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104 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalirespiration is re-established. The poise was long lost but nowfound. It was there in our childhood. In an averagely healthychild, born to healthy parents, the respiration is bound to be inequilibrium. Such a child breathes in accordance with the beatof the music that is intended by nature. Then the respiration iscalled natural. As we grow in age, it is disturbed again andagain. Whenever there is a psychological shock or an emotionaljerk, there is a disturbanc; there is a jolt. When you are angryyour respiration is disturbed. When you feel jealous it is disturbed,when you fear something, it is disturbed. When you anticipatesomething, it is disturbed, when you expect someone it isdisturbed, when there is the news of sickness it is disturbed, ofdeath it is disturbed. Whenever you are anxious of somethingthen the rhythm of respiration is disturbed. Many hundreds oftimes in the day we manage to get it disturbed.Then there is the power of habit waiting to establishwhatever is repeated. The disturbance is established and wehave a continuous discord in respiration, the rate of which goeson increasing in the form of quick breath, short breath, out ofbreath until we breathe out the last, It has become natural forus to make the breath unnatural as we grow in age. Disturbancebecomes a habit. Even though we do not want it, the respirationcontinues to be disturbed. Habit is more powerful than anyoneof the layers of the consciousness. It is produced by nature tomake our span by establishing the repetition of respiration andcirculation. Hence habit is more powerful than any vital orpsychological faculty. As we succeed in establishing the habitof irregularity in our respiration, as we grow in age, we succeedin killing ourselves before our span is completed. This provesthat we can break an older habit, break the chain and establishor engraft a new habit. Now we have to do the same thingagain by practising Pranayama. We have to break the chain ofthe discord and engraft the elder habit of respiration.
Lesson - 6 105To do this you should develop a continued awareness toyour own respiration. This is the first step. Choose the sametime and same place and begin to practise. Sit in comfort, closeyour eyes and relax every muscle and every nerve of your bodywith the help of your mind. With your mind travel slowly fromyour head to your feet, noticing every nerve and muscle inside.Wherever you find tension see that it is relaxed. The secondstep is to observe the movements that take place during eachrespiration. By doing so you are growing more and more awareof your respiration. The mind that is working in the head-centrelearns to approach the activity of the respiration and circulationthat is taking place in the heart-centre. The objective mind learnsto grow subjective. The activity of the not-self starts gettingabsorbed into the activity of the real self, the soul-light. All theactivity of the head will be withdrawn to the heart-centre. Thenthe head-centre is released of the hitherto existing disturbance.The intelligences of Shambhalla begin to work with the headcentre.The mind learns to offer itself up to the activity of theHierarchy. You will learn to take part in the activity of the Christwhile the beings of Shambhalla begin to take care of you. Everydayyou should find some time to practise this. Make the respirationconscious by respiring consciously.The third step is to establish uniformity in respiration.Begin to inhale and exhale under your supervision. Breatheslow, soft and deep. Let there be no acceleration, no retardationin the process. Breathing soft means you should not produceor listen any sound in your breath. Between one inhalation andexhalation, let there be no Khumbaka practice. Let not thebreath constipate inside. Some schools of Yoga teach usKhumbaka or retention of breath in Pranayama. You are askedto inhale counting ten, then you are asked to retain the air inside,counting forty and then breathe out, counting twenty. Then countfive with empty lungs. Again begin to breathe. This is what is
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