Jalandhara bandha (chin lock)

"Jal" means "network" or "interlocking" (in the neck has a network of nerves and arteries, ascending to the brain). "Dhara" means "upward movement". 

When Jalandhara bandha internal and external carotid arteries, located on both sides of the neck and carry blood to the brain, under the pressure of compressed. Jalandhara is also pressure on the sleepy axillary nerve. All this affects the blood pressure, slows the heartbeat and the movement of nerve impulses to the brain, which calms the soul. 

Jalandhara Bandha follow this: 

1. Sit in a comfortable position, preferably in Padmasana or Siddhasana (see Chapter 8) (useful it will firmly rest against his knees on the floor), and put his hands on his knees. Close your eyes and relax. 

2. Take a deep breath and hold your breath. 

3. Without straining the neck muscles, Discharge head forward and press down firmly on the chin, the neck cavity between the collarbones. That's good stretches the cervical vertebrae, which, in turn, stimulates the nerve centers, relieve cranial nerves and beneficial effect on the thyroid gland. 

4. Hold the lock as much as you can without severe discomfort, then disconnect it, raising his head and exhale. Do this exercise ten times, gradually increasing the number of repetitions to twenty. Hold your breath until the lock is open and no head is not raised. 

Jalandhara Bandha should not be done without the guidance of professional people with high intracranial pressure or heart disease. 

When viewed from the esoteric point of view, then from the Sahasrara Chakra through the hole in the sky to the Manipura chakra flows and stomach burns with fire delicate nectar. Jalandhara Bandha prevents the nectar to disappear, so the body accumulates the elixir of life and life is prolonged. 

Jalandhara Bandha can also be done standing, legs apart by about 60 cm, bending the torso forward, resting his hands on his knees and straighten hands.

Bandhas

Bandha means "lock". This name also belongs to the postures in which some parts of the body are taken under control and compressed in some way. It is important to use bandhas at the highest levels of Pranayama, because without it you can harm the nervous system and may cause the body "Pranic short-circuiting. I do not accidentally quote a comparison with the electrical circuit. Electricity is on the chain, which can operate normally without causing any harm, as there are transformers, safety plugs, wires and switches. Without them, the current current can be fatal for us. 

Bandhas "locked" prana, to prevent its diversion to direct the flow of prana energy to the destination, which concentrated yogi. Bandhas also help unite Apana with Prana and send a powerful Pranic flow in sushumna Nadi to awaken the kundalini shakti. Apana - it prana (vital energy force), directed downwards. It operates in the area from the navel to the anus. Her role - give, throw, to send out, it controls ejaculation, defecation, urination, digestion and reproduction. In addition, Apana directs the Kundalini up in sushumnuddya reunification with prana. You can do so that prana can not flow upward due Jalandhara bandhas (chin lock) and Apana not be able to run down because muladkhara bandhas (anal lock). This makes the Prana and Apana unite and flow into Sushumna.

Offer your food to God

Being a vegetarian - so do good work, take a step to the purification of body and soul, but for the purification of consciousness is necessary to devote his food to God with love and devotion to God first tried it and blessed the food. It will also help you remember the day of God: "If someone presents me with love and devotion a leaf, flower, fruit or water, I will accept the gift" (Bhagavad Gita 9:26). 

Cooking - acts no less important. When we buy and prepare food deliberately, with care and love, then its preparation connects Prana. Obviously, between the taste of food cooked with love and food, which the cooking without love, there is a difference. 

Below I will talk about how to cook, how to offer it as a gift to God for blessings, and how glad she ate it. 

First Keep a few natural, high quality herbal products. Thoroughly wash your hands before you enter the kitchen. Wash fruits and vegetables. When cooking, always use only fresh produce: do not mix the remaining ingredients from fresh as well as those that you offer a gift to God, should not be offered to him again. Do not try to prepare food: now we are preparing for God, and he was the first to try the food. Finally, when the delicious food prepared with love and devotion, dedicate its source of life (God), Creator of all things. 

Now spread a nice meal and get ready for a meal. If you eat meals with family or spiritual friends, can join hands and meditate for a minute or two with your eyes closed. However, you can pay a prayer to God. 

