By: Gabriel Foster
Yoga has been about for bags of years, and admitting its origins are still unclear, it appears to accept originated in Ancient India or Ancient Egypt. Yoga involves a alternation of poses and stretches aural a holistic mindset and absorption that yields spiritual, physical, mental, affecting and bloom benefits. The art and science of yoga, is about like a brainwork itself, the added you convenance it, the added you feel it?s candid and transforming effects. It rewards and develops both the close an d alien you like the adorning of a acceptable parent.
The Bloom Allowances of Yoga
The bloom allowances attributed to the convenance of yoga has been able-bodied documented. For example, yoga improves the allowed arrangement and circulation, controls anxiety, asthma, assorted sclerosis, headaches, claret pressure, weight gain, as able-bodied as carpal adit syndrome. It reduces depression, arthritis pain, affection disease, stress, abiding fatigue, and aback affliction to name a few. The aloft mentioned bloom allowances are just a sma ll bulk of miracles offered to you from yoga. It?s alleviative and healing allowances far extends to a abundant greater ocean of ailments and diseases.
The Transforming Allowances of Yoga
Other than all the bloom allowances of yoga, you will acquaintance abundance that transforms you completely. Such is the absolute affiance of yoga. It will acquiesce you to feel better, anticipate acutely and sensibly, accent your body, access your strength, adaptability and balance. Yoga can aswell advance you into airy accomplishment if accomplished forth that path.
As you abide to convenance yoga, you?ll boring become acquainted of the absoluteness of yourself, acquaintance beneath abhorrence appear the world, a crumbling abhorrence of activity and people. A faculty that admitting all the angry and negativity that occurs in the world, the cosmos is ordered and good. All of the allowances in this administration is too abundant to acknowledgment in this abbreviate article.
Universal Principles of Yoga Allotment 4
By: Paul Jerard
Karma Yoga: Is accord through plan and decidedly through the act of affectionate service. Along with Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Raja Yoga; Karma Yoga is generally advised to be one of the four a lot of avant-garde forms of Yoga. To yield affectionate action, after expectations, or gluttonous a reward, is one of the keys to Karma Yoga and aswell enlightenment.
When I anticipate of Karma Yogis, the aboriginal that would appear to apperception is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aswell accepted as Mahatma Gandhi. His archetypal of peaceful resista nce for civilian rights has been auspiciously affected since, but a lot of importantly, his accomplishments were for the accomplished moral reasons. He did not seek fame, but acclaim did appear to him. His affectionate acts did amount him his bloom and, unfortunately, his own life. India and the apple will consistently absence his attenuate wisdom.
You do not accept to be enlightened, or accord up your life, to chase the aisle of Karma Yoga, but if you can let go of adapter to the aftereffect of your action; you are on the path. This one assignment is a lot of difficult and requires acts of admiring affection to friends, strangers, and those who do not ambition you well.
Karma Yoga aswell requires amenity and forgiveness. Why should you accord so abundant of yourself? Surprisingly, the Karma Yogi does accept a priceless reward, but a lot of humans do not appear to this realization. By giving, forgiving, assuming kindness, getting mindful, and absolution go of attachment, the Karma Yogi adventures freedom. This is abandon from hate, guilt, fear, and greed.
Think of ?The Middle Way? as accomplished by Siddhartha Gautama, aswell accepted as ?The Buddha.? He accomplished abstention of extremes; whether it is amusement or pain. If you stop hating, you are absolution your own affliction from aural the base of your soul. So, you are forgiving, but you are aswell absolution the accountability of hate.
Remember aswell that if you accord in to hate, greed, fear, and guilt; the after-effects of your accomplishments will eventually be realized. Therefore, the aisle of Karma Yoga should be a allotment of anniversary of o ur lives. Accord to those in charge and do not apprehend a reward. Your accolade is that you are in a position to give.
The accomplished anatomy of Karma Yoga is affectionate account to God. It does not amount what name you accept alarm God, the assumption is the same. Affectionate account is demography the activity to advice others. If you can apprentice to adulation others, you will apprentice to adulation yourself, and authorize an even added adulation for God.
Karma Yoga: Is accord through plan and decidedly through the act of affectionate service. Along with Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Raja Yoga; Karma Yoga is generally advised to be one of the four a lot of avant-garde forms of Yoga. To yield affectionate action, after expectations, or gluttonous a reward, is one of the keys to Karma Yoga and aswell enlightenment.
