Basic breathing exercise - Bhastrika pranayam : Baba Ramdev

Baba Ramdev

Sit comfortably.

Keep your spine straight.

Inhale / Breath in with both the nostrils.

Fill up fully your lungs upto diaphragm with air.

Donot expand your stomach, expand your chest ribs.

Inhale / Breath in comfortably.

Exhale / Breath out with both nostril.

Exhale / Breath out comfortably.

(Exhale / Breath out with some force if you are experienced practitioner or if you are doing this exercise for more than a month)

Always take advice from registered medical practitioner before doing any exercise.

Do this breathing exercise for two to five minutes.

This breathing exercise is first step towards meditation.

This breathing exercise is good for lungs.

All breathing exercises are good for our whole physical body as well as our thinking process. They provide us more oxygen, calm our mind.

The humming breathing exercise - Brahmari pranayam : Ramdev Baba

Ramdev Baba

Sit erect ( spine straight ) in any comfortable position.

Raise your hand, both palms facing your forehead.

Close your ears with the help of your thumbs so that you do not hear any outside sound.

Place your index finger on forehead, close your eyes by placing comfortably next two fingers, ring finger and middle finger on your eyes. The little finger should be placed on the side of the nostril base.

Inhale through both nostrils at your comfort level.

Exhale through both nostrils making humming sound like mmmmmmmmm or hummmmmmmm in your throat.

Keep your mouth closed.

The sound while exhaling is like a honey / humming / buzzing bee.

Repeat. Their is no sound while inhaling.

Do this breathing exercise from 3 to 21 times as per your comfort level.

This breathing exercise makes you feel relaxed, helps reduce stress and anxiety.

Do this breathing exercise and experience the benefit.

All breathing and yogic exercises develop your complete body.

Please consult registered medical practitioner before doing any exercise.

Rajesh

http://rajeshmsharma.blogspot.com

Difference between Pranayam and Meditation

Pranayam are breathing exercises which helps us to have control over our breath.

Pranayama helps us to have easy and controlled breath that does not waver with emotions.

Meditation is an exercise / conscious effort in concentrating / focusing the mind on something, or a conscious mind with no thoughts.

Pranayam and Meditation are complimentary to each other.

Pranayam is study of breath and comes before Meditation.

Pranayam is one of the path to achieve Meditation.

Pranayam makes our mind ready for meditation.

Doing Pranayam before Meditation leads us to Meditate easily.

Meditation is consciously concentrating whole of your mind on one single thought or no thought at all.

Meditation is a kind of conscious sleeping. That is sleeping being aware of your surroundings. During sleep we are not aware about our surroundings while in meditation you should be aware of you surrounding.

Meditation can be achieved through various ways, Pranayam is one of them. Meditation can also be achieved through one's work or through devotion.

Rajesh

http://rajeshmsharma.blogspot.com

Why was I not thought about Love, Compassion, Enligthenment, Yoga, Pranayam, Meditation in School?

Why are we thought about War, Country borders, Dissection, XX and XY , Lehman Bros, Diseases and not about Love (other than xx and xy), Compassion, Yoga, Pranayam, Meditation, in our School Education System?

Yog ( Yoga ) is

Yam ( Yama )

Niyam ( Niyama )

Asan ( Asana )

Pranayam ( Pranayama )

Pratyahar ( Pratyahara )

Dharan ( Dharana )

Dhyan ( Dhyana )

Samadhi

Rajesh

How does a person become self reliant?

How does a person become self reliant?

By doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation.

When you start doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, you start realizing yourself. You start become more healthy, you do not fall ill. You start connecting with nature.

Once you get healthy and start connecting with nature by doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, your need and wants start decreasing naturally, automatically.

Your urge for more starts decreasing. If you are alcoholic or smoker, your urge or need for them automatically decreases.

You start enjoying Pranayam and Meditation, you start enjoying the mountains, sun, sea, colors, flowers. You donot feel that you should have more and more

You start feeling oneness with everything.Your urge to have your name on everything decreases.

Your need for artificial momentary happiness, which later has worse hang up reduces.By doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, your urge to eat unhealthy food decreases.

You automatically start avoiding unhealthy food. If you have unhealthy food before you, you will get natural power not to eat it.

We become self reliant by doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation because our body balances itself.

What to do if you are unable to sleep ?