Prayer, which I use for many years, I heard from my teacher Sri Kriyyanandy (disciple of the Paramhansy Yogananda). You can use it or think its: 

"Light up, Lord, His light food that we eat, because it - Yours, filled it with His love, His power, His divine life. Om, Amen. " 

By offering the gift of God, food, begin to eat it in silence. Eat slowly, chewing it before swallowing. Do not forget that digestion begins in the mouth. 

After graduating there, sit five or ten minutes in Vajrasana (on the heels with relaxed hands on his knees). This position removes blood from the legs to the stomach, promoting digestion.

Yoga Diet

Vegetarian diet is essential to those who seek a spiritual life. If you really want to grow spiritually and to rise from an ordinary material life to a higher spiritual consciousness, you need to observe a vegetarian diet. The fact that there is food, which contributes to a more subtle work of the mind and body, but there is also such that it reduces consciousness to the animal level. 

Yogi prefers such food, which updates almost no body loads of slag and stress, giving the soul a calm, clear and exalted state. Cleansing the body and soul goes hand in hand with spiritual rebirth. Vegetarian diet contributes significantly to lofty thoughts, meditation on the divine, as well as meditation and compassion. 

Yogi shows compassion and respect for all living things, as described in the Bhagavadgita: "The humble sage, by virtue of their virtuous knowledge is equally applicable to pundit (teachers, clergy), cow, elephant, dog and hog dogs (pariahs). 

Yoga diet consists of foods that grow in natural conditions - it is vegetables, herbs, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains, legumes and some dairy products. Yogi uses these products either in its natural form or in that which makes them suitable for easy digestion with minimal disruption to your prana (life force).

Children Yoga : The habits of sitting in our childhood

In the course of life, we also accumulates habits - harmful, beneficial, different. Yet precisely those habits that are laid into us with a small age, shape our character, attitude toward themselves and the outside world. 

Good Habits - a pledge of harmony with oneself and others. All parents vigilantly monitor the health of their child, and, of course, everyone would like to see as an adult, our children with the same vigilant about their own health. 

Immunize your child a good habit - yoga. In your power to do so. After all, you teach him every day to brush your teeth, wash and do a lot of other necessary things. Let exercise that will provide invaluable benefit to health, will also become an integral part of his regime of the day, part of his personal hygiene. 

An illustrative example in this respect may serve China - a country where the sport has a leading role in shaping the health of the individual and a healthy nation as a whole. Perform the exercises of qigong and wushu friendly company in the courtyard of his home for the Chinese as commonplace as for us to sit on the bench, watching the child. 

Through yoga you teach a child to control his body and control the thoughts. This yoga will develop body and mind in harmony. 

- Inspire a child to engage in something possible only through the game, and certainly not in the role of an observer! - Tells kids yoga instructor Natasha Volkova. - In a lot of yoga asanas, depicting various animals and birds: "Fish," Stork "," Crocodile "," dog "," kitty ". Children are interested, it is easy to arouse interest in studies. At the same time, it is useful dynamic and static asanas of yoga. The child is in fact no matter how valid or that asana on the body, but it increases its interest in the outside world, develop powers of observation. Of course, children's yoga is more soft and playful, adapted for the perception of a certain age, individual characteristics of the child. The simplest example - a small change in the title poses: child nicer to perform a pose "grasshopper" than "locusts". The meaning remains the same, but for the perception of pleasant and cheerful. 

In the classroom Natalia is asking children ages 5 to 9 years of age to concentrate on deep breathing, basically they breathe at random. 

- During the implementation communicate, exchange experiences with your child, be on equal terms. It is under this condition, you will be easier to use a competitive time, which operates smoothly - Natalia advises parents to independent home exercises. - Follow the general rules simple: move on to lessons on an empty stomach or after a half or two hours after eating. To drink, if not milk and its derivatives, can be 30 minutes before class. Execution time of each posture can vary depending on the abilities and temperament of the child. But (!) Never let your child be in a position longer than this time, because posture can cause strain. Take breaks to relax. It is not necessary to perform the lotus position, stand on his head and other difficult poses, such as upside-down, which are contraindicated for children with breach of intracranial pressure. Be responsible - do not be lazy to consult a doctor. The body of the child grows, develops, and we must understand clearly how to perform exercises. From simple to complex in yoga can go for years! If you are not confident in their knowledge of asanas, ask for help from the instructor. 

