Pranayam

How to Do Pranayam :

Pranayama (also spelled Pranayama) is an ancient part of Perform
Yoga Postures practice, the fourth part of the eight-fold Yoga
described in the ""Yoga Sutra of Patanjali". Pranayama is concerned
with breathing and posture. Research has shown that that practicing
Pranayama can relieve symptoms of asthma. It is also beneficial in
treating stress related disorders, such as anxiety and depression.
Pranayam supplies oxygen to the entire body, and exercises the
lungs, the stomach and its surrounding organs.

There are a total of six types of Pranayam practice:
1. Bhastrika Pranayama
2. Anulom Vilom Pranayama
3. Kapalabhati Pranayama
4. Bahya Pranayam
5. Bhramari Pranayama
6. Udgeeth Pranayam

The three most popular are detailed here.

Steps

1. Bhastrika Pranayam:
Sit in comfortable position, you may sit even on a chair.
Breathe in untill the lungs are full through your nostrils.
Feel the diaphragm move down to allow the lungs to
expand and forcing the abdomen out, followed by
the mid section of your chest expanding andfinally
your collar bone rising.
Breath out forcefully and uniformly, again through your
nostrils.
Again feel the collar bone dropping, chest deflating and
the diaphragm moving up as the lungs collapse
allowing the abdomen to be sucked in. This process
of exhaling should be much faster than the process
of inhaling.
Repeat the process.
When correctly done, your chest will expand when you
breathe in and deflate when you breathe out.
Continue doing this for 5 minutes.

2. Kapalbhati Pranayam:

Sit erect.
Inhale through your nostrils a little and exhale through both
nostrils forcefully.
Inhale again a little and follow with another forceful exhalation
passively and effortlessly.
Continue these cycles. The frequency should be about 60
strokes/minute.
Continue doing this for 15 minutes. You may take a minutes
rest after every five minutes.

3.Anulom Vilom Pranayam:

Sit comfortably.
Close your eyes.
Close the right nostril with the right thumb.
Inhale slowly through the left nostril and fill your lungs with air.
Close your left nostril with the ring and middle fingers of the
right hand and open the right nostril.
Exhale slowly and completely with the right nostril.
Again inhale through the right nostril and fill your lungs.
Close the right nostril by pressing it with the right thumb.
Open the left nostril, breathe out slowly. (This process is one
round of Anulom Vilom Pranayam.)
Continue for 15 minutes. You may take a minutes rest after
every five minutes of exercise.

4. Bahya Pranayam:

Breathe air out, touch chin to chest, squeeze
stomach completely and hold for a while. then release chin, breathe
in slowly. Duration : 3 times to 5 times normally.

5. Bhramari Pranayam:

Close ears with thumb, index finger on
forehead, and rest three on base of nose touching eyes. Breathe in.
And now breathe out through nose while humming like a bee. Do this
three times.

6. Udgeeth Pranayam:

Breathe in deeply, and chant 'Om'kar.
OOOOOOm ( long O and small m. Do this 3 times.

Understand the Benefits of Pranayama Practice

Depending on the intensity of the ailment a person doing regular
Pranayam starts getting good results from day one. However it can take from one week to approximately nine months to get
the complete benefits of Pranayam.

Health changes can include:

Respiratory troubles clearing up, in addition to improvements
to allergies, migraines, High blood pressure, diseases
pertaining to the kidneys, and sexual dysfunction in males
and females.
A calming of excitement, anxiety, fear, anger, disappointment,
the lust for sex (lasciviousness), masturbation and other
mental states.
The digestive system improves.
Memory improves.
Pain in the joints vanishes.
The process of aging is retarded. Falling of the hair or
premature graying, the appearance of wrinkles on the
face or other parts of the body at young age, diminution of
eyesight etc. are all minimized.
The face becomes bright, luminous and calm.
Pranayam cures or improves the following chronic diseases:
Diabetes
H.B.P.
Angina
Blockages in Arteries
Obesity
Asthma
Bronchitis
Leucoderma
Depression
Parkinson
Insomnia
Thyroid problems
Arthritis
Cervical Spondalities
Hepatitis
Chronic Renal Failure
Cancer
Cirrhosis of the Liver
Gas
Constipation
Acidity

