Sanskrit books often
is mentioned that "if you can control your breathing, it is easy to become
master of your fate. "
All
ancient sages and philosophers have used controlled breathing, to go faster in
a meditative state, and knew that breathing is associated very strongly with
our physical and spiritual state. Through breathing techniques they have
controlled the physiology of the body.
In
all Tibetan monasteries, monks still do daily breathing exercises, protecting
themselves from diseases and infections.
Nowadays
we are compelled to breathe unclean air, mixed with smoke, car exhaust,
chemical waste and many other toxins. All this goes into our lungs, and hence –
in our entire organism. In places where air is not only clean, but also loaded
with more negative electrical charges (anions) we can breathe easier and
fatigue disappears easily.
The
bad respiratory habits - accelerated, noisy and shallow breathing, breathing through
the mouth, damage the functions of lungs and heart, changing blood circulation.
There
are thousands of people, whose lower parts of the lungs have lack of oxygen for
many years, and thousands of others who fail to dispose of carbon dioxide. Daily
exercises and training of lungs is necessary for our good health. Their regular
contraction and relaxation helps maximize energy absorption.
Accoring
to ancient Chinese, if inhalation is longer than exhalation, this means that
the person is healthy, gained more power. As we train our breathing, we
normalize lung ventilation and change the concentration of carbon dioxide in
the lungs and blood.
There are many different types and techniques of
breathing - abdominal diaphragm, coloured, circular,
transforming, intermediate, external, internal, breathing through lungs, through pores of the skin, through bones,
through the chakras and many others.
All
of this contributes we to have such a complete change of oxygen and carbon
dioxide, and it cannot be done in the usual way of breathing.
Whatever
type of breathing you choose, there are a few mandatory rules:
1.
Before starting any
breathing technique, several times exhale strongly, as during deep exhalation,
except carbon dioxide, we also release the consumed energy.
2.
Inhale and exhale through
the nose.
3.
When you breathe only
through your mouth, there is a risk of atrоphy of the mucous
membrane of the nose, and it could easily be blocked. When young children
breathe through the mouth, thyroid gland can become underdeveloped, tonsils to
increase and their mental maturity to be delayed.