Today we offer you two postures to develop flexibility. Do not forget, we carry out together! 

Cat Pose 

1. Stand on all fours, hands and feet shoulder-width apart. 

2. Breath, bent his back and draw in the belly, but omit the head between hands, tyanemsya chin to the chest. 

3. Exhale and sags in the back. Raise the head and look up. 

All three movements are one. Clearly adhering to the sequence, make up to five times. Slowly, without jerks or sudden movements, like a kitten. 

In addition to strengthening the back, spine, this exercise charitable impact on digestion, toning muscles. 

Crocodile Pose 

1. Lie on your stomach, legs wide apart in the most part, the foot turned outwards, arms straight and extended forward. 

2. Ruki put under his head. 

Repeat up to 5 times. Therapeutic effect of posture: soothes breathing, massages the abdominal cavity, which again is well affect digestion. 

Develop and improve your child, instilling in him a love for physical exercise in childhood, and then the sport will be an integral part of his life. Health to you and your children!

Osho - Meditation Vipassana

By the Buddha was Vipassana, Vipassana - means the witness. He found one of the greatest of all existing facilities, means to monitor breathing - just observe your breathing. Breathing - this is a simple and natural phenomenon, and it happens 24 hours a day. No need to make any effort. If you repeat a mantra, you have to make the effort, you have to force myself. If you say: "Rama, Rama, Rama, you have to constantly strain. And you need a lot of times you forget. Moreover, the word "Rama" - again something of the mind, but nothing mental can never bring you beyond it. 

The Buddha discovered a completely different angle. Just observe the breath - the incoming breath, overlooking breath. 

There are four points for observation. Sitting in silence, just start to watch the breath, feel the breath. In the first point of breath is. Then, at the moment when the breath is entered, it stops for a split second, is the second point of observation. Then breath turns and goes out - this is the third point of observation. Then again, when the breath came out, for a split second it stops. This is the fourth point of observation. Then start breathing again ... - A range of breathing. If you can watch all these four points, you will be surprised, amazed at the miracle of such a simple process - because the mind is not involved in this. 

Observation - this is not the quality of intelligence, surveillance - is the quality of the soul, consciousness. Observation - this is absolutely not a mental process. When you're watching, the mind stops, stops. Yes, at first many times you forget, and the mind will go and start playing the old games. But each time, as you remember that I forgot, no need to feel remorse and guilt - just come back to the observation, again and again to monitor breathing. Gradually the mind will interfere less and less. 

And when you can watch the breath continuously 48 minutes, you will become enlightened. You will be amazed - just 48 minutes? Because you think that it is not too difficult ... just 48 minutes! It is very difficult. 48 seconds, and you many times you become a victim of mind! Try to do it, holding the watch, at first you can not be observed for 60 seconds. A total of 60 seconds, one minute, many times you fall asleep. You will forget all about observation - observation and the observer will be forgotten. Some idea would lead you far, far away, then suddenly you realize ... you look at the clock and see that it has been 10 seconds. 10 seconds, you're not watching. 

But little by little ... is a skill, it does not practice this skill - little by little, you absorb it. Because those few moments when you're watching, full of such subtle beauty, such immeasurable joy that, once having experienced the taste of these moments, you will want to return to them again and again - not in order, or other motive, but because of the sheer joy of being in the observation be present in the breath. 

Remember: this is not the same process which is performed in yoga. In yoga, this process is called pranayama, is sovrshenno another process, actually the opposite of what Buddha called vipassana. In pranayama you breathe deeply, filling his chest with air, more and more, then you lay waste the chest as possible, from carbon dioxide. This physical exercise - good for the body, but has nothing to do with vipassana. 