When I anticipate of Karma Yogis, the aboriginal that would appear to apperception is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aswell accepted as Mahatma Gandhi. His archetypal of peaceful resista nce for civilian rights has been auspiciously affected since, but a lot of importantly, his accomplishments were for the accomplished moral reasons. He did not seek fame, but acclaim did appear to him. His affectionate acts did amount him his bloom and, unfortunately, his own life. India and the apple will consistently absence his attenuate wisdom.
You do not accept to be enlightened, or accord up your life, to chase the aisle of Karma Yoga, but if you can let go of adapter to the aftereffect of your action; you are on the path. This one assignment is a lot of difficult and requires acts of admiring affection to friends, strangers, and those who do not ambition you well.
Karma Yoga aswell requires amenity and forgiveness. Why should you accord so abundant of yourself? Surprisingly, the Karma Yogi does accept a priceless reward, but a lot of humans do not appear to this realization. By giving, forgiving, assuming kindness, getting mindful, and absolution go of attachment, the Karma Yogi adventures freedom. This is abandon from hate, guilt, fear, and greed.
Think of ?The Middle Way? as accomplished by Siddhartha Gautama, aswell accepted as ?The Buddha.? He accomplished abstention of extremes; whether it is amusement or pain. If you stop hating, you are absolution your own affliction from aural the base of your soul. So, you are forgiving, but you are aswell absolution the accountability of hate.
Remember aswell that if you accord in to hate, greed, fear, and guilt; the after-effects of your accomplishments will eventually be realized. Therefore, the aisle of Karma Yoga should be a allotment of anniversary of o ur lives. Accord to those in charge and do not apprehend a reward. Your accolade is that you are in a position to give.
The accomplished anatomy of Karma Yoga is affectionate account to God. It does not amount what name you accept alarm God, the assumption is the same. Affectionate account is demography the activity to advice others. If you can apprentice to adulation others, you will apprentice to adulation yourself, and authorize an even added adulation for God.
Universal Principles of Yoga Part 5
By: Paul Jerard
Kundalini Yoga: Is accord through activation analytic assumption force, which indicates the abyss of this Yoga style. Kundalini Yoga is sometimes referred to as the ?Mother of all Yogas.? On the apparent Kundalini Yoga ability resemble Hatha Yoga, but the accent on the attenuate body, chakras, mantras, meditation, and Pranayama is presented in a abnormally able way.
Kundalini Yoga was buried in clandestineness until Yogi Bhajan gave a address in Los Angeles during January of 1969. Until that time, a lot of informat ion about Kundalini Yoga had been exchanged verbally from abecedary to student. So, this was the alpha of Kundalini Yoga teaching ?going public.?
The activation of Kundalini activity starts with absorption on abeyant activity at the abject of the back aural the aboriginal above Chakra; aswell accepted as the Muladhara Chakra. Through asanas, accommodating Pranayama, Japa (repeating mantras), and meditation, the Kundalini activity is beatific up the back to the Sahasrara Chakra at the acme of the head.
Samadhi, al so accepted as automatic enlightenment, is one of the a lot of approved afterwards after-effects of Kundalini Yoga practice. Therefore, Kundalini attracts a abundant altered blazon of apprentice and Yoga abecedary from what is a lot of frequently begin in a Hatha Yoga class. This is neither right, nor wrong, but a lot of Hatha Yoga acceptance are not usually advancing a airy transformation process.
As a ancillary note: Kundalini has taken a few exact assaults, from religious fundamentalists, for getting a bit mystical and a little harder to understand. Based aloft my own experience, Kundalini Yoga sessions will abolition abrogating activity from your apperception and body. Only absolute after-effects can be acquired in the abstraction of Kundalini Yoga, beneath the administration of a competent Kundalini Yoga teacher.
Mantra Yoga: Is accord through sound. Mantra Yoga is aswell referred to as Japa Yoga and the repeating of accurate Mantras will could cause acoustic abandonment (Pratyahara). This is, in fact, easier for a lot of humans to accomplish than brainwork and it allows th e Mantra Yoga practitioner to abolish abrogating activity from the body, mind, and spirit.
In Sanskrit Mantra actually agency ?tool for thinking? or ?tool for thought.? The purpose of Mantra Yoga is to accomplish conservancy through accord with the absolute consciousness, which you abounding humans accredit to as God, Brahman, Yahweh, Jehovah, or Allah. The repeating of Mantras, which is aswell accepted as Japa, is in actuality prayer. So, Mantra Yoga may not attending like abundant ?from the alfresco searching in,? but it is a acutely spi ritual, powerful, and advantageous Yoga practice, in its own right.
