How to do Pranayama Exercises? – Benefits of Yoga, Resulting in Good Health, Healthy Mind and Glowing Skin
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How to do Pranayama Exercises - The Right Way to Get The Most of Pranayama Benefits
At a recent discussion with my friends, when we were talking about the new generation and the better understanding of youth and our kids, we came to conclusion that the new generation is sometimes very impatient and also restless, gets depressed and demotivated easily. No doubt, the present generation is smart, intelligent and in many ways 'fast forward" in getting things done and accomplishing achievements. However, qualities and value such as gratitude, perseverance and steadfastness is missing in many.
As a way of this superfast moving life style, people easily get stresses and frequent burn-outs, in extreme cases they get nervous breakdowns as well. So, here comes Ayurveda and Yoga to help out people with fast pace lives to get most of Pranayama benefits from breathing exercises.
How to do Pranayama exercises the right way?
There are more than one ways of doing Pranayama and the easiest one is the natural breathing. Natural breathing which is also known as "Ana Pana" in Vipassana courses relies on focusing on natural breath. The aspirant or the meditator has just to focus on his breath naturally without changing the pace of natural breath. Neither does one need to count with inhaling and exhaling. In fact, the meditators are given strict guidelines not to tamper with the natural rhythm of the breath.
Another way is the "Anulom Vilom Pranayam" as taught by the holy Baba Ramdev. Anulom-Vilom Pranayam needs the meditator to inhale slowly from one nostril with a deep breath closing the other nostril. Next step is to open the second nostril and exhale deeply with this nostril. The process has to be repeated for duration of 10 to 15 minutes. Afterwards, the same breathing exercise has to be done by reversing the nostrils, vice-versa. This essentially means if you are inhaling from the left, now you have to do it from right nostril and exhale from the left.
Needless to say, the process has to be done with calm mind and straight posture keeping the legs folded while sitting and the spinal cord straight.
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How to do pranayama exercises?
Pranayama Video
Watch Baba Ramdev pranayam video to learn to do pranayama asana correctly. The pranayama exercises are the most easiest and can be even done by bed-ridden patients. Regularly practicing is the key to pranayama yoga, breathing thus improves and paves the way to the critical life-sustaining oxygen to the respiratory system and the entire body rejuvenates.
Quotes from Hatha Yoga Pradipika
"When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. "
Breathing Exercises for Stress
How to do Pranayama for relieving stress?
Not everyone knows that yoga is just not about healthy body, it is about a healthy mind in a healthy body. Why? Because; our body and mind are closely related. Remember Einstein's theory about "Mind and Matter", mass can be converted to energy by E =mc2. Sometimes it is difficult to perceive and understand the Mind. What is mind after all? It isn't the physical aspect of brain, it is about energy and the vibration, for the brain is dead without mind (the life). So the activity of brain is associated with thoughts and is very closely related to body. A depressed body is unhealthy and causes the mind to take the stress and in turn it becomes ill and unhealthy too.
Yoga and breathing exercises for stress function as a complementary therapy and not as a preventive therapy while dealing with ailments of body and mind. Depression, Anxiety attacks, nervousness are a result of fear of failure, stressful conditions and environment and can originate due to genetic reasons and family heredity. Each person is an island of emotions, very distinct from other and the behavior patterns due to social and environmental difference can trigger different symptoms and illness.
How to do Pranayama exercises while stressed?
Breathe deeply and slowly when you are stressed. By force of habit your mind will go astray very often. Be patient and the pranayama asana magic will work. When the body gets excited and provoked due to such reactions, the natural rhythm of breathing is disturbed; the turbulence causes the breathing to become uneven. The upheavals causes stress in the body and the reactions and sensations that surface on the body are due to the signals from mind. If you can calm breath and do not react to bodily sensation, your blood pressure and heart beats will not rise, thus controlling the mind and checking the provocations. These results in checking the disease with breathing exercises for stress as you must know that most of the diseases are psychosomatic - which means "mind generated".
Breathe Your Anxiousness Away with Pranayama exercises.
When the body gets excited and provoked due to such reactions, the natural rhythm of breathing is disturbed; the turbulence causes the breathing to become uneven. The upheavals causes stress in the body and the reactions and sensations that surface on the body are due to the signals from mind. If you can calm breath and do not react to bodily sensation, your blood pressure and heart beats will not rise, thus controlling the mind and checking the provocations. These results in checking the disease as you must know that most of the diseases are psychosomatic - which means "mind generated".