In Vipassana you should not change the rhythm of its natural breathing. You should not do long, deep breaths, should not breathe in any way differently than they do normally. Let the breath is absolutely normal and natural. All of your minds should be concentrated at one point in the observation. 

And if you can observe the breath, you can start to watch and other things. When you walk, you can see that you go when you eat, you can see that you eat. And in the end you will be able to observe that you sleep. The day when you can see yourself sleeping, you will be transferred to another world. The body continues to sleep, and then proceed inside the brightly lit light. Your observation remains undisturbed. Then the 24-hour continuing undercurrent monitoring. You continue to do things ... for outside world, nothing has changed, but for you everything has changed.

Meditation on the development of levitation

In general, it looks like this - form a significant force field and it put an object that has its own field (eg, an electromagnetic coil with a built inside the power supply). Spherical shape, cut, and which is a circle - the oldest, which could bump mankind in virtue of certain matches, or research. It is the most stable and easy to use, and because of the format used world - almost universal in application. Circle - is a classic version of the use and construction of energy fields, so it is the most versatile and "love" of humanity. As for the closure of contours of various shapes - a pentagram - a typical example of such a circuit. He has a so-called "zones of tension" - the angles through which energy can go outside. 

Consequently, and subject, being inside this education in 90 cases out of a hundred subconsciously cross this path in the corner. However, most would be a paradox that while crossing a path through the straight line people will feel like a slight turbidity in the head (particularly in the eyes). When crossing the same figure through the corner - this cloud will be observed. If the transition is not directly through the point angle and very close to her, turbidity, so to speak, will be observed only from the straight line contours. As for the circle, he has by virtue of its form, such 'zones of tension "it does not. As a result, and the problems arising from its intersection with "started talking" man. Hence morality, - for such procedures will be most effective in the circle, ie spherical shape of the field. Everything else is most effective for their specific use cases. I mean the creation of bulk enegostruktur in the form of various geometric shapes. However, spherical, in principle, is universal for all occasions. Then the effect will be on the circumstances - if the field lines of both fields the same direction, the effect of levitation will occur - the opposite will be observed the effect of "pressing" on our experimental object in the ground or stand trial. If the same field lines do not match - the object will levitate, and it will appear the greater, the greater the force field of the object. Let's just say - by analogy with the two pieces of the magnet, which attracted in the same position, and the other are repelled. As a result, we have rights or any other object levitated, "based on the Earth's energy field. Therefore, in this case the question of "weight loss" subject, and in cases of actual levitation acquisition of properties "lighter than air" (figuratively). Now, about the procedure catching witches in the Middle Ages. There was a mass of the criteria on this matter vary in different cities and dioceses. Ho is common to them was a trend - "underweight" subject / st. At the same phenomenon based Fathers and medieval inquisitors in their tests. Is based is not the next, sorcerer, magician, witch or any other person in some form or another has attained considerable success on the basis of practical forms of the occult sciences, in greater or lesser degree becomes a conductor and the carrier of energy early. Consequently, increasing their energetic nature, which is a consequence of increasing the circulation in the structure of the human biofield extra energy flows (or the ability to involve them as appropriate or reaction to the stimulus in the form of, say, the image of the crucifixion, increases energonapryazhenie a witch), thus creating around themselves, among other things - additional raznoprirodnoe energy field, which by their nature interacts with the energy fields of the planet. The stronger this field, the "weighs less" subject at all, or in moments of exposure to the "stimulus-antithesis. Nor here can be attributed to the ability of some witch, or adherents of different schools, if necessary by means of various rituals, mantras, spells, or simply a consequence of a deliberate opening of additional energokanalov in their body, levitate, and enough to move freely in any direction you want him, not to mention have the ability to become invisible by the elementary or transfer this ability to anyone was using a specially prepared and created for the purposes of these items. In principle, the process of "changing the polarity" is as follows. As you know, people (as well as any other material object) includes two elements - dark or light or the material and spiritual. Here's to you and the pole + / - a magnet. If a person is living material, it will never "take off" - he has too great attraction force him to Earth because of the coincidence orientation fields. If a person on the contrary seeks to something spiritual, sublime, spiritual starts he has to prevail over the material, as well as the repulsive force over the force of gravity to the ground. And he has a chance to "fly", not to mention the fact that it gradually, as his spiritual growth "losing weight". Do not mention the fact that the greatest religious figure, or simply persons who have attained enlightenment in your life path, it is levitated in moments of religious ecstasy, breakthroughs of consciousness to the next level, merging with the Divine / the Absolute, ie almost climactic moments of outbreaks of enlightened consciousness, what there are many historical examples from the chroniclers. Accordingly, and hence the belief that "bright man die better. Indeed, - bodily shell will not be a barrier at the death of a man and "soul" can easily leave the body, rushing upward. At the time, especially the black magicians for a long time suffer and suffer, trying to die and need some procedures to help them "burdened with evil," the spiritual body of material to leave the shell to the end of his life becoming almost easier for most of the "soul" of such rights. This is - of course not entirely in cash, but to levitation has the most immediate importance. 

