How To Use Breathing And Yoga In Spirituality

Here’s how to use breathing and yoga in spirituality:

Yoga, at its core, is a spiritual practice predicated upon effective and efficient breathing. During a yoga practice, you not only bring alignment and coordination to your physical systems, you’re also creating a connection between your mind and your physical body with your breath. By focusing on the areas where you need the breath most, usually following tension, you develop your ability to perceive what each part of your body requires for healthy function, plus increased awareness of any ailments that need attention. The mind/body connection also develops your sensitivity to the subtle energy of the body, called prana. Breath into that light, feeling more radiant in each breath.

Yoga breathing (or pranayama) –typically involves long, deep inhales, active exhales, and focused awareness, following the breath in and out of the body.

This allows you to calm the “money mind” chatter in your mind and open up to the subtle dialogue that your physical body has with the mind..

As the universe fills you with air on the inhalation, it also replenishes you with prana – the energy of the living things that surround you. But if we’re to receive this energy, you must first make space for it in within yourself.

Much of yoga is about removing waste from the body to prepare it for spiritual experience. With every exhale, you remove from the body what is no longer needed, physically in terms of carbon dioxide and energetically in terms of stale energy and negative emotions. ? As you exhale, settle your awareness and once again notice any sensations present in your chakras.

As you exhale, settle your awareness and once again notice any sensations present in your chakras.

Yoga breathing also unites and integrates all of the body’s systems to assist with the overall elimination process, thus bringing you closer into a state of sukha – good space.

Send your breath to all your body’s outer edges, and flood all the inner space of you. Experience your body as you do so as the temple of your spirit, a sacred vessel always seeking to support you

Breathe more deeply and fully.

Breathing is the single most vital part of meditation.

It is essential that you learn to focus upon your breath if you want to make the most of your meditation practice. Take in several long, deep breaths. Follow each breath with your mind. Imagine each breath flowing through your body, out through your lungs and out through your nostrils.

Learn to cultivate a sense of awe wonder and at the miracle of your breath.

See every in-breath as an empowerment and affirmation.

View every out-breath as a healing release.

Visualize your awareness flowing down from the mind to your heart center, as if there is a golden flame there that illuminates you.

Much can be achieve with concentrated breath and using chakra breathing techniques.

Yogic breathing like this can:

Release toxins, stress and tension.

Enhance mental clarity.

Improve digestion.

Help regulate your weight.

Improve your well-being.

Make your respiratory and digestive systems work better.

Increase the circulation of your lymphatic fluid.

Help speed recovery after illnesses.

Increase oxygenation of your blood and heart.

Improve your blood circulation.

Reduce congestion throughout your body.

Increase the flow of oxygen to your brain and eyes.

Give your immune system more energy.

Help your tissues regenerate and heal themselves.

Create more energy for your body to detoxify and heal itself.

Make your nervous system calmer (less nervous).

Help reverse your anxiety.

Help balance the two sides of your brain.

Help you move easier.

Reduce your muscular tension.

Increase the flexibility and strength of your joints.

Eliminate your excess fluids.

Reduce stress on your organs.

Allow your body to naturally cleanse.

Improve your mental observation and concentration.

Increase your productivity and learning.

Aid better decision making.

Improve wrinkles due to improved circulation.

Help create more beautiful skin.

Relax your body.

Reduce your feelings of stress.

Release endorphins, the natural painkillers that create natural highs and easier sleep.

Create more self-awareness and self-love.

Lead you to a healthier life.

Deepen your meditations.

Increase your creativity and intuition.

To get minimal benefits from it:

Do it for ten minutes in the morning.

Do it for ten minutes before bedtime.

Do it throughout your day as you can.

Also use some slow, alternate nostril breathing.

For maximal benefits, intuitively increase its length and frequency.

P.S. Anything else that YOU would add?

The author, Dr. John B. Charnay, CEO of Charnay and Associates in Greater Los Angeles, is a leading life coach and career coach. He is also a top manifestation and law of attraction coach. He has extensive experience teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels at leading universities throughout the greater Los Angeles area, including USC, UCLA, CSUN, FIDM, Woodbury and Pepperdine. Additionally, he is a top fundraising advisor and an award-winning public relations professional who has been a strategic PR and philanthropy advisor to many famous celebrities and Fortune 1000 CEOs. To meet him and ask for his support, invite him to be LinkedIn (email in profile) and contact him today!