Kundalini Yoga: Is accord through activation analytic assumption force, which indicates the abyss of this Yoga style. Kundalini Yoga is sometimes referred to as the ?Mother of all Yogas.? On the apparent Kundalini Yoga ability resemble Hatha Yoga, but the accent on the attenuate body, chakras, mantras, meditation, and Pranayama is presented in a abnormally able way.
Kundalini Yoga was buried in clandestineness until Yogi Bhajan gave a address in Los Angeles during January of 1969. Until that time, a lot of informat ion about Kundalini Yoga had been exchanged verbally from abecedary to student. So, this was the alpha of Kundalini Yoga teaching ?going public.?
The activation of Kundalini activity starts with absorption on abeyant activity at the abject of the back aural the aboriginal above Chakra; aswell accepted as the Muladhara Chakra. Through asanas, accommodating Pranayama, Japa (repeating mantras), and meditation, the Kundalini activity is beatific up the back to the Sahasrara Chakra at the acme of the head.
Samadhi, al so accepted as automatic enlightenment, is one of the a lot of approved afterwards after-effects of Kundalini Yoga practice. Therefore, Kundalini attracts a abundant altered blazon of apprentice and Yoga abecedary from what is a lot of frequently begin in a Hatha Yoga class. This is neither right, nor wrong, but a lot of Hatha Yoga acceptance are not usually advancing a airy transformation process.
As a ancillary note: Kundalini has taken a few exact assaults, from religious fundamentalists, for getting a bit mystical and a little harder to understand. Based aloft my own experience, Kundalini Yoga sessions will abolition abrogating activity from your apperception and body. Only absolute after-effects can be acquired in the abstraction of Kundalini Yoga, beneath the administration of a competent Kundalini Yoga teacher.
Mantra Yoga: Is accord through sound. Mantra Yoga is aswell referred to as Japa Yoga and the repeating of accurate Mantras will could cause acoustic abandonment (Pratyahara). This is, in fact, easier for a lot of humans to accomplish than brainwork and it allows th e Mantra Yoga practitioner to abolish abrogating activity from the body, mind, and spirit.
In Sanskrit Mantra actually agency ?tool for thinking? or ?tool for thought.? The purpose of Mantra Yoga is to accomplish conservancy through accord with the absolute consciousness, which you abounding humans accredit to as God, Brahman, Yahweh, Jehovah, or Allah. The repeating of Mantras, which is aswell accepted as Japa, is in actuality prayer. So, Mantra Yoga may not attending like abundant ?from the alfresco searching in,? but it is a acutely spi ritual, powerful, and advantageous Yoga practice, in its own right.
Universal Principles of Yoga Part 6
By: Paul Jerard
In all religions, it is believed singing or chanting prayers, hymns, or Japa, will accompany about salvation. Within the Vedas, the verses are aswell alleged mantras. To go a bit further, every adoration practices a anatomy of Mantra or Japa. If you accept been to a church, temple, shrine, ashram, or mosque, you will apprehend prayers, chanting, and singing.
So, what happened to the abstraction that Yoga is not a airy practice? Well, it is, but some accepted concrete forms do not abode airy health. Pilates i s a accepted ?Yoga off shoot? that does not abode airy health. Some of the abreast Hatha Yoga styles do not accommodate abundant airy benefit. I advise Chair Yoga classes for concrete and brainy allowances only. However, as you can see, by what you accept ahead read, abounding of the capital Indian Yoga styles do abode mental, physical, and airy health.
The capital point is that these forms of Yoga are not aggressive to any adoration at all. Yoga can be accomplished by anyone of any religion, withou t the anguish of a conflict. Now, if you are an atheist, you may adopt to convenance a anatomy of Yoga that will not enhance your airy health. It is every Yoga student?s advantage to accept a appearance of Yoga or a Guru that fits his or her needs. However, if you anytime acquisition a Guru who does not embrace airy health, what does that acquaint you?
Let?s attending at a few added credibility of absorption begin in Mantra Yoga. The Mantra Yogi has three methods of practice. They are Balkhari, Upanshu, and Manasik.
