Learning to breath - Part 1.

Our life and the quality of our life depend on the breath. Controlled breathing gives us a lengthier life and more resistance because if provides rich oxygenation to all the cells in the body.

Vital energy, prana, is present in the whole universe, in solid food, in water and in air. We need to eat and drink water, but we also need in an imperative way to breathe air in order to live. When we breathe in air, we are breathing in air charged with positive prana and when we expulse air from our lungs breathing out, the air is charged with negative prana. This form of prana is called apana. Prana in the body is manifested in five ways that regulate the body’s different vital functions: the functioning of the lungs, prana-prana; the excretory organs, prana-apana; the organs that intervene in the swallowing process, prana-udhana; those that intervene in the process of assimilation, prana-samana and all the necessary processes for the circulation of the bodily fluids and nervous currents, prana-vyana.

In our astral body, the positive energy in the form of ha, circulates through nadi pingla, which converges in the right nostril, and the negative energy, apana in the form of tha, circulates through the left nostril. Throughout the day we breathe approximately 21.000 times. Someone who practises Vyayam, a Vyayamika, always keeps this natural law in mind: “the more quickly you breathe, less life time you will have, and the less you breathe, guarantees you more life time”.

Breathing flows through any one of the nostrils during a period of approximately one hour. After this, it alternates and begins to flow through the other nostril. The act of breathing is known as “Svara” and the change between one nostril and the other is known as “Udaya”, for this reason the whole process together is called Svarodaya. When the alternation of the breath between one nostril and the other does not occur, unbalance is produced causing illnesses, psychological problems, collapse and even death.


® Written by ~ Swami Shankaratilakananda
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