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- Pranayama for Meditation
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Author Vijai Sharma, PhD
It is true that sitting in meditation after some time would automatically produce slow, smooth and rhythmical breathing. But you can also speed up the process of deepening your meditation practice by cultivating the habit of slower, deeper and smoother breathing. Improved breathing patterns would also create a psycho-emotional state conducive to more peaceful and joyful meditation.
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- 10 Essential Tips to Breath Your Way to a Better Life
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Many people do not realize just how important breathing, that is deep and focused breathing, is to your overall well being. If you can learn how to practice deep breathing and make that a part of your daily meditation, you will feel more balanced and healthy.
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- Pranayam, Joy and The Big Bang
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Author Matt Gluck
The breath is the hub of all that we are, think and do. It provides access to the mind and its deepest recesses. Pranayam, or yogic breathing practices, enable us to voyage in a steady vessel, to new territories, in order that we may continue to expand in harmony with our ever growing universe.
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- Ancient Texts on Pranayam
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Author Vijai Sharma, PhD
The following pranayama article is an analysis of the application and importance of breathing exercises in the yoga practice as defined by Classical Texts. These texts emphasize control, patience and discipline-elements needed to create a fulfilling and mindful pranayama practice. After all, the literal meaning of pranayama is “control and expansion of prana!” In the “Samadhi Pada” the first chapter of Yoga Sutra (YS).
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- Yoga Breathing for Health
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Author Vijai Sharma, PhD
This article is about Yoga Breathing for Health and the Sixteen Ways to Slow Breathing and Lengthen Exhalation. Almost everyone including people with asthma or COPD (Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Breathing) can benefit from breathing slowly and exhaling more completely. Benefits of slow breathing and longer exhalation are many.
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- Breathe Right-Part 1
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Author Vijai Sharma, PhD
Usually we breathe in the automatic mode and are not conscious of our breathing. We become conscious of it only when we experience a breathing problem such as shortness of breath, chest tightness or a feeling of suffocation. Eastern societies in the ancient times emphasized conscious breathing for physical, mental and spiritual benefits. Importance of deeper, fuller and relaxed breathing for health and wellness cannot be overstated.
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- Breathe Right-Part 2
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Author Vijai Sharma, PhD
Chronic mental and emotional stress or a medical/structural problem can create tension in the muscles and nerves in the entire body including the muscles of respiration. When you are physically, mentally and emotionally relaxed, your breathing is naturally slow, deep and relaxed. You can change your breathing if it is tense or incorrect by putting yourself in a state of relaxation and practicing relaxed breathing.
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