Th e Balkari adjustment is chanting in a articulation that can calmly be heard. The actual account is to abjure into brainwork easily. It is abundant easier to meditate if you can abolish alfresco thoughts, problems, and concerns. The Upanshu anatomy of chanting is performed in a low voice, agnate to a whisper. The Manasik anatomy of chanting is one of my claimed favorites and can be performed mentally. Some accede this to be difficult, but it does advance to college states of consciousness. Since this is such a ?low key? anatomy of Japa, you can calmly fit it into your active day. If you adjure in blackout during the day, you accept already accomplished in this way.
Some Mantra Yogis use a Rosary or ?Mala.? Most of the Malas that I accept apparent accept 109 beads. The 109th account bean is accepted as a Sumeru or Guru. This is area Japa begins and ends. Aswell aces of note, is that Roman Catholics use a Rosary for prayers and meditation. This is aswell a acutely airy practice. The Mala or Rosary has been a accessible apparatus for accessory of airy bloom behindhand of which ability you are from or which adoration you practice.
In all religions, it is believed singing or chanting prayers, hymns, or Japa, will accompany about salvation. Within the Vedas, the verses are aswell alleged mantras. To go a bit further, every adoration practices a anatomy of Mantra or Japa. If you accept been to a church, temple, shrine, ashram, or mosque, you will apprehend prayers, chanting, and singing.
So, what happened to the abstraction that Yoga is not a airy practice? Well, it is, but some accepted concrete forms do not abode airy health. Pilates i s a accepted ?Yoga off shoot? that does not abode airy health. Some of the abreast Hatha Yoga styles do not accommodate abundant airy benefit. I advise Chair Yoga classes for concrete and brainy allowances only. However, as you can see, by what you accept ahead read, abounding of the capital Indian Yoga styles do abode mental, physical, and airy health.
The capital point is that these forms of Yoga are not aggressive to any adoration at all. Yoga can be accomplished by anyone of any religion, withou t the anguish of a conflict. Now, if you are an atheist, you may adopt to convenance a anatomy of Yoga that will not enhance your airy health. It is every Yoga student?s advantage to accept a appearance of Yoga or a Guru that fits his or her needs. However, if you anytime acquisition a Guru who does not embrace airy health, what does that acquaint you?
Let?s attending at a few added credibility of absorption begin in Mantra Yoga. The Mantra Yogi has three methods of practice. They are Balkhari, Upanshu, and Manasik.
Th e Balkari adjustment is chanting in a articulation that can calmly be heard. The actual account is to abjure into brainwork easily. It is abundant easier to meditate if you can abolish alfresco thoughts, problems, and concerns. The Upanshu anatomy of chanting is performed in a low voice, agnate to a whisper. The Manasik anatomy of chanting is one of my claimed favorites and can be performed mentally. Some accede this to be difficult, but it does advance to college states of consciousness. Since this is such a ?low key? anatomy of Japa, you can calmly fit it into your active day. If you adjure in blackout during the day, you accept already accomplished in this way.
Some Mantra Yogis use a Rosary or ?Mala.? Most of the Malas that I accept apparent accept 109 beads. The 109th account bean is accepted as a Sumeru or Guru. This is area Japa begins and ends. Aswell aces of note, is that Roman Catholics use a Rosary for prayers and meditation. This is aswell a acutely airy practice. The Mala or Rosary has been a accessible apparatus for accessory of airy bloom behindhand of which ability you are from or which adoration you practice.
Yoga Brings Relief For Irritable Bowel Syndrome Sufferers
By: Kim Beardsmore
If you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and feel as though you have need something other than the traditional medical interventions, you may be relieved to know that IBS can be improved from physical and lifestyle changes, in particular?the addition of exercise.
Many people have found that adding more exercise to their daily routine help the muscles in their body to relax and that assist suffers of IBS. One of the physical activities that have been considered to be very effective in red ucing muscle tension, is yoga.
Yoga is used to connect the mind and body. It is mostly known as a movement meditation. Through the use of breath, as well as certain held poses, Yoga can help to improve several conditions in your body and in your health. In relation to all of the methods yoga is an alternative method that can be used as part of a complete cure for IBS.
There are several physical presentations of IBS and yoga has been for many people, effective in relieving many physical elemen ts that are related to IBS. Not only can yoga help many people keep IBS symptoms under control, yoga may also provide relief to many others with IBS symptoms. The disciplines of stretching, strength, balance, flexibility and workouts all assist sufferers of IBS.
When you first start in yoga, you will find that initially yoga will strengthen your heart. While this doesn?t directly relate to IBS, it will help you in maintaining balance in your body. Eventually, as you continue with yoga you will fin d it will positively affect the functioning of the digestive system. Eventually, as you stick with a regular discipline in yoga many people find an improvement with blood pressure and respiration.
