IS IT YOGA, YOGAA OR EXERCISE OR BEYOND THAT??? PART – II

Now let’s talk about the yoga that people understand uncertainty today :

Stage-1: The first step is to get rid of the disease as an exercise only. They talk about only health, but not yogic perception and reachable of owns origin form.

Stage -2: Chaturvyuha with the help of which one can realize one’s true nature and can over come threefold suffering permanently.
Fourfold Strategy (Chaturvyuha) – Chaturvyuha of Ancient Medical Science

Roga (Disease)
Roga ka karana (Cause of disease)
Arogya (Health)
Bhaishjya (Treatment)

Chaturvyuha of Eastern Philosophy with special ref. to Maharishi Patanjali
Heya (suffering)
Heyahetu (cause of pain)
Hana (freedom from duhkha wherein feeling of well being prevails)
Hanopaya (means to achieve Hana State)

Stage-3: The practice of maintaining health – both of which are understood today as yoga therapy, but surprisingly, there is a misconception about yoga therapy. It is said that the beginning of yoga therapy is the time of research done by a university within a decade, but that is the beginning of a research paper done by a scholar in the presence of 2/4 hundred and they do not believe from the beginning of yoga practice.

Stage- 4: Thousands of years ago, sages, sages, yogis, etc., as a result of their hundreds of years of experimentation and thousands of years of experimental experience of other sages, as well as the processes of Kriya Yoga, preparation and purification, were all therapies, including the benefits and side effects of yoga. Or side effects. Adequate healing is mentioned in ancient yoga.

Stage-5:  They think yoga makes the body curvy or beautiful or flexible, to give strength enhancing yoga (yogasana). But yoga therapy is not the only purpose.

Stage-6: To do Jogging, Dandabaithaka, Tandava dancing, gymnastic stretch, sports play, singing the hymns of a guru is not the only yoga.

Stage-7: Wearing the ocher robe (in some people), growing a beard, being the president and patron of the ashram or organization for years, reciting Sanskrit verses, knowing the informatins found in Google is not just Yoga Practice or Yoga research.

Stage-8: Yoga is neither a modern religion, nor a culture, nor a politics. This is the religion of human, this is the religion of Shiva, this is the religion of Krishna, this is the religion of Buddha, and this is the religion of Tattva. What kind of spiritual politics to believe in Buddha but not to believe in Buddha’s self-religion, to believe in Shiva but not to believe in Shiva’s self-religion.

Stage -9: Whether it’s self-practice, whether it’s training, whether it’s copy and paste in research, it’s not just yoga.

The Realization of Yoga:

Yoga teaches us for survive 86,400 seconds in 24 hours. Yoga teaches to search for the Guru’s path, not the path of Google. This world universe is Yogalaya, and this body with our energy, mind and spirit and soul is the laboratory. Yoga is a gift from Supreme power that everyone has the right to receive.

 It moves to be in harmony with nature and the universe. Rising above my culture, my tradition, my religion, my dress, my geography, my politics, my society, my family, etc., respecting all, without discriminating, being bound, arrogance, greed for position, individualistic pride rise our lives. Not talking about status, not talking about authority, not being a master, following the rules and regulations, embracing human religion and Sanatan vedic  Dharma, practicing living with what is lacking, free from disease, suffering, grief, whatever is lacking. Trying to survive with that will be the body religion.

Now, what about this great knowledge of yoga and the ocean to those who understand yoga or yogasana, or to those who understand yoga and meditation separately? That is ignorance and to some extent it may be arrogance. The main part of yoga is meditation. Meditation is used in all practices, although asanas, postures, pranayamas, hymns, chanting mantras are also meditations. Similarly, eating, drinking, speaking, thinking, working, resting, etc. are meditations. And the eternal journey to eternal salvation and cavalry is also meditation.

Meditation is the ultimate means of maximum yoga. In Hatha Yoga or Saptang Yoga, the sixth organ is meditation and in Ashtanga Yoga, the seventh organ is meditation. Mantra Yoga’s Pranav Mantra and Divya or Bij Mantra Sadhana is meditation. Meditation is the ultimate state of knowledge, devotion, karma, etc. Yoga, and Raj Yoga is meditation in itself. There are 750 meditation methods or levels in Raj Yoga alone. There are thousands of methods of meditation. Therefore, one can reach yoga only through sadhana.

Conclusion:

Within the practice of yoga, there is a sequence of at least satkarma, sukshma Vyayama, prathana, exercise, asana, pranayama, bandha or mudra, meditation. However, there are many other practices such as Yama, Niyama, Ahara Yoga, Lifestyle, etc. There is a request that it is wrong to say yoga and meditation. Only part of meditation is understood more than meditation yoga, not all yogas are understood in it. And many people say yoga practice, pranayama, exercise and meditation, but what should be is exercise, yogasana, pranayama and meditation. Yoga practice does not mean yogasana or exercises, it means the sense of all yogic paths.  

Om Shanti: Shanti: Shanti:

IS IT YOGA, YOGAA, OR EXERCISE, OR BEYOND THAT? Let’s go deeper and understand it through this insightful article. Yoga is usually a union. Its meaning and knowledge are very wide. Yoga is a spiritual element of the universe. This is the result of the creation and existence of the universe. The law of origin of celestial bodies is yoga. One body with another body, one element with energy, one object with another substance, whatever came into existence as one, becomes one, bound in one formula, which forms Yoga. Therefore, we also take care of the effect or energy position of yoga in the planetary constellation. More about IS IT YOGA, YOGAA, OR EXERCISE?

If the union of body, mind, and soul is Yoga, the process of union is action. Soul is the conscious energy within the element or organism, and Parmatma is the cosmic conscious energy, which is active as ॐ = A + U + M. This is yoga. As a result, the cycle of creation (सृष्टि/जन्म); / birth; condition / life (स्थिति/जीवन) and disaster / death (प्रलय/मृत्यु) continues. The existence of every creation is cosmic energy. In the Panch Mahabhuta, the subtle form of the Aakaasha/Sky element is the word or sound or vibration (शब्द वा ध्वनि). From this sound came the complete Panchatattva, that is, all things. The union of words or a sound with the sky is yoga. The union of the Pancha tattva of nature is Yoga.

