PRANAYAMA the breath exercises

     Pranayama the breathing exercises are a remote part of yoga,reached and successfully developed only after considerable time of practising yoga the physical exercises,good condition of which is necessary to move well into pranayama.Without having good rooting in yoga(its physical exercises part)you most likely wont be able to develop pranayama upon a large scale and/or with significant results.At least this rule was very much active for myself as i never had ANY interest to pranayama in my earliest yoga aquantance situations,while developing a very serious interest in such breath control techniques with time AFTER my yoga practise had become serious at last.I came to believe that yoga is like the lower levels of the multi levelled building of the indian physical exercising building,and the access to its upper floors(pranayama)isnt possible but through the lower ones(yoga physical exercises),through which you gain access to the entire building at the very start of knowing it,only then and very gradually moving towards the ''skyscrapper of yoga'' upper levels.It definitely had been this way for my own self.However,pranayama this exercising of the breath itself with time will become more important and influential for you than the rest of yoga,SUCH an importance does it have.Yet large interest in pranayama most likely will not be with you without previous to this serious and extensive aquiantance with yoga.This probably reminds aquaintance with a mountain,which you first see only as a small dot upon the horizon;then,as you further approach it,you see it with trees and slopes and so on.So as to start seeing more important details of that mountain you first need to come closer to it physically.Those mountain details(inner yoga part disciplines)ONLY accessible after a long developement of the entire mountain theme.And indeed,breathing is an excessively simple physical exercise 1 HAS to do each minute of his life no matter what,and so training it is to become more important for you with time anyway,as yoga is nothing but practising and improving of your body,and breathing is the very essence of the body's activity in general and 1 that is the MOST basic of all the processes inside of the human body organism.The fact that we contemporary humans approach this ''mountain'' of personal health only from outside and only after a long way towards it(most of humans never do the approach AT ALL though)shows us that in reality the entire system of physical health and activities has become much of a foreighn and irrelevant affair we already NEED to go long towards,unlike what it was once as we were holding the form of our long gone predecessors the long time gone' physical systems and beings like dinosaurs,animals etc,for which this very physical condition and the body's well being WAS indeed THE thing they lived for with no mental/intellectual activities even close as THE main occupations,and we ARE currently in this modern way of exactly this modern life's approach towards intellectual as THE main thing around and physical as the irrelevant and useless 1 instead.As you do yoga exercises only sometimes,breathing is always present,and so its perfected practising is even more important than more complicated and less accessible physical exercises yoga is generally showed dealing with.More,for my own self currently breathing exercises(pranayama and alike)are already holding a LARGER importance than yoga the physical exercises do;and i think it is the nature of the physical body path to first grow in size gradually and only THEN overtake the leading role inside of ALL the human activities from the mental and intellectual things.The way those older sciences of our physical developement came to us is just the most general scheme,the map,developing which one finally passes what the predecessors achieved once only after a sizeable practise,if wishing to find success and work over the theme.This is why none nowadays realizes the amount of things the establishers of the map or science once had,the maps that ARE available showing the main path only,not entering any of the detailed levels the building of yoga DOES possess inside of itself.I assume that whichever such details are all of them must be personally developed and found by the engaged people themselves;and that the paths through this pretty much wild nowadays forest of internal affairs and perfections are pretty numerous with yourself chosing THE 1 you prefer to follow;the largest population of human beings left to themselves and their OWN life theories and you choosing THE path you like the most of this physical world volume of events.In most people the heart muscle(it is the central muscle inside the body)is a very weak thing that needs not practising but support in the form of different chemical pills and exercising it can be even dangerous,which is the reason pranayama is almost never dwelt upon in yoga exercises books and practising other yoga exercises is less dangerous a thing anyway.As you do additionally work out your heart though it becomes just the thing other bodily muscles are after some considerable training in exercises and we all know just how large arms' muscles can be for some athletes;and this would be exactly the size and seriously increased form/quality of your heart muscle as well;but muscles of the arms arent even closely AS influential to one's life and existance as the main part of the entire system of muscles the heart itself its centre is.As you do yoga poses you can threaten your health simply LESS strongly than as when you develop breathing techniques and this is 1 of the reasons why pranayama is a less than yoga developed science even as more important a health branch breathing exercises are naturally left LESS shed any light upon because of this fact.We always start the aquaintance with any given subject in life with browsing its smaller details,only later/with time flowing on and on finally moving on towards THE more and more influential/strong subjects to get aquainted with.The centre and the MAIN part of each science remaining closed and still unknown to us;just THAT way do we start to know any individual-by his miserly details like the manner of speech etc,never knowing TILL KNOWING the guy too well HIS REAL SECRETS;and also in this way pranayama(which is known well only after a while of yogic perfdection normally)is easily proven as THE more central thing to achieve only after some yogic perfection has already been achieved by us.This is why pranayama is almost never well shed light upon as its good use and perfection are only coming after some yogic exercises prerfection while what it does to the organism is even more important as bodily postures each influence a particular organ only,while pranayama influences the entire system of them by gradually strengthening this principally important to the system thing,which the heartmuscle absolutely IS.And with time flowing your heart will remind a lot the muscles of athletes,their very same incredible BOTH size and functional capacities increase following suit.In this world,where heart conditions are proven killer of human beings number 1(claim of the contemporary medicine)the thing discussed here is TOO impressive a subject to never discuss it;and we never do discuss it,afraid that the discussion itself will injure our fragile brains in a way.How about THIS idea for a change:''This brain is a bit TOO sensitive and weirdly freely behaving in its own feeding in ways,known only to its own self,ones none really needs existing around''?Wont taking a little from its immense priviledges increase the life chanses of the entire organism ALL too impressively instead?The work blood normally does is dealing with average cells to keep them in nice condition.This heart muscle is normally taking off useless wasted components of life ,which an average cell produces and adding to it new and unavoidable ones like oxygen and other sorts of feeding and in this way blood's work is more important to the entire system than a single organ like a kidney or the liver does.However yoga is definitely dealing with improvement of bodily parts' condition,of which the heart is one of the most important ones.The system of exercises is very wisely managed in that way as to impart us with mostly things,most necessary for use,that would be the start of the main road through the deep forest,simply and generally called yoga.But as you become acquainted with each at first wild a forest with time you start to discern different parts it contains inside of it.And just as through a deep forest(yoga IS one with too many pieces to describe all in a single book and the classical yoga books authors were attempting to be concise,this was the golden rule in those days of both no much interest in yoga and unability to describe/read larger texts,which all exist nowadays),there are many roads through this forest,known to us as yoga,which then break down into separate smaller paths,not just a single road,so also this land,very shortly described to us in books about it as yoga,leaving the rest to our own management and additional imagination,which can reach much deeper levels of perfection over yoga with time passing.Just as it is with most every life subject,detailed knowledge in/of yoga is kept inside the limited group of individuals,exclusively good in it,others ignorant of it and wishing no more.Which never means that others are not to know about the positive effects,just why all the texts about yoga DO exist,even as they are no more that one tenth of the complete data,available from masters in any particular subject,the masters of that particular large forest they are good in.The system is created not as a nonchangeable thing to be only strictly followed,because many hard line type followers want us to believe in this and attempt to lead us to that end too,but as a comparatively free playground for somewhat free and only best results orientated playing with breath functions in yoga in particular,intended into improving the breathing