FAQs (and not so FAQs) About Breathing
Let us have a look at the mechanics of breathing and how it can help us improve our breathing.
What do you mean we have to learn breathing? Doesn’t it happen on its own? Yes. It does. But even then we can learn to improve breathing. Breathing muscles are controlled by both involuntary and voluntary mechanisms. The body automatically breathes even if we don’t deliberately think about it. But if we control our breathing (make it slower / faster / deeper) we can do so.
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Why is Pranayama so Important?
There was once a minister to a great king. He fell into disgrace. The king, as a punishment, ordered him to be shut up in the top of a very high tower. This was done, and the minister was left there to perish. He had a faithful wife, however, who came to the tower at night and called to her husband at the top to know what she could do to help him.
He told her to return to the tower the following night and bring with her a long rope, some stout twine, pack thread, silken thread, a beetle, and a little honey. Wondering much, the good wife obeyed her husband, and brought him the desired articles. Pranayama Meaning
Pranayama, the 4th step of Yoga, is commonly understood as breathing practices. The following is a guest post explaining the bigger picture.
When Meditation Does not Work
Let us have a look into each of the eight steps and how to apply them in our practice.
Yama and Niyama are the two foundational disciplines, meant to be followed in day-to-day life to achieve stillness of body and mind, to conserve energy and channelize it to achieve spiritual purposes. Without those, meditation will yield only limited results and not cause any fundamental shift in the nature of the individual. WHAT Is Meditation? Who Invented Meditation?
So, what is meditation?
Meditation is the 7th step of the Ashtanga Yoga (Eightfold Yoga) practices. And what is Yoga? These days, anything involving twisting and turning the body is termed as Yoga. Though the difficult poses are part of Yoga, mistaking the part as the whole can be misleading. How Meditation Helps?
Do you love period drama? Or futuristic science fiction?
Have you wished to live in those times? If you are like me, then probably yes. But are you aware of your own ability to time travel? Will Meditation Help Me?
Have you considered meditation and then given up because you just can't concentrate?
You are too old to start? Or maybe too young to ‘give up on life’ and start meditating? |