What Veda Says ?

According to Vedic or Sanatan doctrine, the power of creation, operation, and destruction was later considered to be the supreme unseen power. And later Puranic or Hindu doctrine got the likeness of the God-Trimurti as Gods- Brahma, Vishnu, and Maheshwara. Therefore, if the universe is a physical sky, then Om (Omkar) is energy. OMKAARA is the first universal name of God/ Supreme Power. This is Yoga

In ancient times, chanting, recitation (Japa), Tapa (penance), Sadhana, Upavasa (Fasting), Dhyana (meditation) were the means of the self-realization of spiritual/divine power, salvation, and the state of spiritual discipline was obtained, which was considered Yoga. This state of spiritual consciousness was understood based on the scriptures as Yoga itself, as samadhi, moksha, mukti, nirvana, and kaivalya. Based on the essence of yoga, Samadhi is also a partial path of Yoga, and through many Samadhi Paths, one reaches the state of Yoga, i.e., Kaivalya.

Veda Vyasa commented that “Yoga: Samadhi” means that yoga is samadhi and samadhi is yoga. Samadhi is also a part of Yoga. All the means, actions within the yoga make all realize the four elements of yoga. Such as Hey, Heyhetu, Han, and Hanopaya, for realizing the life, the universe, and the spiritual element, and for solving the problem.

The word ‘heya’ is a part of the fourfold system:

Heya: which is to be eliminated (suffering or duhkha)
Heya-hetu: cause of the pain
Heya-hana: process of eliminating the suffering
Hana-upaya: the means for eliminating the sufferings

Discussion on threefold Suffering (Duhkhatraya)

There are innumerable kinds of duhkha as one object that gives me pain may give pleasure to someone else. However, our sages have classified all kinds of pain under three heads:

Adhyatmika Duhkha (Intra-organic caused by oneself due to ignorance).
Adhibhautika Duhkha (Extra-organic caused by fellow beings or other creatures)
Adhidaivika Duhkha (Supernatural caused by natural calamities)

Maharishi Patanjali defines yoga in the philosophy of yoga as “Yogashchittavrittini Nirodh: 1. 2, that is, Yoga is to stop the many kinds of fired thoughts that arise in the mind. In the first stage, 24 to 40 thoughts come to the mind in a second, purifying and positive, and Yoga is the state of restraint as the moment decreases and travels towards the eternal emptiness. Now, whatever path we take, whether it is the path of Knowledge, Devotion, Karma, Hatha, Mantra, Tantra, Laya (Rhythm), Raj, or Meditation, or Ashtanga Yoga, Reaching the state or void state is yoga. In the Patanjali Yoga Sutra, a formulaic garland of cosmic truth is woven, meaning that yoga is the realization of actions, the attainment of truth from the various means.

From the gods and goddesses of ancient times (Pre-Vedic Period) to the sages of different periods, the Maharishis, who prepared the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Upavedas, and the philosophies (Orthodox), were all yogis. Shiva, Rama, Krishna, Janak, Buddha, Mahavira, Jesus, Ashtavakra, Kapila, Machhendranath, Gorakhanath, etc., were yogis. Did they participate in the Olympics, jump and exercise, and fly in the air without asanas, meditate without breathing norms? Why did Buddha talk about Panchsheel? The five sub-rules within the Buddha’s Panchasheel and Yoga’s Yama are Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, Natural attitudes, and Aparigraha, etc., which are the rules that the yogi must first understand and follow. Similarly, the by-laws (NIyama) of the rules are also basic and the foundation of sadhanas.

To Be Continued…….

Here is an interesting article on PROTECTION OF ALMIGHTY IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST COVID-19. Please, you may protect your almighty immune system and preserve healthy and genetic genes not only for yourself but also for future generations. You may run away from Corona today, but think about how you can avoid the more fatal virus tomorrow. If you are anxiously waiting for a vaccine to exacerbate your fears, suppose you are signing up for a ventilator one day. So be aware now and make your lifestyle regular and natural.

TIPS FOR THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST COVID-19

Today, one hand, if people are suffering from this virus, but I am not sure this is a pandemic, or epidemic, or something else. The normal fatal rate is an average of 2 % of COVID-19 where whereas the 20 % fatal rate of suicide occurs globally context of 6 months. So, the second one is more dangerous. Maybe Corona isn’t behind this fatal outcome?  Everyone should think sensitively. “Prevention is better than a Cure”. The fact is that no medications to date in the world have been developed through the latest medical science.

But there is an ultimate reality that only one power remains in this universe to fight every fatal pathogen. That is the natural Immunity System acquired by birth and creation, which has been saving 8.4 million lives in the world, and 7 billion people are living today due to this original immunity. So do something, get everything.

Source of Immune / Prana

i. Parental Prana
ii. Grain Prana
iii. Air Prana
iv. Cosmos Prana

Essential Tips  

Boost your natural immune system by changing positive lifestyle / yogic lifestyle. Don’t wait to get vaccinated, which is not a medicine. Medicine is within you, just know and use.

Yoga Saadhana: OM / Mantra chants, Purification/ Hygiene, Warm up Exercise, Yogasana, Mudras, Pranayama, Dhyana. Gain true knowledge, and do excellent karma.

Sleep in time within 10 pm after 2-3 hours of Meals and take deep & sound sleep.

Waking up between 3-6 in the morning before sunrise.

Drink enough water as needed.

Get enough air in an open place. Love the ventilation rather than the ventilator.

20-40 minutes of Solar Energy by Sun Bath.

Do 40 minutes of work or exercise or yogasana, sweat once a day, or increase your heart rate.

Breathing for 20 minutes or doing Pranayama/Kumbhaka by knowing, if possible, two times a Day.

20 minutes of straightening the back and sitting in silence or practicing any method of meditation yoga, if possible, two times a Day.

Action and Rest should be equal. So have a proper rest. Rest is itself a reserve of energy.

Chant Omkar or any other mantras, there will be no germs in that vibration, whether inside or outside.