organs system,limits over which we may never cross well mentioned, with possibilities for improvement of internal organs' condition along the way,just the way we may use additional paths along the main road in the forest we travel through because those who were pioneers in this wild then forest of internal bodily condition once may still NOT be knowing ALL the interesting possibilities the forest(playing with pranayama in this case)can offer to a human.Estimations of just HOW many times do we inhale and after that exhale per 1 particular day show that this amount is close to 24000.More,scientific studies also show that both of the nostrils we have constantly replace each other with blockage of each nostril leaving this nostril and getting trasnsferred into the other 1 each 2.5 hours or so.What to speak of the fact that the forest itself is well into another entity lately,being,just like most every other forest nowadays,much less wild and much more organized instead,just like what was a forest of wild grocery once is 10 % of it nowadays with too many spots in it,well or completely civilized with roads,spots for games or rest etc.My own experience with yoga(pranayama is nothing but it's subsidiary science about breathing)tells me that possible variations of paths through this still pretty wild and hardly developed forest are pretty much endless,descriptions of paths through it being very general,just to give us the main picture of ways we might wanna develop in detail providing we DO have a desire for this activity and for the most part the society never does wanna go deep into this wild forest,preferring instead the forest of vague external disciplines,completely detached from the reality of this life like geometry or chemistry,unless that they keep the brain in active condition of searching for the items there.This society we live in either has no idea which gems of practical use can be found inside the old system,known popularly as yoga,or else is not interested in finding those by us normal humans,who want to pursue their own interests as opposed to the interests this human community around us holds,and lets face it,the interests of a specific individual are always somewhat different from those of the main congregation.Society always has in mind its own,common for all the humans,interests,and let's face it,the interests of a separate individual are always somewhat different,and often much so.Or why else do so many crimes and destructive processes exist in this society?Because its pieces particular individuals LACK stuff they feel as HOME SWEET HOME,the resulting uncomfortability showing itself in those crimes.Good health condition and the resulting mastery of things physical is another form of this HOME SWEET HOME thing often.55I am positive that many human beings would choose yoga(or other activities to the same effect)over crimes in forms in case they felt it as a refuge from the world that improves life in it at least for a bit they spend in it,the cruelty and incompatability of this world IS the real commiter of crimes this world has around.The repetition of what others do(THE remidy of this society to hard life situations)can only work well till the individual is well doing and situated in life stably,after which it is his job to start searching in the directions he is interested in for additional profits to aquire.What yoga does with our internal organs' physical condition is about exactly what pranayama does with our first heart and then mentality,even more basic things that regulate the existence of any human being-practising those organs with their final increase in size(and i mean mental activities increase along with the physical ones,because in case you perform yogic exercises correctly with pleasure,derived from them,your brain will learn to 'eat' this food for itself the yoga practising,with time already requiring less and less of other forms of feeding like TV watching or public chatting around),higher functional abilities.This is why yoga practitioners are cool or completely indiffereent to TV and other ways of feeding the brain,because those are nothing else but that-ways of feeding the brain with what it requires for normal life,and sportsmen already DO have such feeding they manage to derive from their sporting.A pranayama practitioner is in the group of population,least susceptible to heart attacks and other circulatory diseases/conditions,and conditions of the circulatory system ARE killer of humans number one nowadays,science is definite here.What humans DO lack normally to practise yoga or similar things is the comfort and let us say 'feeling at home at last' that good practitioners of those can derive from them.They suppose that yoga is just another workout that is somewhat hard to perform,and after thinking this loose all the interest in pursuing it.This fact of pacifying the mind alone,a thing yoga yes can achieve,with heart stuff being killer number one of humans,tells us how important pranayama is.It is much better to chose pranayama over complicated cell phone activities that tend to take over the attention of people that need to manage its correct position during the time they aren't sufficiently busy otherwise.For example while riding in a bus better chose doing it instead of cell phone activity,the final result being better.When wishing to curb and decrease my mental activities,which does happen on a regular basis for a human while completely unaddressed in this society we belong to,I start doing pranayama and find my mind pacified very significantly with fall of its activities amazingly serious and approaching the condition of a wintertime sleeping polar bear.Lets take a look at what exactly is happening in your body as you do pranayama.When you close your nose's breathing passages you experience sudden deprivation of oxygen by the brain.This no air getting into your brain,oxygen being the foremost need a brain has,then results in your mind premeditatingly working suddenly much less,down to like a fifth of its work normally i would guess(this effect will find you only after like 5 full minutes in pranayama though,not right on),because the brain can ONLY work well if it gets enough oxygen this food number one every scientist agrees oxygen IS to us humans.This sudden 'closing down' of the brain that automatically follows oxygen deprivation(closing the nostrils),is completely unavoidable and practically brings you sudden loss of all the brain thinking capacities.Brain then keeps still like a candle in a windless place,not wavering and partly asleep,partly awake.While yes awake and feeling all things well,you will find yourself so slow that practically not reacting upon external effects awaiting you.This effect is the root behind THE practical importance one might get from pranayama in normal street type life,where it can be imperative to further life success to suddenly and radically decrease the mind activities one has once he prefers to diminish those.Situations where mind activities are of no use at all and are better abandoned altogether DO happen and to wield such a weapon in your hands as the brain's sudden loss of actions of any sort IS a serious card you can play in the contemporary life game.To be able to sometimes yield this weapon of sudden loss of mental capacities is a thing one might never regret later,a highly recommendable tool to possess.Complications,connected with wrong management of unused mentality or injured one that very commonly use to lead a human into the self destructive behaviour like first watching TV,then taking antidepressants,then crime in case it didnt work(the less homelike you feel the more of the ensuing complications),then terrorism the hardest fall of all those etc,can all be addressed very successfully by yoga and especially fast and radically by its subsidiary pranayama.People are not enough educated to know about those ways out of a hard life situation,even as they DO exist,along with hard life situations themselves,and such things are able to inflict especially hard blows upon a human being.Those unwanted complications with our mind that needs occupations all the time(and it always does),are mostly dealt with by people in the way of smoking,which increases mental activity without falling into the trap of complicated computer like work,can also be avoided by doing pranayama,which not only(exactly what smoking does)makes the face sufficiently busy as the activity of fingers and the face are matching the smoking one,but also decreases levels of oxygen(what smoking etc cannot manage to give us)the brain does operate with and needs as a definite necessity and in this way activity of the brain is doomed to fall to I would estimate as a tenth part after long pranayama use(I use to do pranayama as the end of such things often)of what it averagely does during a day.This lighter stabilized mentality that looks from aside as a half sleeping condition is destined to be achieved after some minutes of skillful practise and beginners are simply not in that condition yet,falling into a peaceful dream like state,existing in both brain and body,with resulting relief of complicated stuff activities to the brain.This condition is though very much cognitive(completely controlled from inside unlike sleeping or sitting without any occupations are)and is completely under the control from the brain itself,cutting off only unwanted unnecessary details one wishes to avoid,not decreasing basic activities levels like eating or home stuff activity at all,increasing intellectual presence all along,one thing smoking,playing cards or chatting around aren't able to deliver to people and sometimes it is EXACTLY what they need at the moment.I imagine that position of an alligator in a swamp is very close to the condition,in which one finds himself after a long pranayama session.Position,in which the animal is noticing each and every detail around it exactly and correctly,existing in a highly cognitive state yet seemingly asleep but still managing not to show it and existing in a dreamlike