Nadi shodhan pranayama helps to purify the pulse or do pulse resection. This is a very simple pranayama and very useful as well. By concentrating the mind, you increase its order.
Alom-Vilom is the first stage of Nadi Shodhan.
- Sitting in Padmasana.
- Inhale from the left nostril and exhale from the right, then fill with the right and release from the left.
- Similarly, practice it for 5-7 minutes.
- Do it multiple times to take a breath. It will take some time to exhale. Keep in mind that the flow should be the same.
- Once this is practiced, double the Rechak time.
The patient and weak person can take special benefit from this pranayama. It is the best pranayama for heart and breathing patients, which makes the mind calm and the nerves pure.
How to do Nadi Shodhan Pranayama?
- Sit down in Siddhasana, Padmasana, or Sukhasana. Calm the breath.
- Bend both the first fingers of the right hand and close the right nostril with the thumb and fill the breath with the left nostril.
- Close the left nostril with the fourth and fifth fingers and do inner Kumbhak for a few moments.
- Remove the thumb and exhale slowly through the right nostril.
- Then inhale with the right nostril. Close both nostrils.
- Then exhale through the left nostril. This happened to be a frequency of Nadisodhan Pranayama.
Increase the practice by doing this three to four times daily. The longer you have to stop breathing, the longer you can comfortably stop and when you exhale, slow the rate of exhalation. When this practice of yours is confirmed, make an order of breathing. If it takes 4 seconds to breathe, then stop breathing for 8 seconds and exhale in 8 seconds. That is the ratio of one, two, and two (1: 2: 2). Increase this ratio to 1: 4: 2. Here, pausing breathing is not compulsory.
Special things to be noted in Nadisodhan Pranayama are supplementation, a special proportion in the activities of Purak, Kumbhak, and Rechak, are not experiencing breathing at a greater distance from the nasal while doing Rechak.
Purak and Rechak do not simply mean to inhale or exhale. In the language of yoga, simple breathing and exhalation are called breathing. But in pranayama, the words Purak and Rechak are used, which means slowly and carefully inhaling and exhaling slowly. Kumbh means pitcher means to stop breathing like keeping it in the pitcher.
In the inner Kumbhak, when we stop breathing, we enlarge or inflate our lungs and fill them with pure air. The small holes and nerves of the lungs are purified and they get strength. When the exhalation stops in the outer Kumbhak, the lungs shrink and the impure air from them completely comes out, making the whole body pure, clean, and light and gives longevity.
Normally we immediately inhale and leave. In this way, pure air is not fully utilized in the body. The glory of proving Kumbhak is indescribable. Everyone knows that whenever we do something by force, we do it only by stopping the breath. Carrying any kind of burden, working hard, throwing a ball, firing a rifle, etc., all the work should be done only for a few moments, by stopping breathing. Through Kumbhak we can increase the strength of our body power.
Kumbhak, despite being simple, is not a difficult action, because it only involves stopping breathing. This action is giving extraordinary power. Doing Kumbhak in excess of the ratio, doing further action without making sure of the earlier practice, or not doing Kumbhak regularly and regularly does not benefit. Therefore, you should increase your practice carefully, slowly, and regularly so that there is profit, not a loss.
Benefits of Nadi Shodhan Pranayama
Nadisodhan Pranayama is good pranayama. It is particularly beneficial in neurological diseases, lung diseases, nervousness or weakness of the heart, etc. A person who has high blood pressure disease should not perform Kumbhak. He should only practice supplementation and Rechak. Gradually practice Kumbhak a little while the disease is cured. The center of meditation in the Nadisodhan Pranayama is the Anahata Chakra.
There is no need to practice several types of pranayama mentioned above daily. Practice Pranayama only by learning from a knowledgeable person. There is a fear of loss due to its excessive requirement. According to your physical ability, you should increase the practice gradually by choosing your favorable pranayama. Generally, to be healthy, do practice these asanas for 10-15 minutes every day.
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