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

Question: When meditating I frequently have to cough.

Question:
When meditating I frequently have to cough. Only pops up then, not during my daily activities. Does this mean anything?

Answer:
Good question.

Before doing meditation, do some asanas, pranayam, breating exercises like nadi shodhan, bhastrika, kapalbhatti, savasana.

Exercise, asanas and pranayam are done to make our body healthy so that, while meditating, we should not be disturbed by our body.

These are the eight limbs of yog as described by Great Sage Respected Patanjali

Yam ( Yama )

Niyam ( Niyama )

Asan ( Asana )

Pranayam ( Pranayama )

Pratyahar ( Pratyahara )

Dharan ( Dharana )

Dhyan ( Dhyana )

Samadhi

We need to follow all above for good success in meditation

Body need to be perfected before becoming success in meditation.

Rajesh

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?

Yeehaaaaa......... I am in meditative state

Wow, It's fun, Great, I am enjoying it, I am having a blast, I am intoxicated.

I am meditating...

Yeehaaaa I am in meditative state...

Yeeehaaaa...

Rajesh

AIG celebrates with Tax Payers Money

After tax payers money rescued AIG, the AIG company executives were wining and dining at one of the exculsive resorts.

AIG company executives spent $440,000 of tax payers money on lavish retreat at California's top beach resort after accepting $85bn emergency loan from US government.

AIG executives should be following all the niyama's and yama's of Yoga. They should do Pranayam / Pranayama and Meditation to save tax payers money.

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.

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