Tips

Do Pranayam preferably in the morning with an empty stomach.
If you prefer to do Pranayam in the evening, do it on an empty
stomach and keep a gap of at least 5 hours between your meal
and Pranayam.
Those who cannot sit in Asanas can sit on the chair and do
Pranayam.
Never hold your breath while doing Pranayam.
Do about 1 to 5 minutes of jogging after Pranayam exercises as per
your physical ability.

WHAT IS BODY?

                        BODY, is defined in many ways there are many explanations, theories, but still basically the UNKNOWN and wonderful gift.
             body which we have now is "A HEAP OF FOOD" that we eat in our day-to-days.
body, simply what we know is, full of muscles, bones, ligaments, blood, fluids and all such things.
             even the dead body has all we have............
what i am coming to say is it is a team work of three things.....
                           1.BODY
                           2.MIND
                           3.SOUL - we don't know any perfect definition about soul. but it lies inside.

chakras in our body

What is Mind?

What is the mind?
What the mind is doing inside our body?
What it is?
             Ordinarily we think that mind is,
something substantial there inside the head.
             when we start to think about the mind. We think about the mind and keep on thinking, after we come to  a satisfactory answer. we used to decide what we thought of is called mind.
             mind is a collection of everything what you have got from the 5 senses. EYE, EARS, SKIN, TONGUE and NOSE.
             whatever we SEE, HEAR, TOUCH, TASTE and SMELL goes into the brain and the brain as usually stores it.
             (remember that persons who don't have any sense organs functioning from the time of birth, don't knows what it is.  example: 1.person without eye don't knows what's light
                                          2.person without ears don't knows what's sound
                                          and so on....)
I HAVE TOLD ABOUT WHAT THE SENSES DO,
BUT,
WHAT DOES THE MIND DO??????   WHAT IS IT??????

but the real truth is,
                    Mind is just a function, IT IS AN ACTIVITY.
                    YOU can check this,  YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE ME because, that is what is happening right from our birth. mind keeps on popping, always popping the memories inside our brain.
                    when you are cooking, writing, working, bathing, driving, blogging, surfing, watching TV. Something keeps on going in our mind. AND WHEN YOU START TO THINK WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME ALWAYS, WHEN WHATEVER AND WHEN EVER I DO???        
                     WHEN THIS QUESTION REALLY ARISES IN YOU. THIS POST IS USEFUL TO YOU.... until then its really a waste.
      (PLEASE DON'T THINK ABOUT MIND, REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE THINKING WITH THE MIND)
                    You walk and I say you are walking. What is walking? If you stop, where is walking? If you sit
down, where the walking has gone? Walking is nothing substantial; it is an activity. So while you are
sitting, no one can ask, ”Where you have put your walking? Just now you were walking, so where
the walking has gone?” You will laugh. You will say, ”Walking is not something substantial, it is just
an activity. I can walk. I can again walk and I can stop. It is activity.”
Mind is also activity, but because of the word ”mind”, it appears as if something substantial is there.
It is better to call it ”minding” – just like ”walking”. Mind means ”minding”, mind means thinking. It is
an activity.”

THE SOLUTION IS:::::::::::::::

             Patanjali says just look. Let mind go, let mind do whatsoever it is doing. You just look. You don’t
interfere. You just be a witness, you just be an onlooker not concerned, as if the mind doesn’t belong
to you, as if it is not your business, not your concern. Don’t be concerned! Just look and let the
mind flow. It is flowing because of past momentum, because you have always helped it to flow. The
activity has taken its own momentum, so it is flowing. You just don’t cooperate Look, and let the
mind flow.
                                                                                         -Patanjali via OSHO