Yoga Pranayama Learn to control breathing

Through yogic pranayama practice, these five vital energies in the body can operate harmoniously, while maintaining our energy, activating the higher energy centers (chakras) in the body and developing higher consciousness and wisdom of life. This is a more subtle and advanced exercise than yoga asana practice.

Our breath is divided into four parts:

l. Puraka-suck

2. Antara kumbhaka-Hold your breath after inhalation, hanging inside

3. Recaa-call

4. Bahya kumbhaka-Hold your breath after exhaling, hanging out

The various techniques of yoga pranayama practice combine the four parts of the breath in different ways, duration, speed, strength, amplitude and intensity to achieve energy control. The state of our hearts and minds is closely related to our breathing. When our breathing is rapid, superficial and scattered, the mind cannot be quiet, and it is difficult for the mind to have in-depth thinking and judgment. This makes it difficult to enter the higher level of yoga-the control of mind.

The breathing of yoga is an important part of yoga practice and the key to whether yoga practice can receive benefits. Breathing is the link between people and the physiology and spirit. Correct yoga practice must start with the practice of breathing and should not start with the asana method. However, the utilitarian thinking of this era makes it too easy for people to ignore internal training and simply show it on the surface. Therefore, the practice of postures thrives while the breathing method is not valued. This is a very serious mistake in direction.

When performing the breathing method, consciousness must concentrate on breathing, just like a mother caring for her child's every move with love.

When practicing yoga breathing, you must use postures to complement the following exercises of the lungs, diaphragm, intercostal muscles and diaphragm to allow rhythmic breathing. Consciousness remains one with the breath until the breath becomes correct and rhythmic. Consciousness guides how the breath distributes the inhaled breath through relevant channels to cells throughout the body. Breathing ultimately reaches the inner self. The role of consciousness is to connect the inner self with the breath and body.

During the inhalation process, the practitioner changes his brain into an organ that receives and distributes energy flow. When inhaling, don't inhale too much to avoid causing dizziness, swelling and pain.{This is a factor that the body's veins are not open. In addition, don't bulge your abdomen, otherwise the lungs will not fully expand. Inhaling and exhaling should not be forced or too fast, otherwise, it will increase the burden on the heart and cause brain disorders.

The so-called exhalation is to expel impure air (carbon dioxide) from the body. When exhaling, consciously lift your upper chest and slowly and rhythmically expel the air. Pay close attention to the rhythm of your breathing. Some people breathe in for a long time, and some people breathe out for a long time. Just like difficulties and challenges, people's blood pressure and blood flow are also different. The purpose of practicing yoga breathing is to remove imbalances and obstacles in breathing and blood pressure, eliminate restlessness, stop your unique thoughts and hobbies, and liberate yourself from obsession.

When practicing breathing, you should be careful not to breathe deliberately. Breathing runs through the entire movement. When a bottle of perfume is placed in front of you, you will inhale and exhale normally, but when you are reminded to smell the perfume, your breathing will subconsciously intensify. You will encounter the same problem when practicing yoga. When it comes to breathing, your brain will subconsciously become tense, making it difficult to breathe freely. Adjustment method: Practice more. Breathing can be practiced. Control your thoughts slowly and don't imply that you breathe deliberately. Slowly restore the breathing in your subconscious mind to a free and natural state, coordinate your breathing with many movements of your body, and drive the movements to move through every form.

Benefits of yoga and pranayama:

1. Practicing deep breathing can fully exercise and strengthen the diaphragm muscles, intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, and enhance lung capacity (oxygen intake is one of the ways to accept prana).

2. Enhance brain and nervous system function (neurasthenia, insomnia, excessive excitement, impetuosity or depression).

3. Enhance cardiovascular function, beneficially massage and stimulate the heart and blood circulation system, and eliminate toxins in the blood.

4. Massage internal organs and prevent all other internal organs diseases of the digestive system.

5. Make the fire of digestion in the body strong, eliminate toxins, and make the body light.

6. Purify and balance the left and right meridians, so that the mind is clear and focused, and the emotions are calm and peaceful.

7. Awakening the higher energy kundalini shakti.

8. Be prepared to enter deeper meditation and experience higher spiritual awareness.

Points to note when practicing breathing:

1. Before practice, Ji Jian holds a good posture to prepare, such as sitting on the ground, bending his legs cross-legged, and straightening his back.

2. Practice chest breathing or abdominal breathing, both inhaling and exhaling through the nose

3. Focus your consciousness on your breathing during practice, pay attention to the ups and downs of your chest or abdominal cavity, collect your energy, and ensure that there are no distractions in your mind.

4. When inhaling, you should inhale air slowly and deeply through your nostrils, just like a water-absorbing sponge that slowly expands.

5. When exhaling, you should also keep it gentle and slender, just like a fine silkworm spinning silk.

Yoga Breathing and Health

1. It can increase lung capacity and improve breathing efficiency.

2. Stimulate the secretion of endorphins "endorphins"

3. Relax your mind and thoughts, and strengthen your organs to be normal? P>

4. Regulate the nervous system, relax the mood, purify the emotions, relax and relieve pressure.

5. Use breathing to remove toxins in the body, such as dirty gas, turbid gas, and metabolic waste.

6. Increase the supply of oxygen to the brain and activate brain cells.

7. Cleanse the blood in the body and improve the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.

8. Enhance energy and help the flow of qi in the body during meditation.

9. Massage the internal organs of the body to strengthen organ functions

10. Stimulate the endocrine system and make hormones secrete normally.

11. Promote the gastric and abdominal constipation and prevent habitual constipation. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)