When you go to bed to sleep and are unable to sleep, you wait for sleep to come. Change your sides, but unfortunately sometimes you are unable to sleep.

There can be various reasons for not being able to sleep. May be you are under stress or you have some tension, or you slept much during the day. Some times even though you are feeling sleepy, but are unable to sleep.

Instead of just lying on the bed, do the following:

1. Sit and rub your feet, give massage to your feet including sole's for 5 minutes each.

2. Massage both your calf's for 5 minutes each.

3. Rub your palm and massage your wrist upto elbow for 5 minutes each.

4. Massage you hand and feet, toes and fingers.

5. Sit. Keep your spine straight. Fold your hands and touch your shoulder's with your palm fingers and rotate your arms from your shoulder for 10 times.

6. Straighten your hands, close your palm with thumb inside your palm, touch both your closed palms together and rotate your palms.

7. Straighten your legs, keep them together and rotate your feet’s, both together ten times clockwise, ten times anti clockwise.

8. Lie down on your stomach, put your palms besides your shoulders, raise your chest and shoulders, bring them down. Do this for 5 times.

9. If you know about yoga, pranayam than do them. Just remember you need to be empty stomach to do some yoga and pranayam.

10. Meditation is a conscious sleep, which gives better results than sleep. If you had done meditation in past than do it now also, instead of just lying down and waiting to sleep.

Please take advice from registered medical practitioner before doing any form of exercise.

This is for people who do not have any illness and may not be able to sleep some times due to some stress or tension or due to any other reason.

Give time to yourself

Give time to eat. Chew your food properly. Eat healthy food.

Give time to breathe. Take deep breathe. Give time to inhale and exhale.

Give time to exercise, do yoga, do pranayam, meditate.

Give time to talk. Pause before you speak.

Give time to keep silence.

Give time to your Parents, Spouse / Partner, Siblings, Childrens, Friends.

Give time serve others.

Give time to bath.

Give time to your hobby.

Give time to brush your teeth.

Give time to rest.

Give time to sleep.

Give time to go to nature.

Give time to walk on green grass.

Give time to see sunrise

Give time to see sunset.

Give time to yourself.

Difference between normal breathing and Pranayam ( Pranayama )

Simple or normal breathing is natural breathing. We donot think that we are breathing during normal or natural breathing. We do our normal daily routine and breathe. When we breathe and donot think or feel our breathe, it is normal breathing or simple breathing. During normal or simple breathing we are not aware that we are breathing.

During Pranayam, we breathe consciously. We feel our breathe, we control our breathe, we know that we are breathing. During Pranayam ( Pranayama ) we are aware about our breathe. We are aware that we are inhaling and exhaling. We may breath from one nostril and exhale from same or other nostril. We may inhale for number of seconds, and exhale for number of seconds and keep track of it. We may stop our breath for few seconds.

When we are breathing consciously and controlling our breathe, that is Pranayam. ( Pranayama )

Pran means breath and ayama is control. Pranayam means control of breath.

Is your body Rich ! What is the value of your body ?

You know the value of your clothes. You feel proud that you are wearing costly clothes. You roam in Super Malls for hours and feel that you are rich.

You know the value of your house. You show off your costly house.

Is your body rich !

How glamorous is your inner body !

What about your body my friend !

Is it costly ?

Are you taking proper care of your body ?

Are you putting in time and money in your body ?

You are wearing costly clothes.

You have a big house.

Do you know what is the value of your eyes !

Do you know what is the value of of your liver !

Do you know what is the value of your stomach !

Do you know what is the value of your large intestine !

Do you know what isthe value of your small intestine !

Do you know what is the value of your spleen !

Do you know what is the value of your pancreas !

Healthy body is the biggest wealth.

Give time for proper maintanence of your body.

Devote time to take proper care of your body.

Your body is not just your skin or hair.

Taking care of your skin and hair is not enough.

Let the glow come from within your body.

Improve your inner body.

Improve your stomach, lungs, intestine, spleen, pancreas etc.

Remove toxins from your body.

Give exercise to your body.

Do Yoga and Pranayam and learn to Meditate.

Movie stars have great body. They earn money because of their looks and body and acting skills and not because of their clothes. They keep themselves healthy and take good care of their outer and inner body.

My personal experience doing Pranayam and Yoga as thought by His Holiness Swami Ramdevji Maharaj

My personal experience doing Pranayam and Yoga exercises as thought by His Holiness Swami Ramdevji Maharaj is extremely helpful.