Eat a balanced, natural, and vegetarian diet in time for the right purpose. No fast food, junk food, smokes, drugs, etc.

Cereals, Sprouts, and green vegetables used at least 9 types of spices. Eat at least one thing every day.

City dwellers should eat less dairy in the city and boycott the meat class altogether. No intake of sugar.

Drink basil, ginger, or lemon, any type of herbal tea.

Drink turmeric dissolved in evening milk or warm water.

Gargle and rinse with salt water or Tulsi tea for more than 30 seconds and minimum 4 times, at least after coming back to home and before sleep.

If you know, do Jalneti in the morning, and if you come from outside, do it in the evening.

Steam: Take a steam bath or sauna twice a week.

Whoever survives with what is available, what has become of you, and now learn to live happily with deprivation. Learn to live with what you have.

Clap, rub your palms, and wash your hands occasionally. Don’t kill your own hand tissue or skin with too much sanitizer, and have a bath daily.

Smile from time to time, smiling can increase your positive energy. It is the best prescription for stress.

Just as you were careful with a person with a common cold, you should be as careful as you are with a person who is unfamiliar with normal behavior, infected persons, and in crowds. Use Max in only crowds, in hospitals, and crowds.

Our lungs with a capacity of 2100 C.C, but 1/4 of the lung capacity is working now who live in urban life or modern life.

Live a normal and active life, not just a life of comfort, a life of happiness and joy. Although it is difficult to find happiness, we should achieve a life of happiness and joy because it is obtained from within and not bought on the market.

Make a strong willpower, have a fresh mood, and be positive.

ॐ Survey Bhavantu Sukhin! Survey Santu Niramaya! Survey Bhadrani Pashyantu, Ma Kashchid Dukh Bhag Bhavet !!

Om Shanti!

Sirsasana consists of two words, where ‘Sirsa’ means ‘the head’ and ‘asana‘ means pose. It is also commonly known as headstand, also known as Salamba Sirsasana. It is known as the ‘king’ of asana, but Aarogya (Therapeutic) point of view, sometimes it can be ‘killer’ in the technological era instead of ‘King’ because of the illness complications such as Hypertension, Heart problems, Brain problems, Excess stress, and the stage of beginners. In this yoga pose, the body is completely inverted and held up right, where the body is supported by the forearms, while the crown of the head rests lightly on the floor.

Steps to do Sirsasana

Preparatory Phase:
It is very intense postures, so we need to prepare very well.

i. Sukshma Vyayama: Fingers; wrist, elbow and shoulder exercises, Neck Exercises, Eyes exercises
ii. Pre-aasanas: Tadasana, Vajrasana, Bhringasana, Shasankasana, Dolphine Pose

Methods:

1. First of All, Lower yourself down on your knees or from Shasankasana, place your arms on the floor and interlock your fingers in such a way that the weight of your upper body is focused on your arms.
2. Then, extend your legs and lift your buttocks in the air to enter into the dolphin pose.
3. Rest your head on the interlocked finger to give it a base. Lift your heels and rest your legs entirely on your toes.
4. Now slowly bend your knees and slowly lift one of your legs off the floor.
5. Try to slowly lift your other leg by folding your knees by slightly pushing the weight of your body to your head.
6. Stretch your legs straight, maintain the balance of your body and hold the pose for half a minute to 3 minutes, and more depending upon your comfort level.
7. We can perform different variations of legs and also Ardha or padmasana as well.
8. To come out of the pose, slowly bend your knees and try placing your feet on the floor one by one and hold in Shasankasana.
9. Roll back into the sitting position Vajrasana, Ardha -Vajrasana and Tadasana and let your body relax for a minute or two in Shavasana.

Note: Counter Pose of Sirsasana is Tadasana

Benefits of Sirsasana

1. It keeps all organs free and relax.
2. Strengthens the arms, core, legs, and back.
3. Increases the blood circulation and impulsive communication.
4. Improves the immune system.
5. Due to the inverted pose, there is better circulation of blood to brain and eyes.
6. This pose highly improves the nervous system and strengthens the spine.
7. It’s the solution for insonmia, loss of concentration, loss of memory, anxiety, in beginning stages of stress and anger management.
8. Inverted pose puts pressure on pituitary and pineal glands which in turns improve its efficiency.

Sirsasana Contradictions

1. People having any form of back injury or neck injury.
2. People with blood pressure issues and heart disease.
3. Pregnant women or women who are menstruating shouldn’t practice this pose.

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We present an insightful article on the Science of one nostril breathing and pranayama. Breathing involves the movement of air in and out of the lungs through the nostrils. The activity of inhalation and exhalation is breathing. Breathing is a part of respiration. For the most part, control of the breath is automatic and involuntary. With each inhale, we bring oxygen into the body and spark the transformation of nutrients into fuel. Each exhale purges the body of carbon dioxide, a toxic waste.

Respiration involves a gas exchange between the lungs and the blood. The deriving energy from food molecules with the help of oxygen is called respiration.

Mechanism of Breathing/Respiration: As the chest muscles contract on inspiration, the diaphragm moves down, the ribs expand and oxygen moves into the lungs. On expiration, the diaphragm and chest muscles relax and carbon dioxide moves out of the body, into the atmosphere. This is called Respiration Mechanism. There are aspects of breathing that we control voluntarily and consciously via the cortex of the brain.

“PRANAYAMA PARAMA TAPAH”

ONE NOSTRIL STUFFY AT A TIME/NASAL CYCLE

Nostrils have the specialized erectile cells/ tissues. At a given time, these cells are swollen in one nostril while they are shrunk in the other. Hence, when we breathe air passes easily through the nostril in which the tissues are shrunk. Throughout the day, they each take breaks in a process of alternating congestion and decongestion called the nasal cycle. This cycle is first discovered by the German nasal specialist Richard in 1895 A.D.

However, because of this swelling very small amount of air slowly passes through the other nostril. Thus, it seems as if we are breathing through one nostril only. Around 85% of proper breathing enters through one nostril at a time. After a few hours, the swelling and shrinking in the nostril reverse. This breathing pattern is called the Nasal Cycle. It is original and natural Pranayam. Generally nasal cycle is beneficial for human beings because some odors are detected better in fast-moving air, while others in slow-moving air. Then the fast-moving odors in one nostril and the slow-moving ones in the other.  One nose can detect a greater range of smells. Besides this, our nostrils are moist. Continued breathing can make them dry. Thus, when we breathe through one nostril, the other nostril gets time to become moist again.

