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Conscious control of the breath is the key to realizing all the benefits of any asana. The harmonious coordination of inhalation and exhalation creates a wave like motion of effort and release in the nervous system, which leaves you feeling more relaxed and energetic both in body and mind after just a few minutes. There are three main types of breathing abdominal, clavicular breathing and chest. We are concerned principally with abdominal breathing, which is essential to ventilate the major part of the lungs. On each inhalation, the diaphragm contracts and moves down against the abdominal organs, pushing the stomach out and drawing air down to the bottom of the lungs; and on each exhalation, the abdomen moves back in as the diaphragm relaxes, gently pushing against the base of the lungs and squeezing the air out. Most people practice only chest and clavicular breathing in daily life. Even medical doctors and professional athletes are practice regularly.  The main reason for stress is control centre for the nervous system, becomes tense as do the abdominal muscles, which then prevents the natural movement of the diaphragm.  The other kind of reasons are body position in which the chest is expanded and the abdomen tight.

Raja yoga is basic practices for the purification of body, mind and spirit. It is the cultivation of purity, light and wisdom. While Yama reduces the desire and agitation and tama’s reduces the darkness and negativity. The practice of asana and pranayama also plays an important role in the eight step system of raja yoga.  Raja yoga unravels layers of dysfunctional emotional training, by transforming physical, emotional and conceptual habits.  Yoga is the suppression of the modifications of the mind. Raja yoga is used to remove the kleshas. Kleshas is the key to liberating ourselves from the human condition of mental suffering. They are five kleshas:

• Avidya is the primordial ignorance that takes the “non-external, painful, impure and non self as the eternal, pure, happy self or Atma.
• Asmita is the egoism or the false “I” created by pure consciousness which identifies with the mind and the body and then divides the world into objects to be consumed or possessed, objects to be avoided and objects of no interest.
• Abhinivesha is the instinctual fear of death that haunts all people, even the learned.
• Raga is the power of the mind to dwell on the objects that the false ego associates with pleasure.
• Dwesha is the opposite power of the mind to generate emotions of hatred and disgust for objects that the false ego associates with pain.

Purification occurs when we do yoga and meditation all day long putting the body in shape, putting the min in shape, putting the spirit in shape, putting the action in shape. We purify the body with the right kind of food and with exercise or asansa. We purify the prana with pranayama.  We purify the mind and emotions with mantra and chanting. We purify the intellect by listening to discourses or study of scriptures or enquiry into the nature of the self. We let go of our regular ideas and replace them with the light and with the truth. Instead of having dark thoughts, we replace them with the light and with the truth. So it we practice Serve, Love, Give, Purify, meditate then realization will follow. The word the realization means that the impurities are removed and we have the experience of meditation, both during the time we sit for meditation and outside of it. It means that when we meditate, we have the experience and feeling of calmness. We think that realization must be like being struck by lightning but inside we can see the changes. From this we can understand that we are not conditioned by this existence, by age, by our body. We call this the knowledge of immortality. Realization is the experiences that is touched by nothing and experiencing it all the time.

Yoga provides a foundation of emotional strength to become the master of our mind rather than a slave to negative emotions. The scattered and dulled rays of the mind are gathered back into the concentrated state. The higher practices of yoga then refine the concentration into meditation and finally to the highest states of Samadhi. Yoga is not just doing attractive postures and temporarily feeling more healthy and relaxed. It is a precise formula for transforming our entire lives from ignorance to truth from darkness to light, and from a life identified with the impermanent material objects to spiritual immortality.

• Yama is the ethical restrictions including non-violence, non-stealing, continence, truthfulness and abstinence from greed.
• Asana posture.
• Pranayama the breath control
• Niyama is used to develop internal purity including cleanliness or saucha, contentment, austerity, study of scriptures and self-surrender.
• Pratyahara is the abstraction of the senses.

Each of these accessories to concentration and meditation give yoga practitioners not only survival techniques for emotions into their positive potential of pure joy, discriminative knowledge and freedom. These practices are simple, but essential to bring about physical and emotional health. Knowledge of the unity of life cultivated. It is a spiritual gift of god.

Yoga is the mind without virtues is pure understanding, a mirror reflecting the Divine nature of the self. It is the emotional charge of the kleshas that generates the disturbing thought waves. The root Klesha, ignorance, is maintained by a vast network of roots of unconscious desires imbedded in the depths of our minds. We only recognize them when they swirl up in our consciousness manifesting as disturbing emotions such as arrogance, lust, greed, fear, jealousy, anger, hatred and prejudice. The emotionally charged vasanas sit like land mines waiting to explode into our conscious minds when they come into contact with corresponding sense objects defined by the ego as objects of raga or dwesha. The potent antidote for all of the kleshas is unbroken discriminative knowledge. With awareness, we can catch the mind from falling into negative habit energy of attachment and fear. With awareness, even if we slip into the pain generating habits, we learn to practice vairagya and the whole afflictive drama is nipped in the bud.  To maintain unbroken discrimination requires purity of mind and one pointed concentration. These skills are most difficult for the untrained mind and must be developed by step by step. If we are not mindful, the pastry attachment can become an addiction.