One of the major benefits that yoga can help in relation to IBS, is helping to stabilize the digestive system. It will do this through stretching and relaxing the muscles that are part of the digestive system. The more you are able to do yoga, the more you will have a combination of relief and balance in your body. Through the different movements, your digestive system will begin to relax more.
Further, as yoga will also help you concentrate on your breathing, this too will help the nerves to your gut to relax. Eventually, this may also relieve stress to your bowel.
Yoga is one of several physical methods that you can use to minimize the problems with IBS. By understanding how yoga works and what it does for your body, you can help to relieve several problems that are related to your IBS. This, along with considering dietary changes can help to control and improve your IBS conditions.
If you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and feel as though you have need something other than the traditional medical interventions, you may be relieved to know that IBS can be improved from physical and lifestyle changes, in particular?the addition of exercise.
Many people have found that adding more exercise to their daily routine help the muscles in their body to relax and that assist suffers of IBS. One of the physical activities that have been considered to be very effective in red ucing muscle tension, is yoga.
Yoga is used to connect the mind and body. It is mostly known as a movement meditation. Through the use of breath, as well as certain held poses, Yoga can help to improve several conditions in your body and in your health. In relation to all of the methods yoga is an alternative method that can be used as part of a complete cure for IBS.
There are several physical presentations of IBS and yoga has been for many people, effective in relieving many physical elemen ts that are related to IBS. Not only can yoga help many people keep IBS symptoms under control, yoga may also provide relief to many others with IBS symptoms. The disciplines of stretching, strength, balance, flexibility and workouts all assist sufferers of IBS.
When you first start in yoga, you will find that initially yoga will strengthen your heart. While this doesn?t directly relate to IBS, it will help you in maintaining balance in your body. Eventually, as you continue with yoga you will fin d it will positively affect the functioning of the digestive system. Eventually, as you stick with a regular discipline in yoga many people find an improvement with blood pressure and respiration.
One of the major benefits that yoga can help in relation to IBS, is helping to stabilize the digestive system. It will do this through stretching and relaxing the muscles that are part of the digestive system. The more you are able to do yoga, the more you will have a combination of relief and balance in your body. Through the different movements, your digestive system will begin to relax more.
Further, as yoga will also help you concentrate on your breathing, this too will help the nerves to your gut to relax. Eventually, this may also relieve stress to your bowel.
Yoga is one of several physical methods that you can use to minimize the problems with IBS. By understanding how yoga works and what it does for your body, you can help to relieve several problems that are related to your IBS. This, along with considering dietary changes can help to control and improve your IBS conditions.
Yoga Helps Asthma
By: Michael Russell
The science of Yoga specialises in breath control. It offers vital information regarding respiration and techniques which can relieve health problems including asthma.
In yogic terminology the physical body is called the Annamaya Kosha or the "food sheath". It is constructed out of the food we eat. The vital body or etheric body is called the Pranamaya Kosha and is built out of all the energies we have assimilated from food but more specifically via our breathing. Breathing is looked upon as t he primary nourishment for continuance of life, over and above the need for food and water.
The vital body or etheric body holds the pattern for the natural flow of prana or energy within the individual and acts as our shield, protecting us from outside influences through a positive radiation of abundant energy. Any disturbance in these energies brings about a reaction in a physical disturbance or health problem. Correction of breathing and respiratory difficulties is therefore of paramount importa nce not only for the immediate relief of the sufferer, but for assurance of his future well being.
The yogic concept is that our health is determined by our psychological states and that irregularities in health can therefore be assisted by adjustments made in our thinking and our emotional life. It is by maintaining a balanced relationship between our thoughts and our emotions, that we can best preserve our good health. In addition, we apply physical corrective measures. In the case of asthma, th is would include nutritional considerations, herbal medicines, physiotherapy, inhalation of essential oils, physical exercises, correction of body posture, respiratory exercises and training in breath control.
The average person breathes approximately 23-25,000 breaths per day. Each breath has 3 aspects inhalation, retention and exhalation. These three processes determine the regularity of supply and flow of life energy or prana within the body as well as the balance of oxygen and carbon di-oxide w ithin the blood and cells. The three processes - inhalation, retention and exhalation should be balanced as they are by the action of the sympathetic nervous system in the nature of a well balanced individual. The three processes symbolize 1) the receptive process of drawing in vital nourishment 2) the power to absorb and utilise energy 3) the expression of the creative life energies.