state all along.This condition also follows long shirshasana the headstand sessions,but Shirshasana based exceptional peace can be achieved ONLY after a serious physical exertion used and not at all every human being able to do those complicated poses like headstands,while the condition after pranayama use is a simpler physically achieved thing,yet in does not involve hard workout and physical exertion to finally stop undesired intellectual activities.Also the condition,in which old times beings existed non stop and which we lack nowadays and would pay dearly to sometimes yes have around,just why all the TV movies/programmes etc DO exist and thrive in our world.The state/condition we are in as we watch movies and other TV shows very much reminds the meditative condition of such a seemingly half asleep alligator in a swamp or else of a well active in pranayama or a headstand session individual-the fully relaxed yet active mentally condition one strives to find behind the numerous TV programmes.The practise of pranayama is able to gradually increase the size and the power of the heart after practising this muscle our body has as one of the most important and influential ones.The heart is initially suffering a lot during pranayama.This ache is nothing but what happens to a kid that never pulled heavy things around and suddenly decided to do this,puffing heavily with exertion-heartaches he feels then as too serious and dangerous.No such things are noticeable for long time practitioners of both yoga and pranayama,which come through them exactly the way a swamp alligator does-being in a meditative,seemingly sleeplike yet highly conscious and cognitive condition that does not allow body reactions to show up for no reason(in many cases we DO regret the emotions following hard situations ALL to badly later)-a good manager of this body never reacts much to anything(one of the sighns of a developed individual),while silly noise producers are always loud with stupid ideas about this and that,all of them mostly useless anyway.Once an inhabitant of a swampy Florida US area(the region is filled with potentially deadly for humans large alligators)explained me how to behave in presence of an alligator to avoid being attacked by them.The way through this situation is simply to follow your own pre destined course of action,without deviations and considering those present all along alligators,with complete concentration upon your own occupation and nothing else,with no visible deviations to any side and forgetting ALL about your surroundings,never minding the alligator that IS close to you anyway.In case it DOES feel your nervousness and unstable condition(ALL animals,not only alligators,are highly sensitive in real life situations),it YES becomes a danger to your life and health.If you just do what is yours,never dealing with the alligator/noticing it in any way,it WILL leave you alone,you will be yes able to proceed unobstructed by it,and able to proceed with your own plans.This goes along with extreme sensitivity to sounds/smells/alive beings' movements she told me an alligator always possesses and is noticing EACH and every movement you do sometimes even better than yourself,your nervous instability and fear included.This yes existing danger in doing pranayama,that of wasting your heart,one thing people are always afraid of to the point of never doing it(and this is the REAL reason behind lack of information about pranayama in media sources),is very well addressed by stopping dead AS soon as any resemblance of heartaches this definite end of pranayama(you must know this for a definite fact)do appear.Heartaches DO happen,because the heart is programmed to react to lack of oxygen in the bodily cells by increasing the speed of its own activity just to pump more and more blood through the circulatory system,which much higher increase of its activity then strongly tires the heart itself off as this muscle starts to work harder and harder in no time then,and during kumbhaka the holding of breath dead the heart attempts to increase the speed and activity of its work just to keep supplying the common cells with oxygen-it is how every heart is genetically programmed to behave.In some situations the system has to be ruled NOT by the main director the brain but instead by the pre programmed reflexes,as the brain simply isnt able to control EACH of the situations the body got itself into;the brain HAS to keep to a slower level of actions than its subjects down are capable of.To keep up with the supplying bodily cells with their need number one oxygen correctly it keeps adding the speed to its action during kumbhaka the holding of breath and SO gets finally tired,heartaches appearing EXACTLY where we NEED to stop performing pranayama.This pretty much graphic excursion into the physiology of the heart actions during oxygen deprivation as we practise pranayama is necessary to understand the reality of what is going on inside of you as you do pranayama and in this way react to whats going on inside correctly.Without this graphic understanding of the internal events you wont be able to program your actions correctly and with no complications at all.The better and more efficient an owner of the entire system is the more does he know about how EXACTLY is his system is working in any of possible given life situations;and,accordingly,to know such situations is a recommendable thing.Without clear understanding of such things,ones that go on inside of our own selves non stop,we simply will NOT be able to program our actions correctly.A good director always knows A LOT about his enterprise in action and only bad ones never know a thing about it,instead always busy with their own sensual pleasures.High sensitivity to things internal is another must for a nice manager of this body-without such a high sensitivity to events inside one wont be able to manage situations,arising from pranayama(yoga in general too)correctly,one reason why exactly the information,discussed here never ever appears in media sources around people-they are TOO highly likely to misuse/misunderstand/do incorrectly the things that DO have immense influence upon our internal condition.Incorrect though use of these can easily injure the precious internal organs up to the level of NO RETURN and final WASTAGE of these,so be extra careful there!Just as in ANY life branch,developing one of them is ONLY useful once you perform each and every detail of them SUPER correctly.In ways it reminds the life situation,in which 1 must pass through a large swamp;always there IS a certain,known to only specialists in this topic,very definite unchangeable a path,by following which ONLY and without any deviations into any side,1 can at last arrive at the other end of the said swamp.Our life nowadays(once it was THAT simple and safe that we never needed ANY directions)is too often such a deadly swamp,falling into which 1 is certain he will live only 10 additional minutes.And so to know the CORRECT path through this swamp(it is like a technological chain of steps 1 must follow to achieve a nicer life goal),and 1 always must know it to have a good life nowadays,is like the MAIN thing for each of us.We only may have this choise among TOO many paths we might follow;but 1 of those 1 has to find for himself.This is why people that are never interested in human physiology never turn to practising health increasing practises like yoga and pranayama.They arent aquanted/never want it even,with the reality inside of their own bodies and so cannot program its activity correctly.Knowledge of such interior specifications is a definite sign of a one that IS able to manage his health in a correct way.The suffering your heart does experiences as it keeps intensifying its efforts to push the blood with higher speed(it is programmed to do this to keep supplying the cells with oxygen this food number one they require)as you close your nose passages to air IS a complication that needs to be addressed correctly to the very end as it might damage your heart otherwise.This particular technological knowledge though isnt a hard thing to know,unlike it always is with many complicated contemporary subjects that came to existance only recently;nor also is it a TOO simple 1;and ANY thing,which is TOO simple,is never THE answer to life situations as,lets face it,cats and dogs use such simplest things constantly;and we know they are NO specialists in any sort of a good life certainly.Returning to this overpressure the heart gets as the nose passages ARE blocked with our fingers when we perform kumbhaka(or simply speaking,when we block passage of air through the nose),1 must stop blocking it immidiately AS soon as his heart starts aching;it is always done to avoid complications with its condition,so remember to always stop RIGHT at the moment is begins to ache.The entire point of practising pranayama is never to overtire the heart itself,but instead to make it exercise THAT good as to instead gradually increase its capacities and the size of the heart itself;and know that such an increase of the heart's size IS awaiting it the more do you perform pranayama.Silly/stupid as this process might look to newcomers to this EXTREMELY important for your internal organs' discipline and then to its condition too,the introduction of the process into your daily life is able to RADICALLY improve your health into its new levels,which would be like 10 dollars in comparison to just 1 dollar you had before you started doing pranayama,just to put this to easy and simple understanding.To note the MOST important nice results,every heart condition one might be getting in his/her old age or whichever heart/circulatory conditions he might achieve with time(and around the age of 70 everyone aquires some of those inevitably),they ALL diminish to about nothing if one practises these breathing exercises correctly and methodically.And this is going on in our contemporary world,where officially recognized killers of people number one are heart and circulation conditions;this is