Every few hours, your autonomic nervous system, which takes care of your heart rate, digestion and other things what we don’t consciously control, switches things up and your other nostril does all the heavy lifting for a little while.  The opening and closing of the two passages is done by swelling and deflating erectile tissue.

One more interesting part of breath is that which nostril is more working that makes different effects on the body and mind. One of the studies in 1998, the breathing through the right nostril particularly raises the glucose levels in the blood and also another study in 1993, the significance of right nostril breathing increases more oxygen than the left one.

Another study in 1994, that breathing through the left nostril influences the right hemisphere of the brain and have vice-versa through the right nostril. When we turn laterally, one side and stay 12 to 16 minutes on one side, is swollen and increases the breath another opposite. This is very huge science as the Swara Yoga Faculty.

THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING

Autonomic Nervous System and Breathing: The autonomic nervous system (ANS) consists of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) – also known as the fight or flight system, which returns us to a relaxed resting state. The PNS is under the control of the vagus nerve. Nerve fibers from the central nervous system (CNS) go to the organs in the thorax, throat area, the heart, and the abdomen, and fibers from the organs go back into the central nervous system to convey what is going on internally. Nerve fibers send branches into the limbic system of the brain that inhibit the stress responses.

Phase of Swasa, Swasa Vyayama, Swasa Kriya, Pranayama and Uchcha Pranayama

1. Swasa (Breath) – it is observed, felt during regular swass process. It will be different forms and stages in Dhyana (Meditation) as well.
2. Swasa Vyayama (Breathing Exercise) – It is done and happened with/ throughout the Physical activities.
3. Swasa Kriya (Breathing Act) – It is done and smoothly acted by effort with awareness, but no physical exercise.
4. Pranayama ( Breath Control) – It is called Kumbhaka or it is practiced with kumbhaka throughout all four phases Puraka, Antara Kumbhaka, Rechaka & Bahira Kumbhaka
5. Uchcha Pranayama (Advanced Breath Control) – Kumbhaka is practiced with Bandhas/ Lock.

Deergha Swasa Kriya or Pranayama

Deergha Swasa Kriya / Pranayama also called Three-Part Breath, is a practice of slowing and deepening the breath. Deerga is an essential yogic breathing technique that is taught in most yoga classes along with postures. To practice this technique, slow down the breath and focus on the exhale—especially effective for increasing the relaxation benefits of the practice. There is a small amount of research suggesting that slow yogic breathing can have an important impact on vagal tone, a physiological marker of resilience and stress reduction.

Few studies have found at how this breathing technique might lower blood pressure and improve vagal tone in those with hypertension. In these studies suggest that Deergha can be a helpful tool for those with hypertension, and may also improve physiological markers of stress more generally.

Nadi Shodhana Kriya or Pranayama

Nadi Shodhana Kriya or Pranayama (Alternate-Nostril Breath) is touted for its ability to reduce stress and still the mind. This practice consists of sitting quietly and breathing into each nostril separately by plugging one nostril and breathing in the opposite nostril. The instruction is to practice going back and forth between each nostril slowly and rhythmically. The practitioner plugs the left nostril, breathes in through the right; plugs the right nostril, exhales through the left. Then he or she repeats this on the other side: Plug the right nostril; breathe in through the left, and onward.

Interestingly, as many yogis have noticed in their practice, breathing through one nostril compared to the other produces different effects on the body. For example, a study found that breathing exclusively in and out of the left nostril decreases blood pressure, whereas breathing exclusively through the right nostril increases blood pressure. This aligns with the yogic view that breathing into the left nostril activates the ida (Lunar Path), the energy channel associated with rest, and Lunar breath influences the right hemisphere of the brain. The breathing into the right nostril activates the pingala (Solar Path), the energy channel associated with activity and action, and influences the left hemisphere of the brain. Nadi Shodhana helps balance the nervous system, evening out differences in sympathetic and parasympathetic tone, and it also reduces blood pressure, promoting a greater sense of calm and relaxation. Usually there are four phases of Nadishodhana, i.e, I and II are Nadishodhana Kriya; and III and IV are Nadishodhana Pranayama.

Pranayama (Yogic breath Control) involves the voluntary control of the breath, and is practiced widely in yogasana and meditation, but is something that anyone can do. Slow Pranayama appears to shift the autonomic nervous system from the fight or flight sympathetic to the calming parasympathetic state and has been shown to positively affect immune function, hypertension, asthma, and stress-induced psychological disorders.

Historically, pranayama techniques were aimed at expanding the life-force energy, increasing the life span, and helping people access more subtle experiences—nadis, chakras increased sensitivity to the world. These outcomes are difficult to measure using our current scientific models and techniques; there may be maximum advantages that our current research cannot capture. However, scientists have begun to collect data on the more observable physical and mental benefits of various Swasa and pranayama techniques. While the research is preliminary, their findings may encourage you to get on your physical and breath work.

Bhastrika Kriya or Pranayama:

The Bellows breath, or Bhastrika, is also meant to increase energy flow. Bhastrika is practiced by breathing fully and forcefully in and out of the nose. It is done in three stages: Manda (slow), Madhyama (Medium), and Drutta (Fast). Some researchers in Colleges were curious to see how Bhastrika would impact the nervous system. The participants were instructed to practice a slow-paced bhastrika: inhaling to maximum for a count of four, then exhaling to maximum to a count of six. At this pace, participants were breathing at a rate of six breaths per minute, and they were asked to continue with this practice for five minutes.

Researchers found that Bhastrika produced a significant decrease in blood pressure and a slight decrease in heart rate. The researchers concluded that “slow-paced Bhastrika Pranayama (respiratory rate 6/min) exercise shows a strong tendency of improving or balancing the autonomic nervous system through enhanced activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, and thus can be practiced for mental relaxation and reduction of stress in daily life.” Bhastrika can also increase heat energy, release tension in the abdomen, activate all the organs in the Abdominal and pelvic cavity, control the fat accumulation, help loosen congestion, and decongest the lymph and purify the blood. 