Weight is lost due to the interaction of fields. As they say, - weight - no more than a property of a specific object in a particular situation (with different attraction it may be different), while, as the force of gravity is constant. Therefore, with the help of levitation, we neutralize it is the property of weight. The object ceases to weigh anything or just gets a negative weight due to the fact that it ceases to operate the force of gravity, which gives proper weight to the property in each case, and begins to act repulsive force, it had always affected, but in this case would be prevail. A similar phenomenon can be observed by the way, and in conducting measurements at different depths - such a man, placed in a very deep shaft will weigh a few grams less than the man who stands on the earth's surface. Where do these few grams of human weight? Answer - neutralized the power of pushing, which immediately begins to act on the man since his "immersion" into the ground. At that time, as if we put the subject in a cave in the empirical center of the earth, he would weigh nothing at all and no problems have hovered in the space of the cave, as in zero gravity, or the contrary - would be pushed out with little force to the surface effect that attracted to him was no longer what. It is possible that a similar effect of balancing forces "would occur to him before - before reaching the center of the planet - somewhere in the middle. But the fact remains - confirmed almost at the beginning of our century. As far as our case, the weight and antives - no more than incidental properties of the interaction forces, formed a kind of interaction fields, changing relationships where we can get interested in our results. Therefore, the nature of levitation is precisely in the nature of interaction with the human bio-field energy field of the planet, allowing a person to overcome the gravity of the planet. Accordingly, returning to the question "explosions in the stratosphere," - these things only possible in the case of very strong "potential difference" vzaimodeystvuyuschihpoley, resulting in up to 100% to overcome Earth's gravity. This has been very difficult due to the fact that the human body would not survive the gravitational forces of such power much sooner, resulting in, simply to "burn" like a wire, which missed too much current. The man would in a normal situation just stuck in the same position and at such a height, when the force of gravity of the planet would be sharing it with the "buoyancy" force of the contact field. And this is not too high. If the act by a desperate tension own forces and the barbaric use their own internal energy resources. And if you bring additional forces from outside - a proposal of possible effect of burnt wires. He would fly off, - but "high" while trying to catch would be on the rise - a feeling it would be such that it gradually burst all the cells of the body, with the pain and the destructive process grew in proportion to "incremental" energy flows. So do not be left to us from your subject into the stratosphere - a heap of torn almost in the dust (I exaggerate - to this would not come, but until barely clinging to the bones of knackered bits oozing pus organics completely), the meat would have flopped back to earth in owing to the inability to serve and continue to guide energy flows. Man would have died earlier - on pain of shock or broken brain cells (they are more tender than the rest of the cell body) - but the corpse off a little higher before the start of complete collapse. So the explosion would have happened not due to pressure drop, but due to too much energy flows through the body. In principle, possible option that such a body would be frozen in a certain area of the balance at high altitude and it would bore all the fields and villages, but only with a very shaky case, so consider it, I will not here. So once again resume - the ability to levitate is determined by the achievement of exceeding the capacity of human energy field of the planet's energy fields and due to this fact - achieve their ability to overcome the force of gravity of the planet by neutralizing a person's own weight, or to obtain a state antivesa.