Breathing exercises for stress can start from the moment you wake up, and start your day. You can be conscious of your breath once you get up, by focusing on the natural breath or do " Anulom Vilom pranayam on your cot in a sitting posture with the back straight. Best way is not to lean on the pillow, but if you have to lean on it do it with the spinal cord straight.
Once you rise up from the bed, use a yoga mat after finishing your daily chores to do yoga asanas. Select a healthy location with pleasant wind and sun to do your morning pranayama asana.
Yoga and Pranayama Asana
Easy Breathing Exercises for Relieving Stress
How to do Pranayama exercises if you are ill?
A healthy body is fit to take exercises and stress whereas a sick body requires rest. You might not be able to do the several Yoga asanas but the beauty of pranayama asanas is that you can do it in a sleeping position too. Of course, if you are too ill, you should take rest as directed by a physician.
How to do Pranayama exercises if you are not feeling well?
To begin with, hold your breath for 5 seconds, inhale slowly without any stress and hold for 10 seconds, exhale for 5 seconds. Usually the proportion in which inhaling and holding is done is 1:2, but you can do the way you feel comfortable with a relaxed mind, slowly you will feel that your body is relaxing too.
Short, convenient bouts of pranayama exercises at any juncture during short intervals and meetings can help stabilize your raging thoughts anytime and anywhere. This universal technique is available all the time with you and serves as your best friend to calm and soothe the agitation.
If you are too stressed or anxious, it helps to this asana with closed eyes. Detach yourself from the scene, situation and take 10 to 15 deep breaths, focus on your breath, focus on the sensations at your nostrils. Within 5 minutes, you will experience the difference.
For newbie's, it is very common to lose concentration and focus during breathing exercises. My advice to them is to keep the regular practice and not give away, slowly you will be able to master your mind and not let your mind dictate you as is the usual pattern. To break the pattern of chattering and the restlessness of mind, you will have to patiently bring back your mind to the object of focus every moment it runs away from the scene of action i.e. the nostril.
Don't despair slowly you will conquer the mind and also the body.
Cheers!!!
Benefits of Yoga
How to do Pranayama Exercises to Tackle Depression?
Learning to having the right attitude towards, oneself, accepting oneself and the consequences of environment, culture, ethics and social responsibilities is the first step towards caring for your body and mind. The next step is to take care of your body through diet and 'Yoga asanas". The eight fold path that Buddha teaches with infinite compassion is the foundation for controlling the mind through breathing exercises and rising above one's reactive nature. Instead of becoming passive or reactive, Ana-Pana teaches us to be active in reasoning and then taking decision with conscious mind with unbiased views.
Depression is an illness, which comes as a real threat for so many of us in our life-time in so many 'Avatars' and manifestations. There is not one soul in this universe who has not experience helplessness, homelessness and worthlessness at some or other time. Depression in its extreme manifestation can be very deadly and fatal with self destruction such as suicide. Since body action is mind driven, if you can somehow control your mind through breathing exercises you can easily tackle depression.
Yoga comes as a rescue with simple exercises in dealing stress by pranayama and practicing "Nispandh-Bhava" an exercise that helps to develop compassion and attitude of letting-go. It teaches you to forgive and forget.
It is prudent to take help from the psychiatrist, counselors and physician in extreme cases of metal unbalance and depression. In serious cases, it is mandatory for the patient to be assessed by qualified specialists.
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- Thanks for adding "Breathing Excercises-Introduction to Pranayama"...very useful tutorial on the using proper breathing techiques and postures. I will definitely incorporate some of the lessons into my daily routine.
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- Thank you for this useful reminder of how To use breathing to control stress.
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- A leading Russian physiologist Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, MD, PhD, discovered the mechanism how yoga, through slowing breath, can achieve amazing transformation of a person and super health. This is from his Lecture:
"Advocates of deep breathing confuse these two concepts and, in their defense, they say, ?Yogi, for thousands of years, breathe deeply and we see that they are super-humans?. Quite the contrary. Full breathing of yogi is shallow breathing in our understanding. It is done, first, very slowly, inhalations and exhalations as well; second, with maximum breath holds after inhalations and exhalations."
More at http://www.normalbreathing.com/yoga-breathing.php
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