All Indian yoga breathing techniques have one thing in common called "Pranayama" from ancient times to the present day. What is breathing? Gas exchange between the organism and the environment is called respiration. Oxygen enters the cells and tissues of the body, and then exchanged in the lungs for carbon dioxide. This process occurs continuously without stopping. Technology Hatha Yoga affects the direction and character of the metabolic processes of the organism in its consistent application. Yoga is based on Pranayama.
Cessation of movement of inhaled and exhaled air is called Pranayama. A person should be in a certain position during its execution. Pranayama is the yoga of breath control. It stops the air movement in and out of the body. Deep state of rest neutralizes breath, removes all of its visible signs. Delay prana helps to concentrate the mind. Prana is the source of life. Breathing is the foundation of prana.
Pranayama Yoga is the fourth of eight stages of Raja Yoga of Patanjali.
Classical Pranayama Yoga always consists of three phases: exhale - "rechaka" breath - "puraka" delay - Kumbhaka. The delay comes in two forms: after inhaling - Antar Kumbhaka, after expiration - "Bahia Kumbhaka".
In addition, "Kumbhaka" divided by "Sahitya" - associated with the inhalation and exhalation, and "Kevala" - an absolute or complete. Prana is the universal life principle, related to a kind of energy flows in the body.
Prana circulates through special channels in the body as a form of energy.
Chinese energy "Chi" with its energy meridians is an analog of the Indian prana, with its streams. Breathing exercises are crucial to the later "Kundalini Yoga".
People are always amazed trick with dropping the yogis in the ground for a long time, followed by "recovery". All functions of the body freezes in a peculiar state of yogic "hibernation" and turn into some other mode of operation.
Pranayama yoga breathing involves the conscious control of the process, but in future the focus of this volitional control will be significantly refined.
The aim of Pranayama in yoga is a stretching of the respiratory cycle time, or full termination of the respiratory process at some point in time.
Breathe - the only vital function of the body, admitting in a fairly wide range volitional intervention. In addition, it is - the process by which the simultaneous regulation of the contents of the two gases in the body - carbon and oxygen. Thanks to strong anthropogenic air pollution, respiratory system of the modern man has now become the weakest link in the mechanism of the automatic regulation of physiological processes.
All survived to us from the deep breathing techniques and exercises have the following common characteristics:
- Artificial breathing difficulties;
- Artificial delay;
- An artificial delay;
- Shallow breathing.
The above list exhausts all conceivable ways of intervening in the natural breathing process.
Oddly enough, the technician forced respiration history has left us - with the exception of yoga, where they are complementary to basic Pranayama.
We can therefore conclude that the therapeutic effects are only technique with a slowing of respiration, and the people it has been known for thousands of years ago. It is also clear that if, say, about half the people on the stage of development of yoga and tidying their health more shows some kind of a group of respiratory devices, for others they may simply be harmful.
In the science and practice today is known as the deep and shallow breathing, getting a consistent pattern, are deviations from the norm.