Difference between Pranayam and Meditation
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.
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Benefits of Pranayama
1. Resistance against diseases increases
2. Lungs performance improves
3. Digestive system improves
4. Immunity against diseases improves
5. Thinking becomes positive
6. Toxins are reduced from the body
7. Helps in reducing depression
8. Able to think more constructively
9. Brain functions improves
10. Reduce anger
11. Helps in meditation
12. Feel satisfied, happy, enthusiastic, stable, relaxed
13. Skin condition improves
14. Face brightens
15. Helps in reducing wrinkles
16. Helps in improving hair quality
17. Diseases like Diabetes, Obesity, Allergy, Migraine, Respiratory problems, High blood pressure, Asthma can be avoided and controlled
18. Heart performance and condition improves
What to do if 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.
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