just what statistics of deaths nowadays tell us about.This sped up activity of your heart during closing your nose passages then adds more oxygen and cells finally ARE satisfied,their satisfaction the only reason for this heart to stop pumping the blood around-thats just how it is internally programmed for any human body-to first reach complete satisfaction of the cells and only THEN to relax.The heart is a strong enough organ to withstand not only action 24 hours a day without any stopping(the heart never ever either sleeps or relaxes for AS long as we DO live),but also such pretty radical pressure areas to it as blocking of your nostrils to air does.As the heart gets a very simple exercise in this way,it is becoming gradually what each of your muscles become after long practise in exercises-a larger by size and more effective/capable of activity in dangerous circumstances entity of your body,more and more able to do its normal anyway activities.All along it perfects the job it is doing,the job of pushing the blood around the organism,because perfecting THE instrument of blood pushing around eventually means perfecting also the pushing of blood itself programme as well,like in additional cells worked over by the blood etc;not speaking also about THE MAIN game of all this system of actions-perfecting the internal condition of the blood itself,this most inner organ of the entire human organism;because blood IS 1 and a very important a human body organ too.In the end pranayama is making your body and its breathing this life function number 1 of ALL we are having around more stabilized/perfected in its details and so adding your life with additional benefits;not percieved ''with a naked eye'' as they say,these lower body doings,we still must admit they ARE existing and having a grand influence upon the organism life in general too.The benefits the brain is simply not percieving as it never deals with such things itself.Thats also why exactly do we have heavy breathing when we run-the cells inside are heavily overworking with its normal duties,the heavy breathing only the sign that they DO take so much more oxygen their food number one.Imagine just how much more than running then pranayama is;as it makes your breathing exercise THAT harshly as only running this well known extreme practise can do;no running clothes/tracks for running even necessary for this aim.After heartaches DO appear though one must stop doing pranayama immidiately,but their appearance only means that the heart this muscle number one is tired finally and needs a break,not at all that the activity is bad and useless as most people then somehow start believing.Heart indeed gets hurt somewhat with kumbhaka the nose lock;it is when you close the nose's passages for air with your fingers.Which is a normal thing one might expect to happen from a completely unpractised muscle,suddenly under pressure to start exercising,and this decrease in its capacities resulting is just 1 first step,unavoidable to further develop its condition to a better one.This would remind us aches of a kid with completely unpractised arm muscles when he makes weights lifting as he doesn't know the final destination that awaits his currently very weak heart in his later life-the state a wrestler or a serious sportsman has to his mighty arms,condition that awaits the heart itself this body main muscle with time passing.However,never do pranayama in case you know your heart(the main exercised body part here)will suffer with doing it.Nor will you be able to injure your heart even voluntarily/intentionally-such are our inherited from other beings before us instincts that they will simply block such an attempt,an automatic reflexes/defense mechanism that will block any self destructive actions from happening.To this there is 1 more,and also a too principal effect to discard off.Sometimes people decide to end their lives in a suicide;debaushed by whatever is it to take such a deadly decision,they act cruelly to the entire system even as THE problem always is with the brain ITSELF;and as i myself often witnessed(my own life has its OWN,known to every human being,very hard moments)ONCE I START doing PRANAYAMA,ANY hard and suicidal life situation simply vanishes off as the brain then,this a deadly decisionmaker,is simply deprived of oxygen,and it is 1 definite NEED each brain has;deprived of it it loses ALL of its capacities you name those you've got it as they say.In this way pranayama is also this final weapon 1 always can wield to stop dead ANY of mental/intellectual complications that lead a human being not only to suicides themselves,but more frequently yet no less deadly,to BRAIN CELLS DESTRUCTION events;and each of such events leaves this human being less capable of withstanding life as the more nervous brain cells do we have(these die off AS soon as we overindulge the brains into whatever is it we consider overly important)the better can we solve life situations and also the more of a HUMAN BEING are we.1 simple lesson to take out of this,indeed,too complicated a discussion,is to NEVER CONSIDER A 1 specific THING FOR TOO LONG,as this is exactly how brain's nervous cells get extinct as they always die out as the result of overworking,1 thing they are never accustomed to,unlike SO many lower situated organs can easily withstand.Upon our physical level this internal blockade of potentially deadly events DOES exist while upon the much newer and less experienced mentality level blockade of potentially deadly events is nonexistant,or why else all the terrorist attacks do take place around?The answer is those terrorists got THAT angry with someone as to openly WILL TO DESTROY other people;and if they simply instead sat down and made pranayama SKILLFULLY for no longer than 20 minutes non stop,i am positive that their entire will to harm others and make terroristic acts would simply vanish into nothing.Their brains simply got certain that they must act to stop this or that a human being/society from whatever is it only THEY themselves hate,and such reasons are always numerous and always extremely deadly not only to...but to themselves AS WELL.The thing though is this life must go on and go on possibly better with positive and possibly better results no matter what.Hate cannot solve anything,but BETTER MANAGEMENT always will;so 1 must turn to such better management,instead trying to outmanoever the presumed opponent by his BETTER life RESULTS,which is the REAL proof 1 is better and is THE correct manager of life.The mentality is SO much less experienced and well managed to work with different life situations than our physical side is;to take the obviously excessive intellectual pressure off any given brain pranayama IS the correct method.Not only end of life the suicide,but even physical injury of this bodily system is AS simple as 1 biggest mistake any human being can commit.The brain this presumed manager of all around us is exactly what a new technologically brilliant detail in a contemporary car is-it is not much practised/experienced,much less capable of sudden changes than its lower subjects the bodily functions are;and less capable of correct behaviour than its lower wheellike parts are.On this end pranayama is a VERY safe thing.A very useful thing is you will never do pranayama for longer than is necessary because aching from it heart will positively block more attempts of it.It is one of things smoking and similar "answers" to complicated mentality situations(smoking IS just a way to get brains busy as one needs them to;while unwilling to think all along)cannot achieve-a beforehands to the injury itself warning that the activity has to be stopped for a while to avoid complications.Aching heart WILL stop you,but will dangerously suffering from smoking lungs do this warning?Lung cancer this 1 of most active human beings' killers is just the answer to this.No,because the lungs are less important than the heart is,the body is never programmed to care about lack of oxygen,which always was around us no matter what and so lungs arent controlled THAT heavily as our hearts are,resulting in lack of nervous lines inside of lungs,and you had no real power to hurt them when they were developing during the times our predecessors were on while the heart DOES have aches that warn us we reached the limit-lungs were not able to be stopped from breathing while the heart WAS able to start overheating,i imagine heavily so even in our old days as we faced numerous dangerous animals,all much pleased with fresh meat we were to them.Escape on feet being the only way out,the heart needed precautions to never get dangerously overheated,and because of this older times' need we had once in our remote past we DO feel when it starts to overwork doing its natural job while lungs never protest their poisoning as such mechanisms were simply never necessary once.Pranayama is exactly such an excessively simple,practical a method to replace smoking as THE taker off of intellectual complications because its rules are not much more complicated than rules of smoking are;yet where smoking leaves the brain ok while THE LUNGS SUFFER immensely instead of it,pranayama leaves the brain ok as well even as not only never threatening the lungs,but in the end even perfecting to a better level the entire human being's health condition.Practise shows that no,due to lack of nerves connecting our brain with our lungs(the heart is connected to the brain very nicely)no such warning "stop it now" does ever happen when we smoke and as a remote result from this mistake the nature made once(we inherited only things we needed once long ago as entities and no other ones,needing to sometimes manage additions ourselves nowadays)deaths from smoking from lung cancer are close to killer of people number one nowadays.Pranayama is a very nice replacement to smoking this occupier of face and fingers we often NEED in life as we must make the face and the fingers busy(this DOES happen and IS the why smoking is on),and smoking IS nothing else but an immidiate ''fingers/face'' entity in us occupier simply speaking,because why else would people be doing this ''crime against their own healves'' thing then?Because medicine and society indeed HAVE proved without any doubt that smoking IS a health danger number 1,yet why everybody keeps smoking then?Weird and yet extensive spidelike smoke in the air only tobacco can produce as burning is also able to activize our brains,just why is it exactly TOBACCO that people do smoke,no other grass around,and there ARE many;but are those producing spidelike lines in the air around?Pranayama,if taken as THE replacement of smoking,can do its job of occupying this brain just AS successfully as smoking does,but with no lung cancer or similar horrible results following.Try this very practical a replacement and all you must remember is 'no heartaches are allowed' rule then!Your own heart will definitely stop you from practising pranayama for too long in the form of heartaches and wasted lungs aren't able to warn you that something is wrong-there was no need in protecting them when lungs as a bodily instrument were forming,while it yes was necessary to avoid overexertion of the heart-it YES was happening in those days that we needed to move real fast and SO overexerted our hearts.This is because the heart,unlike lungs,IS connected with the brain with too many nervous paths and we CAN feel the heart aching while the lungs do fail to warn us about their worsened condition that comes after very active smoking-they were not on as smoking appeared recently and are not at all accustomed to it.Use of pranayama as a very practical replacement to smoking this killer of our lungs is a very practical highly recommended thing and all this said,we never hear about it from any media information sources at all.Another reason to drop smoking and invite in pranayama,this doer of exactly what smoking is supposed to do,in case we try to percieve the real reason why we do smoke-and it isnt to make a smoke cloud or chat with others longer,but to make a human being actively busy while in reality of external activities he is NOT busy anyway.Any harm to the body must be thoroughly avoided during both yoga and pranayama practise.At the start of doing these danger that something will go wrong,injuring the organs,vital to us,IS high,because unlike the brain this need number one in life the lungs aren't of larger importance and so simply aren't connected with the brain by many nervous paths.Basically no heartaches in pranayama and no physical pain/discomfort in yoga is the real short warning/practical rule about doing those two,otherwise the practitioner is very much free to choose THE way through the wild well unknown to us humans forest,known to us in short as yoga and pranayama.No matter what books about those tell you,you ARE free to choose your own path through it,just that there was no harm as THE result.Books we read now about yoga/pranayama are all filled with warnings of the sort ''never do this or that'',all added by contemporary teachers,old texts only mentioning most basic things altogether,while even the fact that these information pieces DID appear to everyone interested(some sacred texts' pieces never are even now)shows us how simple,safe and purely positive the recommendations in reality are.Exactly why authority books on yoga highly recommend learning it from to live teachers-they do know the main paths well and will show you the way.Just as in a real wild forest,traveling through THIS one yes can be dangerous,just that making you a physical trauma would be not wild animals,but uncorrect doing the of yoga/pranayama,and this trauma is yes looming around for someone,new to the forest.Books that describe them though hold all the necessary warnings one needs.Any book,describing yoga poses(if a good serious one sure)does hold descriptions of each of several methods of doing pranayama.I personally use mostly richly written and full with perfectly described yoga methods books by indian master of yoga of 1960-es approximately Iyengar,his book ''Light On Yoga''(another one ''Light On Pranayama'')easily purchasable upon internet sites like AMAZON and EBAY and costing close to 25 US dollars each with transportation fees already included into the figure.What i write here is only an addition and a personal developement of a practical user of the things,described in those books ALL too well.The several pranayama methods all are but using different ways of passing through the nostrils/lungs of external air.The books on yoga enumerate maybe ten different ways/methods of doing pranayama,each of those making a specific influence upon the pranayama practitioner,some cooling him down,some heating him up considerably,the subject another example of an entire world one can find in things simple,ones like yoga and pranayama.And the effects of each of them are very different indeed,it is slowing down or heating the breathing up,inhibiting the intellectual activities of this brain or else gradually heightening/developing those,depending on the particular pranayama type you choose to perform/things and effects you plan to achieve all along.++++++++Faced with small mentions of yoga as a useful practical physical exercise only,an average human does not consider these final results that do await him provided he does follow the path of perfection in yoga,the state in which no serious illness or medical condition is able to get to him without some danger to its own self so to speak.The capacity of illnesses to inflict any harm upon a staunch yoga practitioner is minimal-those who work over the body know this very well and almost never have any serious medical conditions at all.There IS this danger though,just why wild animals will never be around you IF you have a rifle around when moving in it.Yoga in this case is like a rifle,which can damage your attacking predator itself,so none would attack you of illnesses/physical conditions so.Saying it simply,yoga makes you from a comparatively weak physically individual,endangered by wild animals illnesses non stop,into an athlete with booming health the bacteries/illnesses never get close to.Once i heard this story that insects are extremely sensitive to things a human being emanates as by-products of his life processes,sensing an unhealthy/perfectly good physically feeling being right away from some distance to it simply by the emanated by his body smells and other symptoms too.They can feel the condition of our internal organs even as simply being close to us(had been reading this information in trustable scientific sources once),by the smell we emanate recognizing the condition we are in,or by their trained eyes,very sensitive in animals/bacteries/other dangerous to humans entities immidiately recognizing our capacities as possible prey or a being to be keeping further away and off for their own good.I know that I am comparatively young now,49 years old,but am happy to say that I had no serious illnesses getting hold of me for real many years and this situation is yes easily achieved for those who do want to get the result while YES willing to pay its price(mostly in time,spent upon exercising and technological details to make yoga/pranayama,and those DO exist and need to be followed thoroughly to it).Pranayama unlike yoga in general(which is,simply speaking,is the developer of particular bodily parts into better entities)gives exercise to the heart muscle mostly,yoga working with many lesser organs instead,and needs to be stopped after the heart is tired(appearance of even slight heartaches,which DO happen and are the definite limit,where the practicioner is to stop doing pranayama.I sometimes found with practising that forgetting such "safety regulations" in search of a better final result is always and undoubtedly well regretted later(regrettable unability for some while after it NOT only to do the exercises,but to have perfect command over your body as well)and if one cannot follow this most general rule,the one of NO ACHES WHATEVER HAPPENS,is endangering his internal organs with practising yoga and pranayama,one thing that WILL one day stop the exercising for you anyway,as the recollection of a thing unpleasant DOES tend to stop your desire to move on with it later.Both the disciplines yes can be harmful and dangerous,if performed incorrectly.The simple rule here is "Stop right away once you feel any pain or worsening of condition of any body part".Main rules of this sort are all mentioned in old books about yoga,a subject that never suffers any changes to itself throughout the ages,no changing of rules as many contemporary subjects do,because the human body is ever the same thing our predecessors long before Christ had and practised unlike numerous contemporary achievements that each have many additions with every following year or else they simply stop being useful and lose their importance.Yoga and pranayama were used long before Christ,their rules are simple and constant with no changes possible,one thing people even LACK and need nowadays as a stable comfortable island of nice feeling all around in the contemporary world,flocked up with constant changes and worries.Practising it(as much as any other organ too)is destined to gradually increase the heart(this unseen by eyes yet cardinally important for a human being organ,so much more important than arms' muscles,which as science tells us is responsible for over a half of deaths humans have each year worldwide,or killer of human beings number one worldwide,in both its size and its capacities,just the way hand muscles do increase in size and power during weight lifting and while hand ones aren't of large importance to an individual,mostly important for external stature posing,the heart ones are much more influential,participating in processes,very basic inside of us and especially important,like adding blood to bodily organs and so regulating their condition and not allowing these to age prematurely with a sudden death as a result.Mostly people simply have no idea about this rich amazing world inside of