Pranayama Yoga

Pranayma is a set of breathing exercises which helps in treating various health disorders. It is also being popular because the proper practice of this technique keeps all your worries away.

Our breathing or respiratory system is directly connected to all the important organs and systems of our body which means the heart, mind and digestive system. All these organs are generally prone to diseases. Instead of taking innumerable medicines, what is important is to prevent any disease that affects them. Pranayam is an affective way of healing. Pranayam is said to be the 4th step in the stream of yoga discipline. It is highlighted in the list of Ashtanga yoga’s eight fold paths.

Breathing exercises in Pranayama

Pranayama is made up of two words. The first one is ‘Prana’ which means life itself and the other one is ‘Ayama’ meaning self control or gradual development. So, Pranayam is the development of life or life force. We can even regard it as a control over the various forces of life which are often badly affecting the physical and social well being of a person. Pranayam exercises are breathing exercises which promote the influence of self will and self control. Most of the yoga postures or asanas are helpful in healing the problematic situation of life which creates various difficulties in the survival of the person.

Anxiety is a condition of the mind where the mind does not get any kind of relaxation. It is important for the person to get rid of this situation and bring his/her mind back to normal position. Pranayam is the best way of doing this. Breathing exercises are helpful in providing relaxation to the mind and body. They are helpful in sustaining the life by the help of a unique life force, the breath.

Yoga was developed as way of uniting the soul with the divine force or power. Though pranayam is also an important stream of yoga still is not used as the way of moving away from the vicious circle of life. It is rather used as a way of fighting back against the problems of life. It provides various benefits like treatment of heart related problems, weight, height, asthma, nose problems, improvement in the respiratory problems etc.

Pranayam is sub divided into categories some of them are Alom-viloma, Ujjayee, Bhastrika, Krapalbharti, Anuloma and Suryabhedana etc. People may complain that breathing exercises create some kinds of problems in the beginning . Once you get into the habit of doing them regularly their benefits are multi-fold. Krapalbharti is being commonly used as a treatment for loosing weight nowadays. Apart from these, all the yoga exercises along with the breathing ones are beneficial to a much greater extent so you can help yourself by doing them properly.