The asthmatic has the three processes out of balance in himself. He usually draws in and is receptive but tends to suffer from an inability to exhale and express his energies and talents, his feeling or his thoughts. In some way he is choked by his own energy intake. Fear intensifies the blockage, intensifies his discomfort and the disease itself. This is of course a generalization and you will agree that there are exceptions. However this and any other imbalance in the psychological attitude of the sufferer must be adjusted before normal, natural, rhythmic respiration can occur. We all must become attuned to har monise with the law and rhythm which is behind the power of Nature giving us life through our breath. And our breathing is a unique process which is partly orchestrated by Nature itself and partly by our own consciousness.
The process of respiration is therefore one which has a subconscious or unconscious component and one which is controlled by conscious awareness. In order to bring the two into harmony or in the case of asthma, restore the relationship, we have to consider the subconscious fears and inhibiting factors as we apply our therapy to the mechanisms of breathing. In an adult this can be addressed reasonably directly through consultation with a psychologist, counsellor or therapist. With infants and children, the task must be largely undertaken by the parents and therapists on the child's behalf by making opportunity for the inner thoughts and feelings of the child to be expressed and by contributing positive suggestions to help them re-programme their reactions to negative situations. We have to help them to breath properly in exercises directed through our suggestion.
Nature has given us 2 nostrils instead of one big hole - not for aesthetic reasons, (because it looks better) but to enable us to tune in or plug in to the electro-magnetic energies which sustain life and which can be seen to correspond with what we call electricity. The energy which is drawn through the right nostril corresponds to the positive and the left nostril breath to the negative energies which in Indian terms are known as 'pingala and ida' and in Chinese philosophy as 'yang and yin'.
You can verify the existence of these energies by a simple demonstration. Sitting in a relaxed manner and without actually touching the hands - place them an inch apart palms facing each other, at about waist height. Pay attention to the feeling between the hands. Then with an easy rhythmic series of movements draw the hands a little way apart, say 30 cm and back again to their original position. Repeating this in a light, bellows-like fashion, many times with elbows relaxed and no tension in the hands. After a short while you will begin to feel either a certain warmth, tingling sensation or magnetic pull between your hands, depending upon the type of energy flowing through you. Although invisible, your energy is very real.
Children with no preconceived ideas will register these sensations, so please allow no scepticism to affect your sensitivity. Try to register the sensations impartially. You will find th at the feelings will differ at different times and under different circumstances. If you think that it may be displaced air that creates the sensation between the hands - please experiment further and you will find that it is the back of the hands which register the air displacement through your movement.
Our body temperature and functions are balanced by these energies and when they are out of balance, we have manifestation of disease of some kind. Throughout the day there is a natural fluctuation with the air flowing first through one nostril, then the other with the right side heating and the left side cooling. Together they also maintain Nature's air conditioning system. The process occurs through the swelling of the delicate turbinal membranes in the nostrils, which direct the air through one side or the other. There is an interval of time where the change-over occurs and both nostrils are equally open. This fact can be easily checked by using a finger to close one nostril at a time.
Remember that for centuries, dedicated yogis explored all the avenues of nature by simple methods of personal observation and personal experience. They had no instrument other then that of their own body and mind. They spent time observing, waiting, watching to discover these laws behind human breath. They believed that because the human being can control his life-breath he therefore must have access to the source of Life for himself.
Asthma is a condition where the Left side has been overactive, sometimes for years and the alternating rhythm has not functioned as it should. This rhythm may have been interfered with by the thoughts, emotions and attitudes of the individual and the irregularity exacerbated by physical conditions. Too much mucous or catarrh and nasal congestion as well as allergies as a result of pollution of various kinds makes modern conditions and healing asthma more difficult as all these factors are present to a greater or lesser degree, in conjunction with the discussed psych ological conditions which reflect some imbalance. In any case, no matter the causative factors, the natural polarity of positive and negative energies will not be adjusted again until the Right nostril becomes more active.
There are certain measures which can help and are used prior to breathing exercises. One is to cleanse the nostrils with cold water sniffing or with some it may be best to use warm salted water. The cold water will reduce any inflammation of the tissues in the nose. Some people prefer to splash the nose with cold water. Sneezing afterwards is considered a normal reaction. This practice called Neti is done by yogis using a special Neti pot for the purpose.