our own selves,one with its own flora,fauna,predators and dangerous things around,rules of behaviour etc,you name it-it IS there.Also,constant and persistent making of pranayama can gradually reduce the amount of oxygen 1 uses to a lower level per minutes (like from a litre of oxygen a minute to 0.9 litres or so),and when an average person uses say a litre of oxygen per minute(fake figures simply to show the tendency correctly),a pranayama practiser will consume with time flowing less than a litre(a guess sure) by maybe 10 or more percent for an average minute of normal breathing in case he practises pranayama for a long while, because the longer one practises about every thing the more perfect in that thing he/she becomes,just the way it is with arms' muscles, as those both increase in size in this way and become more capable of intricate and useful operations,which all then increase the output of life we humans then experience.And the less oxygen do you use the longer life will you be having.If you did not use your resources and they got collected inside,you are not only without losses but are also with GAINS of those resources that had been collecting inside of you,and the sort of resources in this case is TOO basic not to consider it of a paramount importance.Delay in aging and final death the most picturesque of them all.Or,if we die of other reasons(a rare thing in the contemporary world with no large wars or endemics),the condition of your organs each will be that of a younger human being by the life end,and we know how much better did we feel/operate life once as we were younger.Less witty/intellectual yes yet SO much more magnificent and able physically was our past.Its like in case you take from your bank account too much averagely,with time flowing your account wont be holding in it ANY cash at all.Just that way the less oxygen do you use the more 'internal cash holding' and longer living will your 'health bank account' be.These things are no fake ideas,they are very realistic,are all down to our most basic life components/ways and if you simply do not understand/follow them,it doesnt make disappear the fact that you will be having a better/worse life if you DO/do NOT perform yoga/other physics boosting activities too towards your health boost accordingly.The world of your own physical condition/organs(the living physical beings beings inside of it)can be easily made the object of one's work/occuption even without the loss of your present occupations,it can only add to the present ones along their ways too,boosting those chanses too.No need to relinquish your main life activities at all,the way people think it IS with such things.Add these physically orientated things like exercises bit by bit,find time for doing them once in a while when they do not interrupt you too much,and with time flowing you will find that you NOT only didnt lose a lot of time(the way it traditionally looks from aside),but even that your traditional activity is suddenly BOOSTED to its own higher levels too,because an overworking brain,if added with working well physics,IS then able to increase its own chanses of better performed intellectual operations.This is also how your interior organs will be like with time flowing,not how any partly fake or less useful to an individual values are,and i refer here to internet and other amazingly rich by size contemporary thingies,complicated sciences,numerous calculations of sorts etc.Not that those are to be relinquished altogether,being an important part of our daily life anyway,but they must get somewhat aside to make a living place for the extremely important health issues too.The amount of litres of oxygen,this food number 1 a human needs(a definite claim of contemporary medicine is that oxygen is needed SO much more to us than food)so much more than what we call food normally and is used non stop,even in his sleep,is always the same for a lifetime(it is a statement from Ayurveda the anscient Indian health science and also common logic,and the less 1 uses oxygen currently the more will he be able to use it later(same for what we call food and other life objects in fact too),lungs becoming less aged/wasted with the entire health/individual's condition boosted as the result,making his life both longer and higher quality actions containing.My own work with oxygen as a need(I do pranayama always and daily but sometimes forget about it to do other things too,just the way an ordinary westerner does)shows me that a human can easily live with one fifth of the amount of oxygen our air contains without much decreasing quality of his actions.If he is in a nice physical condition of course.I use to do pranayama that makes my oxygen intake one fifth of the normally used by human beings one i would roughly estimate,several times a day,this quality condition pranayama can show as inside a long professionally performed pranayama session.Just the way the immense sea is nothing much of a water basin that never influences you in any way if you are by its shore.While it DOES have VERY large influence as you reach its depths,of probably a hundred metres from the seashore.The difference between the two is exactly the difference between a newcomer to yoga and an old seasoned successful yoga practitioner.People are simply well accustomed to THE behaviour of rich people(shown in numerous soap operas well)that have no new place to spend their money upon,not caring about their own basics almost at all.And even if he won't need to economize our prime need and resource oxygen this way(many while not at all most of deaths come from much harsher things around)the lungs will be healthier by the end of life as they processed less of this external world thing that oxygen is and so they aged less with time,because age is nothing more than hardships we endured during our lives that changed us into a worse condition,much increasing the quality of life for that particular individual.Like this making pranayama is able to make us not only healthier but also younger and having much better physical condition too with some time passing.Doing pranayama is able to replace the need in smoking very well with another system of exercises for hands and the face THAT simply speaking SMOKING IS.Heart(this main oxygen processing bodily part,profiting from making pranayama)is both suffering during it,but mostly during pranayama's beginning parts as then,as every other entity,it gradually well adjusts itself to new life and gradually increasing in its size and capabilities by doing it, just the way arm muscles first ache after some work,later not even noticing it as they had become larger and stronger AFTER MUCH PRACTISE though,which we as wise humans can and must add to it,making muscles,brain or whatever else do we practise more effective instruments after useful and not overtiring exercises,things that arent easily achieved nowadays for a newcomer.However,unlike the more recent additions to an organism(in particular the brain,history of which is a much newer thing to an Earth organism,and is accounting only to the most recent centuries' history),the heart is a much harder thing to injure,poison or destroy,too well used to different attempts at exercising it and pressure upon it during all the generations it had witnessed even as we were existing in numerous pre human forms,the only thing that keeps working actively even as we sleep at night,including those as dinosaurs,birds etc,which makes it an ideal playground for people that are afraid of things,more complicated by nature and,let's face this,they are the most significant part of the population,even as both least heard of or influential.The heart had been used and practised by too many generations before us here the current live beings,and practised non stop,without a break for even a single minute or any sleeping which the heart never does,including prehistoric creatures like dinosaurs etc,which were all nothing but our predecessors on this planet that gave the genes of this constantly active instrument to us contemporary beings and they all exercised it,making additional exercising the least complicated of all subjects we might find around for use.Not practising these instruments isn't wise and is only accounted to the lack of information around,and the idea that the brain is giving presumably real profits and one should only worry about it,which is unwise and less practical considering that it dies along with all the organism AS soon as any of the many organs a human body possesses refuses to work and dies,most commonly simply neglected and completely forgotten by its manager and director the brain,which had been overbusy with its OWN tasks throughout of this life.All this in practical terms means that making pranayama is a need one better does.The heart is the safest playground and place for actions of different sorts for the master of this body who does want to make a change and achieve success in ways in this life and not only(as in most people)increase his own self in size and abilities.This is the reality that exists even if we do not notice it(most people never do),even as not mentioned in any information sources simply because the authors of those latest publically advertised sources otherwise wouldn't be heard of and they need our attention as we pay their bills simply speaking,listening to them.Whenever one hears a "definite,unchangeable truth",as much as non stop propagated "values" he would better keep in mind rethinking and reassessing the thing propagated,even as no truth is the same for every human being but to each of us comes with his or her own additions and changes,only following which does a human become a success not only to his own self,but,as a remote result of it,also to other people/the human society5 around.Back to health the real,never leaving us value though(others will yes leave us with time flowing,when forced into it by failing health finally).The longer one practises pranayama the stronger his/her heart will become,because the heart is nothing but a muscle,even