Medical Merits of Pranayama

Several studies show the therapeutic merits of Pranayama. One study showed improvement in pulmonary function tests in patients with asthma and emphysema after practicing yogasana and Pranayama for 40 minutes a day over two months. Several studies have supported Bhastrika Pranayama in enhancing “parasympathetic tone.” The study showed the benefits of Alternate Nostril (Anuloma-Viloma Kriya), Nadi shodhan Kriya, or Pranayama in increasing parasympathetic tone by measuring heart rate variability and expiration-inhalation ratios. A pilot study with chemotherapy patients showed improvement in mood and sleep after Pranayama, and numerous other studies support the benefits of Pranayama in Insomnia, depression, and anxiety.

Conclusion

Pranayama is loosely translated as prana or breath control. The ancient yogis developed many breathing techniques to maximize the benefits of prana. Pranayama is used in yoga as a separate practice to help clear and cleanse the body and mind. It also affects our state of mind. In the yogic tradition, air is the primary source of prana or life force, a psycho-physio-spiritual force that permeates the universe. It is also used in asana, the practice of postures, to help maximize the benefits of the practice, and focus the mind, and in preparation for meditation.

OM SHANTIH! SHANTIH! SHANTIH!

What is Langhanam or Upavāsa (FASTING)? Pancha mahabhoota( Five Elements ) – Aakasha, Vaayu, Agni, Jala, and Prithivi build the human body. The ether element is the first element to appear in this universe, which is the most effective, pervasive, and universal. It is a formless, invisible, and subtle element. Ether element has a vital role in all aspects of health and disease management. Upavaasa (Fasting) is one of the means applied in ether element.

Meaning

Laṅghanam (लङ्घनम्) or Laṅghana (लङ्घन) or Upavāsa (उपवास) refers to “fasting practice & therapy”, and is dealt with in the 17th-century Vaidyavallabha (chapter 1) written by Hastiruci.

Fasting in Sanskrit is called Upavāsa = upa means “near” + vāsa means “to stay”. Upavaasa, therefore, means staying near (the Lord/ Nature), meaning the attainment of close mental proximity with Nature.

Definition

Fasting is the willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food, drink, or intake of excess things, for a period. “लंघनं परम् औषधं” “Langhanam param aushadham” ancient Sanskrit saying that means “fasting is the supreme medicine”.

According to Sanatan philosophy, food means satisfaction of the sense organs, and to starve the senses means to elevate them to contemplation. Fasting in Sanatan, is a method to attain control over one’s desires and senses for the sake of spiritual gain. Doing it for a cause has always strengthened people’s minds to attain their goals.

Fasting in Eastern Philosophy indicates the denial of the physical needs of the body for the sake of spiritual gains. According to the scriptures, fasting helps create an attunement with the Absolute by establishing a harmonious relationship between the body and the soul. This is thought to be imperative for the well being of a human being as it nourishes both his/her physical and spiritual demands.

Merits of Langhanam (Fasting)

1. Modifies the function of cells genes, hormones and immunity power rapidly increases.
2. Mental acuity: Research and empirical evidence has shown that being in a fasted state can improve cognitive function. The digestive system gets complete rest.
3. Build and maintain a healthy gut: Removing food for a period of time gives the gut a break from digesting and assimilating nutrients and can benefit the micro biome.
4. Beneficial for brain and the mental power is enhanced.
5. Lower stress load and inflammation: Fasting has been shown to lower inflammation by reducing oxidative stress and has also been demonstrated to lower insulin resistance.
6. Extend lifespan, help live longer.
7. Helps to lose weight, belly fat, fat begins to take place and fat is completely used up.
8. Lower the risk of Diabetes by enhancing the catabolism of blood sugar.

If we want our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, we should practice 5 Langhanams (Upavaasa) which are for spiritual power exploration. Our ancients used one very simple principle is called langhanam “paramaushadam-supreme Medicine” Upavaasa (Fasting) is the ultimate medicines.

First langhanam/Upavaasa

The first upavaasa (Langhanam) is Anna Upavaasa (Fasting food) – our ancients didn’t use the human body as an eating machine, funnily, so many people lonely are engaging in nonstop eating. The kind of eating will only make you sicker and is going to make you more prone to infections. We should eat when we are hungry and only when our digestive fire burns and asks for it, but not when our tongue asks. That will also give some break to whoever is cooking at home. We start eating only when our breath is flowing strongly through our right nostril, which makes the food digest what we are eating most effectively. When the breath is flowing through our right nostril breath of the solar energy flow, then we can practice any kind of fasting.

We can practice intermittent fast, water or soup or Juice or fruit fasting. Remember even animals fast when they are sick or want to heal ourselves. They always try to live with nature. Langhanam can also be eating right way in right time. All immunoglobulin which are antibodies to fight diseases are all proteins and cellular atmosphere. Eating right will mean taking the right amount of protein into our diet to enhance immunity in the body.

Second Upavaasa

The second Upavaasa (langhanam) is Svasa Upavaasa (fasting breath). Breath is the indicator of the quality of life, lifespan, and also nature of consciousness. Just as the more heat an engine produces, the faster it burns out. Every cell is like an engine that is being powered by the intake of breath. The ancient yogis practiced fasting of breath, they deliberately did slow inhalations and extremely long exhalations with breath pauses. When we practice breath fasting, we will age slowly our thoughts begin to become more positive. You can more easily break away from negative thinking, release the tension, unnecessary pressure, and release over fatigue, and suffer.  

Third Upavaasa

The third Upavaasa (langhanam) is Vachan (Speech) fasting, which is hurtful and pessimistic speech. Very few people have Vaak Shakti or the power of speech to manifest their goals. The more consciously we speak true words and cause joy to others in a very pleasing tone, our vaak shakti grows. Mauna (Speechless) and true speech are the calming process of the mind and reduce the firing in the mind. It helps to regenerate the energy and to rejuvenate the body and mind.