Steam inhalations and also direct inhalation of essential oils is beneficial with peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil and pine oil being popular. It is largely a matter of personal selection to find which is most beneficial. Other delightful perfumes are found in cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, lemon and lime. Development of sensitivity of olfaction directly aids respiration as the regio respiratoria and the regio olfactoria are closely associated in the brain itself.
There are also other subtle therapies proving helpful in the treatment of asthma but therapy for this condition necessarily involves more direct physical treatment upon the spine, body posture, muscular exercises and controls including certain techniques known in Yoga as 'bandhas'. There must be immediate relief given in cases of critical and acute symptom s of asthma attack but long term reconditioning of the whole person is important also, along with the need to practise the art of relaxation and muscular exercises to reduce strain on the nervous system.
By whatever therapeutic means you may undertake, seek also to correct any displacement of the spine which can affect the nose, the thyroid, the diaphragm, the solar plexus and the organs of digestion. Any spinal problem in these areas can aggravate asthma.
The yogi looks upon the breath as the means of connection of spirit to body and the spiritual connection of the individual to the universal. Therefore, respiration is considered not only as a mechanical means of taking oxygen in to the body and exhaling wastes, but is a function which assists both integration of the personality and provides our personal lifeline to our Life Source.
Help the asthmatic patient to reduce his inner tensions and balance his nature, to melt his frustration and his fears and recover his smooth and comforting link with his lifeline through establishment of his free and natural breathing rhythm.
The science of Yoga specialises in breath control. It offers vital information regarding respiration and techniques which can relieve health problems including asthma.
In yogic terminology the physical body is called the Annamaya Kosha or the "food sheath". It is constructed out of the food we eat. The vital body or etheric body is called the Pranamaya Kosha and is built out of all the energies we have assimilated from food but more specifically via our breathing. Breathing is looked upon as t he primary nourishment for continuance of life, over and above the need for food and water.
The vital body or etheric body holds the pattern for the natural flow of prana or energy within the individual and acts as our shield, protecting us from outside influences through a positive radiation of abundant energy. Any disturbance in these energies brings about a reaction in a physical disturbance or health problem. Correction of breathing and respiratory difficulties is therefore of paramount importa nce not only for the immediate relief of the sufferer, but for assurance of his future well being.
The yogic concept is that our health is determined by our psychological states and that irregularities in health can therefore be assisted by adjustments made in our thinking and our emotional life. It is by maintaining a balanced relationship between our thoughts and our emotions, that we can best preserve our good health. In addition, we apply physical corrective measures. In the case of asthma, th is would include nutritional considerations, herbal medicines, physiotherapy, inhalation of essential oils, physical exercises, correction of body posture, respiratory exercises and training in breath control.
The average person breathes approximately 23-25,000 breaths per day. Each breath has 3 aspects inhalation, retention and exhalation. These three processes determine the regularity of supply and flow of life energy or prana within the body as well as the balance of oxygen and carbon di-oxide w ithin the blood and cells. The three processes - inhalation, retention and exhalation should be balanced as they are by the action of the sympathetic nervous system in the nature of a well balanced individual. The three processes symbolize 1) the receptive process of drawing in vital nourishment 2) the power to absorb and utilise energy 3) the expression of the creative life energies.
The asthmatic has the three processes out of balance in himself. He usually draws in and is receptive but tends to suffer from an inability to exhale and express his energies and talents, his feeling or his thoughts. In some way he is choked by his own energy intake. Fear intensifies the blockage, intensifies his discomfort and the disease itself. This is of course a generalization and you will agree that there are exceptions. However this and any other imbalance in the psychological attitude of the sufferer must be adjusted before normal, natural, rhythmic respiration can occur. We all must become attuned to har monise with the law and rhythm which is behind the power of Nature giving us life through our breath. And our breathing is a unique process which is partly orchestrated by Nature itself and partly by our own consciousness.
The process of respiration is therefore one which has a subconscious or unconscious component and one which is controlled by conscious awareness. In order to bring the two into harmony or in the case of asthma, restore the relationship, we have to consider the subconscious fears and inhibiting factors as we apply our therapy to the mechanisms of breathing. In an adult this can be addressed reasonably directly through consultation with a psychologist, counsellor or therapist. With infants and children, the task must be largely undertaken by the parents and therapists on the child's behalf by making opportunity for the inner thoughts and feelings of the child to be expressed and by contributing positive suggestions to help them re-programme their reactions to negative situations. We have to help them to breath properly in exercises directed through our suggestion.