In modern life motor engines became more powerful and reliable one. The vehicles become more comfortable and safer to travel. In the year 1914 the first aircraft service began between Tampa and St Petersburg in Florida.  In 1909 was the first airship passenger trips began by the German delay company. It is the first international flights from Germany to Sweden. When we compare to Air Ocean the sea travel was slow but more comfortable. It is an coast to coast journey. The Panama Canal is the one of the longest canal. It is about 65 kilometer long and 90 meter wide.  In the year 1904 canard’s car mania was the first ocean liner to be powered by steam turbines. The first voyage of titanic is 1912 the unsinkable titanic ship hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of about 1,500 lives. As a result of the titanic tragedy the French discover the sonar device to detect the icebergs under the water.  The pings of sound waves send out by sonar device which travel through water at the distance of 1,500 meters per second.  When the sound waves hit the object it get bounce back  from the direction and time delay of the sound wave show the object’s position and distance.

We purify the mind and emotions with mantra and chanting. We purify the intellect by listening to discourses or study of scriptures or enquiry into the nature of the self. We let go of our regular ideas and replace them with the light and with the truth. Instead of having dark thoughts, we replace them with the light and with the truth. So it we practice Serve, Love, Give, Purify, meditate then realization will follow. They said serve, love give, purify, meditate, realize be good, do good, be kind and compassionate enquire about the nature of your true self. This is the essence of the teachings of all sages, prophets and saviors of the world. Follow them and attain self realization this every moment.  What is lacking in these people is the spirit of dedication. If you sincerely and whole-heartedly dedicate yourself to the divine cause, such situations as this one will never arise.

The important practice is the niyamas or observances such as cleanliness, a positive quality which helps us to have a clean mind. Negative thoughts and emotions create pain and ignorance. Ignorance means we forget who we are. We forget the goal of life. Negative thoughts and emotions are usually thoughts which involve I-ness and my –ness.  It means the body is no longer so important. For the person of average consciousness, the body is everything. We spend most of the time looking after our body. Every little aspect of the body is overemphasized, the hair, the eyes, the eyebrows, the skin, the nose, the lips, the teeth, the nails, the arms, the feet, the nails etc. the body becomes a monument, the purer we become the less interested we are in the body. They have a fresh start from god. But as we go through life, accumulation takes place in all of us. The body starts to smell. And because the mind is also made of matter, albeit of a subtler frequency, it also starts to smell. With an impure body and an impure mind the sense of taste also becomes impure. The desire to eat meat manifests. Meat actually appears to taste good, because it is served on a nice silver platter with various tools and toys such as table cloth etc.

Some of the treatments of arthritis are fish oils, pantothenic acid, cayenne pepper, cilantro and coriander, meadowsweet, maillot and wormed, stinging nettle, phlox and scrub pine, sunflower, columbine roots and comfrey roots, nutmeg and mace, herbal baths for aching joints these are the things which are used to avoid the arthritis. In fish oil arthritis is bought through chronic inflammation and it is decreasing both inflammation and the accompanying pain. The next one is the pantothenic acid which contain B-complex vitamin in rheumatoid arthritis patients. It was a significant reduction in the duration of morning stiffness in pantothenic acid. In cayenne pepper there are several types of treatment which is applicable for pain is known as a counter irritant. Using this treatment it makes a poultice by mixing the cayenne powder with enough water to make a paste and applying directly to the affected area. New studies suggest threat cilantro and coriander have anti-inflammatory effects. The pain of arthritis is caused by inflammation to make a medicinal tea, use one teaspoon of dried leaves or cursed seeds. Drink two or three cups a day after the meals. Herbs can be used to make compress the aching joints and bones.

Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S population age 18 and older in a given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder.  Everyone will at some time in their life be affected by depression their own or someone else’s according to Australian Government Statistics. Depression statistics in Australia are comparable to those of the US and UK. Pre schooled are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least four percent of preschoolers over a million are clinically depressed. Alcoholism, obesity and other addictive disorders are equally serious problems. Compared to eastern culture, western culture is both emotionally immature and imbalanced. Abstraction of the senses is the bridge between the external practices and the internal practices and ultimately leads to the supreme mastery of the senses. Because the ego provides a consistent perspective in a constantly changing world, it resists change. Concepts, attitudes, feelings, likes and dislikes, as well as name, titles, and relationships with individuals, communities, and material objects are all ingredients of the ego’s false identity. By seeking the pure self which is the source of light for the mind, yoga helps the intellect to detach from the ego’s habitual wrong understandings of the self, gradually thinking out the kleshas.