as the most important 1 of ours.We all acknowledge that bodybuilding does increase the size and tonus of our muscles,making a sportsman a success,and the heart is the central muscle,indeed most vulnerable but also the most practised by numerous previous generations before us now and the strongest of all muscles and also because of this fact most deserving additional practising and increasing of it in size and capabilities.Heart diseases are known to kill the largest number of people that die off yearly,it is the statistical truth.Pranayama mostly practices this main body muscle,and in the light of the definite fact that heart conditions are killer of humans number one it is very important to exercise it and give it additional time to get stronger and larger just to destroy this too often happening a possibility of a sudden heart attack that can suddenly kill us,stopping every thing or doing we are busy at this exact moment in time.To say it simple(rules of pranayama are much more complicated for better success)during pranayama you block your own nose breathing and leave it "in peace" and free to run normally only after your heart starts to ache and suffer.This practise IS safe if you never tire your heart too much.Nor will it allow you to overtire it-or else the pain will be too much to bear.A very similar process to exercising other muscles,pranayama takes out of the game this well known killer number one of humans that heart attack is.Heart conditions are estimated as killer of most humans in the world,the statistics are definite here.To yes remember the definite need of practising pranayama,I myself use the method of counting times I made a blocking of the nose,as much as other "exertions" as I call them,including push-ups and other things that can make my heart run faster.The counting allows you NOT only to count the rounds as it externally is seen,indeed a very important thing,but MOSTLY not to forget about yes keeping making pranayama,this definite instrument that is making our hearts from a very weak killer of humans number one to an extremely strong like bodybuilder organ that yes can manage to gradually replace our current internal and very basic indeed structure with the instrument that stops making us problems like heart attacks and starts to feed our most basic body cells THE correct way,managing their condition better because it is what a normal,not weak heart,is supposed to do and keeps doing even as we their brains do sleep at night,THAT basic and important the blood distribution process is.Without this counting of heart exertions the instrument I propose to add to otherwise well detailed methodics of doing pranayama,you will definitely give to pranayama less attention,because counting includes into the process of increasing of heart power the mind,which otherwise always tends to be busy elsewhere,taking you to much less important tasks this life keeps presenting us with.Things,forgotten very easily the very next day while the heart remains here no matter what else is going on.Simply forgetting about it among very numerous contemporary doings that always tend to take over our attentions,because contemporary things are addictive and among them we always do forget about the real useful things we are made directors to follow-the benefits and wellbeing of our own bodily organs and tissues.All sorts of things you do at the moment will be well forgotten after a month at most,and the heart in its new better condition will stay with you no matter what happens to you long after a month elapses,increasing your vitality and delaying your fading away health and even death.A good master of this body though must take his own control over events,taking it away from those usurpers of your mind's attention the endless things that DO fill our lives,even as just to prolong his own life and add some really good quality to it.Another useful thing,easily taken by ardent and long practitioners of pranayama from it is placid,well pacified mind,stable in many hardships you might be facing in life,uninterested in the least in quarrels and nasty mental conditions people are well accustomed to,constant miserly weird things' calculation,which do fill contemporary life.What significant can pranayama do to the brain is to temporarily slow down its levels of activity and pacify the brain into a more delicate pieceful condition,in this way releasing it from the pressure of conditions that can inflict harm upon it.Even as not holding correct figures to this at the moment,i would roughly estimate the additional perfection you achieve during your pranayama practise(internal to your organs and tissues)as a 5 times higher 1.Whichever bad mental things that occupy my brain are,when practising pranayama I achieve great relief to the brain from doing it,in the form of loss of interest to those stupid thingies that can terrorize my brain and overtake its time spending.Contemporary history had shown us many examples of high pressure upon one's brains that managed to partially or even completely destroy them,what to speak of heart conditions,which are even easier achieved.Many people advertise meditation as a way to take pressure off the brain while pranayama is a simpler,more physical and less demanding from your psycho even way to do it,and more mechanical by principle and action than the imaginative meditation is.Meditation demands from you some things your brain then FIRST needs to do for achieving the success,and pranayama wants NOT a single thing from your brain to bring to your mentality the break/rest it often does needs while unable to achieve.Yoga and pranayama can considerably delay the final destruction of the organs and the brain itself too(pranayama takes off stress altogether)and the more we exercise in it the less realistic those conditions become for our own future.This effect is very simple by its nature and is based upon this extremely simple method temporary deprivation of brain cells of oxygen,which is more necessary as food to the bodily system in general and brain in particular even more so,of feeding which oxygen provides them.Deprived of oxygen,the brain cells immidiately start to hibernate with comparatively sleeplike state following shortly.Oxygen in reality,and I was reading this fact in scientific books myself,is much more the food and the necessity to the bodily system than what we traditionally call food(vegetables,milk,meat etc)is,and so the oxygen feeding is even more principal a part of our feeding than the rest of what we consume daily and call our food.Pranayama,even more than its basic home discipline yoga,can very successfully counteract those bad for mentality effects of overwork and high pressure upon the brain,and even more so than yoga its starting and home discipline can.However yoga presents itself as much more of a business to the untrained eye of a commoner than pranayama does,even as it deals with much less important an activity than breathing exercises do.Pranayama is this hidden precious jewel of yoga its main basic home 9discipline.People that did not practise yoga the physical exercises though are much less likely to take much use of pranayama,which is exactly why it isn't well developed a subject in most of books,devoted to physical side of Hindu thought(and those are rare nowadays too).As in most other topics around,we face only their basic principles when approaching them,detailed and in fact more important parts of them hidden inside of them.This is just the story with yoga the home and pranayama the jewel,hidden inside of it.Pranayama,ability to make use of it and finally the need to do it(one thing only long yoga practitioners do have)is a more remote part of the country,simply known as yoga by public,a much more complicated,sometimes dangerous and sometimes blessing an area to develop,not many available to public books about it but a very general map of this large and fascinating subject.Also what is very good and practical about pranayama is that it can be practised in any place,for example while walking the streets,and influences more important to a human areas like the heart and breathing passages,unlike yoga,which always needs a sizeable enough clean room,softened up by a soft cloth etc.Pranayama is what I myself do in most cases,where additional occupation is required even while doing other things,and when most people spend playing on their cell phones while they can play upon their own noses instead,things that support their brains while ignoring its physical basis the body-the most serious support one's brain might possibly get.Even as authoritant texts warn us about doing pranayama separately from yoga its main discipline,i personally find that these 2 are easily coexisting together with no harm to each other IF one can manage their common yet personal at this a life and those who ARE good in both yoga and pranayama ARE versatile in them for AS much as not to be afraid of the mutual coexistance of those 2 seemingly very different things.Again,i as a constant practitioner of these both(the general rule exists only for beginners)can be certain-both yoga and pranayama ARE easily connecting together and CAN coexist in 1 common process.If you are good enough a practitioner of those 2 both,the art of making them go side-by-side IS a realistic thing to learn.If the constant practise of these DID teach me anything certain,it is that they are completely safe things for practical use,a perfect thing to try to hold to.Even as the traditional yoga texts recommend us to use only the 2 largest fingers of a hand(the thumb and the forefinger),i personally find this rule to be only the starting point to a larger exploration of the pranayama theme-1 thing you definitely will be passing through as your pranayama study and practise keep developing on.The more remote and developed stages of doing pranayama are allowing ANY finger as an instrument in pranayama practise.Currently i easily exchange all of 4 smaller hand fingers as the partners to the thumb of the hand in doing pranayama.Normally in a human being