Fourth Upavaasa

The fourth Upavaasa (langhanam) is stillness / Asana fasting movements. It is not about living on our couch, eating popcorn, and watching TV. Fasting movement means sitting still, making more steadier, either observing our breath, listening to the sound of nature, hearing your entire sounds, or with the name of our divine being inwardly. Still, even if we can sit still for a minute at a time. It will bring down the restlessness in our body and mind. It helps us concentrate in the mind and become more still in meditation. Asana is the first step for Dhyana (Meditation).

Fifth Upavaasa

The fifth Upavaasa (langhanam) is thoughts fasting. Every second we have 24 to 40 thoughts firing in our mind. Much more thoughts can tense our brain and generates the tension and intense in stress more and more.

What is thought?

Thought can refer to the ideas or arrangements of ideas that result from either intrinsic (arising from within) or extrinsic (arising from the environment) reactions. A thought may be an idea, an image, a sound, or even an emotional feeling that arises from the brain. Thoughts are covert symbolic responses to stimuli that are considered to mediate between inner activity and external stimuli.

“Yogashchittavrittinirodhah”, P.Y.D 1.2 that means the cessation of modified thoughts in chitta is yoga. Thought fast reduces the number of thoughts and stilling and calming the mind that creates the state of the devoid is known as meditation. During the fasting, we should be in the present moment, not with the past and not with the future.

To Sum up

Langhanam or fasting is a superpower. We try this 5 langhanams / Upavaasa practice, and we will get and feel great power in our body, our mind, and consciousness. This upavasa practice and therapy is as old as the human race itself, which was mentioned in the Vedas, the Bible, and the Kuran.

Naturally, kids are born to learn from their environment. Kids are a form of God as pure as a lotus. Kids are like a sponge that absorbs everything around them so quickly. They normally do what adults do by copying them in different ways. Yoga is important for kids for many purposes in their lives. It is important for adults as well. Learn reasons to involve your Kids in Yoga Practice.

Children’s age is the best time for the initiation of yoga learning and practice. An Upa-nayan rite is the initiation of yogic life by offering the Gayatri Mantra, which enriches their true knowledge by reciting regularly. The means of Yoga helps kids to relax, relieve stress and anxiety, sleep better, improve emotional regulation, increase empathy, and improve mood and moral ethics.

‘Om Bhūr-Bhuvaḥ Svaḥ Tat-Savitur-Varēṇyaṁ; Bhargō Dēvasya Dhīmahi Dhiyō Yō Naḥ Prachōdayāt.!  (Rigveda 3.62.10)

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं; भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि, धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

Reasons to Involve Your Kids in Yoga Practice

1. Awareness and Self-Esteem

Yoga brings a lot of change in the physical and mental state of the person. So as its makes every functioning of the body more and more aware, those person who does yoga are more stress free and normally there every action are more focused and very sharp. If yoga is taught to the children, since children natural behavior is very naughty and restlessness, they seem to try fun in every work they do.

So normally they are not aware of their action. But yoga teaches them to balance their body and mind coordination and enhance their moral discipline. Hence, they try to become more aware of their action. Yoga also helps to cultivate increased self-esteem, self-confidence, and empathy within kids, which translates to more positive relationships with others by reflecting their positive attitude toward themselves onto others.

2. Yoga Improves Social Relationships

Yoga is typically regarded as an individual activity. While that is partially true, there is a social component to yoga, especially called Yama such as Ahimsa, Asteya, etc. We go to yoga classes with other people and take part in the yoga community where we can share our experiences with others.

For kids, the entire yoga practice is a social one. Yoga for kids typically includes songs, mantras, yogic games, Mudras, and other fun activities that get kids moving together and learning from one another, particularly with partner yoga poses. This creates a positive, engaging environment in which kids can have fun, feel pleasure, talk to one another, and learn to trust and respect one another.

3. Determination and Concentration Development

Yoga is a combination of concentrating on your breath, energy, attention, and limiting your thoughts. With children’s receptive nature, they will learn the art of concentrating on their breathing and focusing attention within no time. The skills, will, and interest, overall, impact their concentration levels.

Kids who practice yoga with different means like postures, pranayama, and meditation regularly find it easy to stay focused and concentrate for a more extended period. Their attention span is boosted, and their ability to grasp more is increased. If you want your kids to have an improved concentration span, at this epoch when it is hard to maintain concentration, tag kids in yoga practice.

4. Flexibility and coordination

Since Yoga also consists of physical activities, yoga is not only the yogasanas, it is more about flexibility, strength, and posture help enhance flexibility and coordination. Yoga Asanas builds the strength and flexibility of your child in an instant. For example, Malasana (Squat Asana) is a challenge – a pose that resembles sitting on an imaginary chair on the floor with your hands behind your legs, builds balance, strength, and flexibility.

Tagging your kids along for yoga practices enhances their body flexibility. Children who have a flexible body are healthy, confident, and strong. A flexible body results in better posture. The benefits accruing from having a better posture among children are numerous.

5. Yoga Improves Sleep

Getting the body moving before bedtime is an excellent way to improve sleep. When we are stressed or overwhelmed, our bodies are tense and our minds are full, reducing our ability to sleep well. This is also true for kids.

We tend to think that kids “have it easy” and that they don’t feel stressed, but this simply isn’t true. Kids aren’t stressed about finances or getting to work on time, but they are stressed out by their schoolwork and peer relationships. The physical practice of yoga also helps to relieve tension and release negative emotions held physically in the body, helping them to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.

6. Yoga Improves Strength and Breath Control

Especially Yogasana in Yoga takes some strength, both mentally and physically. When practiced regularly, we notice many physical, emotional, and cognitive changes within ourselves, particularly increased flexibility, upper body strength, enhanced vitality, and mental clarity. All of this newfound strength has much to do with the breath.

When we breathe harshly or quickly, we increase muscle tension, reduce focus, and heighten our fight-or-flight response, all of which have detrimental effects on our minds and bodies. Teaching proper breathing techniques, and building physical and mental strength from a young age, helps to reduce the chances of obesity, depression, and depressive symptoms, as well as increases self-esteem, self-confidence, and improves overall wellbeing.