Nature has given us 2 nostrils instead of one big hole - not for aesthetic reasons, (because it looks better) but to enable us to tune in or plug in to the electro-magnetic energies which sustain life and which can be seen to correspond with what we call electricity. The energy which is drawn through the right nostril corresponds to the positive and the left nostril breath to the negative energies which in Indian terms are known as 'pingala and ida' and in Chinese philosophy as 'yang and yin'.
You can verify the existence of these energies by a simple demonstration. Sitting in a relaxed manner and without actually touching the hands - place them an inch apart palms facing each other, at about waist height. Pay attention to the feeling between the hands. Then with an easy rhythmic series of movements draw the hands a little way apart, say 30 cm and back again to their original position. Repeating this in a light, bellows-like fashion, many times with elbows relaxed and no tension in the hands. After a short while you will begin to feel either a certain warmth, tingling sensation or magnetic pull between your hands, depending upon the type of energy flowing through you. Although invisible, your energy is very real.
Children with no preconceived ideas will register these sensations, so please allow no scepticism to affect your sensitivity. Try to register the sensations impartially. You will find th at the feelings will differ at different times and under different circumstances. If you think that it may be displaced air that creates the sensation between the hands - please experiment further and you will find that it is the back of the hands which register the air displacement through your movement.
Our body temperature and functions are balanced by these energies and when they are out of balance, we have manifestation of disease of some kind. Throughout the day there is a natural fluctuation with the air flowing first through one nostril, then the other with the right side heating and the left side cooling. Together they also maintain Nature's air conditioning system. The process occurs through the swelling of the delicate turbinal membranes in the nostrils, which direct the air through one side or the other. There is an interval of time where the change-over occurs and both nostrils are equally open. This fact can be easily checked by using a finger to close one nostril at a time.
Remember that for centuries, dedicated yogis explored all the avenues of nature by simple methods of personal observation and personal experience. They had no instrument other then that of their own body and mind. They spent time observing, waiting, watching to discover these laws behind human breath. They believed that because the human being can control his life-breath he therefore must have access to the source of Life for himself.
Asthma is a condition where the Left side has been overactive, sometimes for years and the alternating rhythm has not functioned as it should. This rhythm may have been interfered with by the thoughts, emotions and attitudes of the individual and the irregularity exacerbated by physical conditions. Too much mucous or catarrh and nasal congestion as well as allergies as a result of pollution of various kinds makes modern conditions and healing asthma more difficult as all these factors are present to a greater or lesser degree, in conjunction with the discussed psych ological conditions which reflect some imbalance. In any case, no matter the causative factors, the natural polarity of positive and negative energies will not be adjusted again until the Right nostril becomes more active.
There are certain measures which can help and are used prior to breathing exercises. One is to cleanse the nostrils with cold water sniffing or with some it may be best to use warm salted water. The cold water will reduce any inflammation of the tissues in the nose. Some people prefer to splash the nose with cold water. Sneezing afterwards is considered a normal reaction. This practice called Neti is done by yogis using a special Neti pot for the purpose.
Steam inhalations and also direct inhalation of essential oils is beneficial with peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil and pine oil being popular. It is largely a matter of personal selection to find which is most beneficial. Other delightful perfumes are found in cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, lemon and lime. Development of sensitivity of olfaction directly aids respiration as the regio respiratoria and the regio olfactoria are closely associated in the brain itself.
There are also other subtle therapies proving helpful in the treatment of asthma but therapy for this condition necessarily involves more direct physical treatment upon the spine, body posture, muscular exercises and controls including certain techniques known in Yoga as 'bandhas'. There must be immediate relief given in cases of critical and acute symptom s of asthma attack but long term reconditioning of the whole person is important also, along with the need to practise the art of relaxation and muscular exercises to reduce strain on the nervous system.
By whatever therapeutic means you may undertake, seek also to correct any displacement of the spine which can affect the nose, the thyroid, the diaphragm, the solar plexus and the organs of digestion. Any spinal problem in these areas can aggravate asthma.
The yogi looks upon the breath as the means of connection of spirit to body and the spiritual connection of the individual to the universal. Therefore, respiration is considered not only as a mechanical means of taking oxygen in to the body and exhaling wastes, but is a function which assists both integration of the personality and provides our personal lifeline to our Life Source.
Help the asthmatic patient to reduce his inner tensions and balance his nature, to melt his frustration and his fears and recover his smooth and comforting link with his lifeline through establishment of his free and natural breathing rhythm.
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