smaller than the thumb fingers are weakly/not at all operated with,while this thing the developement of each of the fingers IS a highly recommendable thing to do.The easily provable by your own experience thing is that each of the 4 combinations of 2 fingers is producing yet another,somewhat different from other ones an influence upon your body,and it is even easy to accertain a particular face/appearance of each of the 4 fingers' combinations while doing breath exercises.The more of different influences upon your health though the larger the pranayama influence upon your health is.The root of such an increased influence upon your health here is AS simple as the significant for your internal tissues ONLY difference among all of the 4 electric charges between 2 of the fingers' electric charges(each of the 4 holds a slightly different electric charge,and the size/capacities of each of the 4 fingers is a definite proof to this idea)you use at the particular moment in doing pranayama.Even as the electric charge,passing through your nose during pranayama(fingers DO normally hold an electric charge to them,a smaller or a lesser 1 though)is not a serious enough 1 to make any significant health issues for you later,its microscopic change to a new level as you change your fingers on IS able to exert noticeable additional pressure upon your internal organs/tissues provided you DO use such changes for some long enough a time of practising pranayama exercises.To this end try to use NOT only your thumb and forefinger as practising pranayama,but sometimes to also add OTHER smaller fingers to your pranayama practising.Just be careful enough to always release the grip upon the fingers you use AS soon as you start feeling them to become less efficient and more tired off.If you manipulate the fingers well/successfully enough,they are destined to NOT only stop tiring off quickly(because in most people it is JUST what will happen as you replace many fingers often),but to even gradually increase in both strenght and their capacities too.Even as mostly ineffective at this moment,with time and practise going on each of your other than the thumb and the forefinger ones WILL increase in its capacities/strenght considerably enough to already practise pranayama,using EACH of the 5 hand's fingers at your own will for further INCREASE in practical use of the pranayama you practise.I personally can easily both use and also interchange all of the 4 fingers that accompany the thumb while practising pranayama,as well as to practise pranayama while sitting in a bus or even as walking upon my own feet,accordingly making much larger use out of the walking itself even.As you sit it IS indeed the best to use nose pressurizing with the tips of your fingers because the tips,as used for this,are making larger answer from your brain and so activize it more;however you might find it best to do pranayama NOT only as you sit down for this purpose,but also ALL ALONG with walking too.Using the tips of fingers as you walk will quickly make them tired and unable to perform any longer;but if you use the SIDES of your fingers instead and not their tips,it YES will be possible to keep doing pranayama along with walking.So first you press your nose with the thumb and the forefinger NOT BENDING those and touching the nose only with SIDES of each finger then;and during your next pranayama exercise you already use the forefinger and your middle(the longest)1.Each of the next pranayama attempts taking already 1 new pair of your fingers and the pair in each case moving slightly to the right and so repeating the direction the Sun takes as it circumvents the Earth by 1 more circle around it.As you reach BOTH the thumbs you simply use both the palms of yours then,touching your nose with each of them that time.These additions(i never saw them in any books about yoga/pranayama)are able to put even more of additional pressure upon the exerted so organs(the heart in particular),being of a very small size and so unable to overexert your heart too considerably.Small as they may look to a novice in this matter,such additions to your pranayama practise can significantly increase the FINAL additional energy OUTPUT that pranayama DOES tend to invest into your overall health.The thing is actually THE SMALLER the THINGS you use ARE THE LARGER their FINAL OUTPUT for the entire organism of yours will be AFTER some CONSIDERABLE though time of their use.Not to consider the most obvious use you then find to your otherwise seemingly empty time as you walk down the streets towards your desired destination-the time you simply lose off then becomes a useful at least for your health exercise you WILL be performing as opposite to JUST walking around usellessly(listening to radio etc are MUCH worse ways to use this freed from actions time).Again,it is best in such situations to keep accounting your pranayama rounds you had been just performing,because this is yet another way of a ''white noise'' occupation,and such most innocent ones are in fact able to influence you THE LARGEST of all your occupations,even as externally these look amazingly useless and lacking any potential.The REAL point of this counting certainly is no making your pranayama rounds larger by numbers;instead it is to MAKE your BRAIN WORK additionally even as amazingly safely to that.And if you add to this simplest brain workout also the exercising YOUR FINGERS are getting too as pressing upon the nostrils you will be looking at strangely HIGHER NERVOUS cells' ACTIVITY you had just achieved simply by walking around!Simplest things are the best ways to engage your brain and its activities as the least they CAN achieve then is your INTERNAL perfection,and this is 1 thing no other things will give you;while too busy with things external you ALWAYS lose your internal things too;this way is leading you to extinguishing your own health for the ultimate use of external items' perfection;and this way simply is NOT perfect enough to deal with.YES dealing with things external we nevertheless should never forget to ALSO deal with our internal things too.Nothing in this exclusively nowadays differentiated a world is small enough to NOT consider as an item to keep collecting.What i suggest here is only adding to your most internal and basic life processes like breathing,energy intake during eating or else such,never cancelling dead higher more complicated items too.With time and special attention / considerable time,spent in pranayama exercises(less so with yoga even),you will find the levels of your sensitivity and exact moments,when you just must stop doing pranayama/yoga/actually most every other thing in your life too,growing to amazing levels with not even a slightest doubt about the exact limitations of activities you perform,and yoga/pranayama ones are only the very start of the stuff you would be absolutely positive about when exactly are you to either enter these or exit them too;theres a large profit here,1 of freeing your brain from too much considerations of lower body life affairs as you simply speaking allow those lower body parts considerable authonomy,which actually is undoubtedly leading to better internal condition,just the way authonomy of non-traditionally dwelt national areas IS recommended for some specific nationality based country,and with time 1,doing yoga/pranayama constantly is about to find real comfort in such things. ARDHA PRANAYAMA This is 1 more exercise i do not see in yoga related literature but i find it useful. HOW TO DO Its use is much the same as traditional pranayama is showed to work,but here instead of oxygen deprivation traditional pranayama asks us to perform with fingers' induced nose closure,we do the holding of the upper part of Kundalini(the internal body muscular system)by means of what yoga specialists call Jalandhara Bandha,and this is when your chin touches your chest,closing in this way the JALA(sanskrit for NETWORK and the network is so much more than just the upper Kundalini piece)and SO holding the Kundalini pressurized upon;this direct closure of muscular pieces movements(this closure is exactly what does the trick with ensuing after this heavy breathing)is just another way of final failure of internal systems;we know that when we close our nose the system fails as it gets no oxygen in,1 thing it DOES need;and in this case system's failure(it results in heavy breathing,after which 1 has to return to normalcy)is taken out of holding our Kundalini pinpointed to 1 exact spot,and Jalandhara Bandha(chest touching chin,simply speaking)has the tendency of pinpointing the Kundalini inside to 1 exact spot,the 1,where it has to be in 1 and only position:Kundalini in healthy people just HAS to be constantly moving around,and Jalandhara Bandha stops this movement around.For healthy people this heavy breathing with Jalandhara and Mula(this is when you hold your anus' attached muscles/Kundalini in 1 spot with anus muscles)Bandhas ONLY will be hard to achieve;and this is why traditional texts never mention these ways of performing pranayama-they all are for promoted stages of pranayama users only.People,never used to holding on to Kundalini systems arent sensible to holding them by only Jalandhara Bandha and will not find there heavy breathing,which is able to exercise your Kundalini;but sensitive people WILL get heavy breathing,using only both Jalandhara and Mula Bandhas;because,simply speaking,using both of these Bandhas IS this way of performing pranayama i call Ardha Pranayama.Even as beginners/people with no promoted pranayama usage will be needing traditional (Paripurna)pranayama methods only,people with developed by breathing exercising systems WILL find heavy breathing(this IS what makes pranayama a useful thing)with use of only both the mentioned bandhas(Mula and Jalandhara).After use of pranayama for years at a row i personally find this Ardha Pranayama of the very same use to me as Paripurna method brings me.After a long time of pranayama use 1 will develop heartache as the heart is under constant pressure;