7. Physical and mental stress

Yoga provides an avenue through which children can deal with physical and psychological stress. Due to the changing nature of children’s bodies, stress due to physical changes is bound to occur. When the stage comes, most parents are lost for ideas on what to do. If your child’s stress is on writing, the best writing help is available. Yoga is the solution as it introduces children to a nurturing and loving community that encourages self-acceptance. This helps children to discover their strengths and shortcomings.

As yoga’s core values are self-acceptance, your kids will find both physical and emotional stability. Additionally, health symptoms caused by anxiety and stress can be cured by yoga. As kids, these health symptoms are regular and frequent. A child with previous experience in yoga practice will have a better way of dealing with stress and anxiety as an adult, despite the child’s age.

8. Calmness in children

The manner of execution of yoga poses requires a great deal of enthusiasm, determination, and focus. The result is that a sense of clarity is achieved at the end that leaves your children’s body with calmness. Yoga teaches kids to relax. Unlike other sporting activities that have competitions, yoga is a non-competitive activity. Your child will be at peace and relaxed, knowing that it isn’t a competition.

Furthermore, the focus on breathing in and out results in relaxation. When a person is tired, they breathe in and out to relax their muscles, which also happens in yoga. As your child poses to breathe in and meditate, there is a general feeling of clarity.

9. Yoga Improves Independence and Coping Skills

As mentioned above, yoga is both a social and individual activity. One of the benefits of practicing an activity that is both individual and social is that it helps kids to recognize what “individual” and “social” mean.

Kids rarely do things on their own. After all, they are kids! It’s up to us adults to make the most of the decisions for them. However, it is still important that they learn how to do things on their own. Practicing yoga is a great way to introduce independence to your kids because their practice, and what they get out of their practice, is theirs and only theirs. By increasing independence in practice, we are also helping kids to develop their coping skills.

To Sum Up

All of these benefits make it clear that yoga is an important tool in our children’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. It offers optimum health, happiness, and harmony. Practicing yoga is something we do for ourselves, as adults, to help us unwind and reduce both physical and mental stress. Yogic practices make them focus and free of minds as well.

Nepal is one of such unique countries with the beauty of culture and nature, where festivals are celebrated with joy and in a very vibrant way. Being a multi-ethnic nation, Nepal celebrates each festival uniquely. One festival can be celebrated with a different essence by different ethnic groups. In Nepal, there are many small and big festivals celebrated in each month. More about the Teej Festival.

Teej festival is the biggest Hindu festival of Nepalese women, generally falling in August or early September, which is celebrated all over Nepal. Mainly, the festival is dedicated to Goddess Parvati, the wife of Lord Shiva. During this Teej festival in Nepal, married women take Vrata (religious fast) for the long and healthy life of their husbands and family as well as pray for health and prosperity. On the same occasion, unmarried girls take Vrata to get a nice husband in the future. Both Married and unmarried women celebrate Teej with joy, love, and dedication. During the festival, women are dressed in red Sarees with gold ornaments as much as possible.

WHAT IS TEEJ AND ITS ORIGIN?

The name of this festival, “Teej,” is believed to have come from a small red insect, which only appears on the earth at the end of the monsoon season around August. So, this festival is named after that particular insect, “Teej.” Occurring around August, the Teej festival is celebrated by women all over Nepal for three days. Wearing the red sarees and red tika, bangles, they sing and dance to traditional folk songs for days. It is especially significant for married women when they get a special invitation to visit their birth town/ maternal home and feasts.

Having a long feast also known as Dar in dinner and supper, they sit for a 24 hour long Vrata / fasting, where most do not eat or even drink water. What is fascinating is to watch women of all age group, young and old, dance for hours in the heat, rain, traditionally without a drop of water or food for an entire day.

REASON BEHIND TEEJ FESTIVAL CELEBRATION

Teej festival is dedicated to the Goddess Parvati, marking her union with Lord Shiva. Teej is celebrated for the well-being of the husband, children, and the whole family as well. Nowadays, they celebrate this festival as a way to be united and have fun while praying for the well-being of the husband and all members of the family. It has also become a way to bring women together from different classes and celebrate the festival as one. The celebration of Teej implies the ultimate sacrifice a woman makes for her husband’s health, prosperity, and longevity.  

HOW TO CELEBRATE TEEJ

In Nepal, Teej is a three-day festival. However, Teej is celebrated in different ways in different regions of Nepal. This festival is celebrated for a total of three days that combine the feast as well as rigid fasting, culturally without drinking a drop of water. Teej is celebrated all across the world by Nepali Hindu women. It gives fun, mental relaxation, full of entertainment, cultural pleasure, and family harmony. Teej is a vibrant and pleasant festival that has become more popular since its start. However, in recent years, this festival has influenced many Nepali women residing all over the world. Women in red attire sing and dance in the street, going to the temple in a holy and even at home in a fasting mood and strength. Usually, women get called by their parents or brothers, where they celebrate Teej with the rest of the family members and siblings.

HARITALIKA TEEJ

The word “Haritalika” is comprised of two words, “harit” and “aalika”; “harit” means “abduction” and “aalika” means “female friend.” Haritalika Teej is celebrated as a remembrance of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva. As per the story, Goddess Parvati’s father made a promise to marry her to Lord Vishnu against her wish. But she didn’t like it and she told this to her friend, and she took Parvati to a thick forest where Parvati’s father couldn’t get her. Goddess Parvati prayed to Lord Shiva by making a Shiva lingam from her hair. Impressed by her devotion towards him, Lord Shiva married Parvati and since then, the day is referred to as Haritalika Teej as Goddess Parvati’s friend (aalika) abducted (harit) her so she could achieve her goal of marrying Lord Shiva. So, Teej is celebrated in Nepal as Haritalika Teej.

Lord Shiva-Goddess Parvati Unification

In Hindu mythology, it is believed that Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva were united on this day. For this, Parvati had to endure penance. It is said that she took 108 births on Earth before Lord Shiva accepted her as his wife. Since then, this day is considered to be an auspicious day, and it is believed that whoever remembers her on this day will be blessed with a happy married life and all her desires will be fulfilled.