Because of His Holiness Swami Ramdevji Maharaj Pranayam and Yoga, personally my fear of disease and death has vanished.

His Holiness Swami Ramdevji Maharaj explained that as a ‘second’ could cause death, in the same way a ‘second’ could give you life, which is absolutely true. Doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation gives us great healthy life.

If our wrong life style could lead us to diseases, our correct lifestyle and correct way of living could lead us to healthy living.

If nature has power to cause diseases, same nature has power to make us healthy.

There are no reason we should be fearful of diseases.

Doing Yoga, Pranayam, Meditation, being close to nature, eating healthy food, we can experience the great healthy living.

Rajesh

http://rajeshmsharma.blogspot.com

Easy way to get intoxicated - Easy way to meditate

Take a walk comfortably or walk briskly or jog, (depending on your walking / jogging practice and experience) for 30 to 45 minutes.

While walking / jogging if possible inhale / breath in and exhale / breath out.

(Ha ha, you will say everybody inhale / breath's in and exhale / breath's out)

If possible just remember that you are inhaling / breathing in and exhaling / breathing out.

When you think that you are breathing in when you inhale and you are breathing out when you exhale, it is conscious breathing.

If possible jog for one minute at the end of the walk (If you are just walking).

(I am writing the term 'if possible' because while doing any exercise you should feel good and comfortable, specially for meditation and yogic exercises)

After walking / brisk walking / jogging sit comfortable with your spine straight.

As you have jogged for last minute or more at the completion of this walk / jog, you will be able to feel your breath.

After sitting comfortably with spine straight - "breath" (that is inhale / breath in and exhale / breath out) for two to thirty minutes as per your comfort level at one place. You can start with two minutes and go on increasing the time as per your comfort.

You should sit breathing after a walk or jog maximum for 45 minutes.

You may feel dizzy or intoxicated during this process. If you are new to this exercise and feel dizzy or intoxicated during this process - stop.

Remember always feel comfortable while doing any exercise.

If you feel comfortable continue it for 45 minutes.

Donot be aware of time, you will automatically feel like getting up after 45 minutes or even earlier.

Donot force yourself, if you feel like ending it, end it.

Always take recommendation from a registered medical practitioner before doing any exercise.

Congrats if you sit for two minutes or more, sitting comfortably, with your spine straight and breathing, you have successfully meditated.

You would say, "but I am always breating"

Yes dear friend, you are always breathing "but are you always aware that you are breathing".

Being aware that you are breathing is meditation.

Dear friends lets be aware of our breath and get intoxicated by breathing pure god gifted air, which is available free to those who put money value on everything and may be do not value things which are freely available.

God bless!

Rajesh

http://rajeshmsharma.blogspot.com

Pranayam

Pranayam addresses stress on the layer more subtle than the physical one, that is the vital energy layer. According to the yogic theory, mental & emotional imbalance first affects breathing and pranic imbalance and prolonged imbalance at this layer may affect the physical body.

On the physical level , stress can change the one’s pattern of breathing. One of the ways of responding to stress is holding our breathe, and the other response is fast or shallow breathe. This happens automatically without being our controlled to combat the stressful situation. In either case, the pattern of breathing is disturbed & affected. If the stress is prolonged, it becomes chronic stress & this pattern of breathing becomes our habit & natural to us.

Breath is a bridge between body & mind. Any changes in your body & mind affect your breathing. The same way changes in the breathing affect body & mind.When the mind is tensed or disturbed , breathing is fast & shallow & mind is relaxed or calm, breathing becomes slow, regular & deeper. The imbalances in the breathing in the long run disturbs the body & mind . & deep breathing produces relaxation effects in body & mind.

The act of breathing is an involuntary action, an unconscious process, can be controlled and changed voluntarily through pranayam.The vital energy flows through pranic channels called nadis, & according to yogic texts there are 72,000 nadis in human body , out of which 3 are main nadis, Ida, Pingla & Sushumna. The flow of prana through Ida & Pingla is connected to the left & right nostrils respectively also connected to the left & right brain.Ida is Chandra/Moon nadi, and its predominant activity promotes slowing down or cooling effect, similar to found in parasympathetic stimulation. Pingla is surya nadi & it’s predominanat activity stmulates activity & energy, similar to sympathetic stimulation.