PRANAYAM - Expansion of Vital Energy

Scientific Reasons & Benefits of Pranayam Practices

Pranayama is a super important science; it is the practice of breathing consciously. To put in perspective, someone can survive a couple of weeks without eating, a couple days without drinking water, but only a minute without breathing is not possible to survive. Modern science says that your breathing is deeply interrelated with thoughts. Like the thoughts, we are having depended on the rhythm of our breathing. By breathing slower we hold up the thoughts, and by breathing faster we hold to have more thoughts. By doing breathing slowly one can control the state of mind and emotions. For example – when we are at stress, anxious or angry, our breathing will be short, shallow and rapid. By being the aware slaving dam of our breathing.  become Someone can calm if breathing will be naturally slow, smooth, even and continuous. 

Also, science says that breathe more slowly and more deeply would live longer than those who don’t. According to the breath rate, we all have a different life span. In the anatomy class of 200 hours yoga teacher training course at Hari Om Yoga Vidya school, Rishikesh, we gamed that the Vagus nerve which starts from the brain and passes through heart, longs, stomach intestine and colon can help activate the Para Sympathetic mode in the nerves system. Scene it passes through the diaphragm, It would move like a floss when you breathe from your abdomen. you can also activate it by doing the Humming (Bee) Pranayama. What will it do if your Vagus nerve will activate? It activates the Para Sympathetic nerves system. As you know, lower the blood pressure, heart rate and give us a sense of relaxation. The Para Sympathetic nervous system is our relax “mode”. It is not good psychologically and mentally to be in fight or fight mode all the time, on the large term, it could give some problems to the health or psychologically related. 

Through the 100 hours yoga teacher training, we saw a lot of different Pranayama’s technique with all different purpose, and we experience that there are so many more Pranayam that you can do it all have different purposes and benefits. So many of them can cure cancer, blood pressure, strengthen the nervous system,  digestive systems and raise metabolite state, calm the mind, soothe the nervous system, simulate some specific chakras or even all of them, releases insomnia, stress, anxiety, anger, balance the Doshas and even more.

Finally, we can say Pranayam practice can give us so many benefits. It makes our attention to breathing and helps us to become more relax. Pranayam is probably the best way to do an inward journey for meditation. it’s the easiest techniques to calm the mind to stop having more thoughts.