One special aspect of Teej celebrations is the ‘Teej Katha’ that includes the stories of the legends associated with the festival. In the evening, the women gather to hear the narration of this Katha and pray for the good health of their husbands and husbands-to-be and a blissful married life. Teej Puja begins with the offerings of flowers and fruits to the goddess. The food delicacies such as Ghevar, Dal Bati Churma, Besan Laddu, Kaju Katli, and Sattu form an indispensable part of Teej celebrations.

Significance of Teej Festival in Nepal

Teej is a great festival for Hindu Women who celebrate the long-lasting life of their Husband. It is also a monsoon festival celebrated for the union of lord Shiva (a Hindu God known as destruction, consciousness, and creation) and Parvati (the Hindu Goddess is known as Devi Shakti, will, action, and knowledge).

The significance of such a festival is for women to ask for special blessings by Lord Shiva, to have attain a good husband in life, and to pray for his longevity and prosperity.

On the final day of this three day festival Women satisfy seven saints offering them food, money and various offerings, and also bathing with Red mud and brushing their teeth with Datiwan (branches of a bush tree) hoping this purifies their body and soul.

It is a sight to behold at the Pashupatinath temple, where thousands of women draped in Red and green throng the premises of the temple. Observers can take photos of these women dancing merrily, where sometimes foreigners, especially women tourists are requested to participate in the merry-making.

This festival is a symbol of dedication of goddess Parvati for Lord Shiva. Even today, women commemorate this mythological event by keep a ‘Nirjara Vrat’ for their husband’s well being and long life. This festival also helps in strengthening the bond between couples. This festival also welcomes the advent of Monsoon season.

Teej in Pashupatinath Temple

Pashupatinath is a famous Hindu Temple and also an important religious site for Hindus, and is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is believed that Shiva (a Hindu God) is the most powerful deity, known as the God of Gods, also named as the one who has the power of creation and destruction. According to Hindu Mythology, Pashupati is the incarnation of Lord Shiva as the animal.

As Teej is all about Mahadev Shiva and Devi Parvati, people visit Pashupatinath Temple to worship Lord Shiva and to pray for the happiness and health of the family. More than 500,000 Nepali women visit Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival. People from different parts of the Indian subcontinent come to visit Pashupatinath to appease Lord Shiva.

The human body is composed of Pancha kosha (five sheaths), the 5 body layers, i.e, Annamaya Kosha (Physical or food Sheath), Pranamaya Kosha (Vital Sheath), Manomaya Kosha (Mental Sheath), Vijnanamaya Kosha (Wisdom Sheath), and Anandamaya Kosha (Blissful Sheath). The first sheath is called the food or physical sheath, the foundation of life. “Anna Brahma” means that food is divine. Food is nectar, but sometimes it becomes poison and produces poison as well. Food also detoxifies the body & mind. Similarly, we get toxic forms on each sheaths mentioned above, like vital mental, wisdom sheaths. More about Tips for Mental Detox.

Many of us love eating good foods as fancy as the preparation, may look as delicious as they may be. They get digested once they enter into our system and the body needs to throw the unwanted waste out in a day failing which can cause illness. There is nothing in the world that can quench our thirst more and make us feel more refreshed than water. Yet if the body doesn’t throw that water out in a couple of hours that retained water can be the cause of illness.

Noise-induced hearing loss not only affects hearing, but it could also affect the brain’s ability to recognize speech. Prolonged exposure to loud noise alters how the brain processes speech, potentially increasing the difficulty in distinguishing speech sounds, according to neuroscientists. Exposure to intensely loud sounds leads to permanent damage to the hair cells, which act as sound receivers in the ear. Once damaged, the hair cells do not grow back, leading to noise-induced hearing loss.

Once I saw a very elderly yoga teacher teaching her yoga students breathing techniques. She asked them to breathe in and hold their breath. But elderly as she was, she happened to fall asleep. The students who respected her a lot were unable to hold their breaths any longer, but didn’t even want to disobey her.  Finally, as they were gasping, one of them walked up to her and woke her up. As she got up, she said-“and now breathes out”. As funny as this may sound, the air we breathe in can be held for no more than a few minutes, and if it is not thrown out, we may die.

Isn’t this principle true for our negative emotions as well? Emotional hurt, envy, jealousy, greed, feelings of hatred, revenge, and anger can make our minds toxic. Yet we continue to hold them in our system, only leading to so many psychological, biological, and consequently physical disorders. The body has a system to remove unwanted food, water, air, and chemicals without us even being aware of it. How we wish there were an automatic arrangement that could throw negative feelings and emotions out as well. But that’s not how it works with the mind. We have to consciously work on detoxifying these toxic emotions out of our inner systems.

Tips for Mental Detox

1. Write your feeling down on a paper and discard it. You may tear the paper into many pieces and burn it into ashes, this practice does not necessarily solve this problem but allows us to express ourselves and release the negative energy at least temporarily.
2. Express actively your emotional feelings, angers, and stressors with physical exercises under dynamic techniques for Meditation.
3. Open your heart and confide into someone close and trustworthy. Sharing our feelings cannot out lighten the heaviness. We feel but we may also receive support and guidance to deal with our negativity.
4. Generalize all the issues and simplify them. Do not make big issues; always try to resolve these cases.
5. It’s not bad to be busy but bad to make crazy, in terms of this, try to have easy.
6. Always try to live easily and happily with scarcity and something else you have or do not have.
7. Attempt the speechless (Maunavrtta) once a month, stilling and calming the mind by meditation.
8. Sound Healing and meditation (Dwani Patro) will purify and calm the mind and enhance mental power.
9. Adopting a spiritual practice: The most powerful of course is adopting spiritual practice which can help us cleanse our consciousness and give us the inner strength to fight tendencies. Always remember that it is not the glass of water which is only a couple of grams in weight that hurts our mind, it is the duration for which we hold it. The better it is for us.

Conclusion

Attempting all the applied kriyas and understanding can detoxify our mind and also enhance our energy that keeps our mind fresher, natural and updates. Silence and calmness are the major means for mental detox.

OM SHANTIH! SHANTIH! SHANTIH!