Meditation is a very important habit of calming the mind. A calm mind can lead to a healthy, happy and productive life. It can cure diseases and speed up healing processes. We explain the simple process below called prana-dharana. Prana in Sanskrit represents the air we breathe. It is a basic act of life that begins at birth and continues until death. But often, we cannot breathe until our attention is drawn to it. Dharana means its awareness. Prana-dharana means to use the mind in the flow of air when we breathe. The method is described below:
Sit in a meditative position. Common conditions are Siddhasana, Padmasana and Swastikasana. But if you can't do this, just keep crossing your legs. Your back should be straight and your eyes closed. Your knees should be neatly positioned. Do not bend your shoulders back. The whole body should be relaxed and the whole frame stable without pulling or pressure on the thighs, feet, knees, spine or neck. There should be no stretch in the pressure near the abdominal wall. Allow the abdominal wall to move slightly back and forth smoothly and effortlessly with each breath. Facial muscles should be relaxed and the mouth should be closed with a small gap between the two jaws so that the upper and lower teeth do not press down. Your tongue should touch the palate with a tip that touches the back of the upper front teeth. Make sure your lips, tongue or lower jaw do not move. Your eyes and eyelids should be tight and the muscles of the forehead relaxed.
All your posture should be comfortable, stable and comfortable. You should not feel stress in any part of the body. Now begin to develop breathing awareness. Air flow should be uniform, slow and smooth. Do not make any effort or use any control. Never hold your breath. Do not say any word or see a picture. This will calm your mind and help you gain peace
From earliest times, human philosophers have recognized the importance of the mind in governing human affairs. They knew that a person's outward appearance was a result of his own inner thoughts and emotions. They realized that if a person thought of wealth, he would be rich, whereas if thoughts were of poverty, success and failure would produce consistent results in one's circumstances. Today, modern science has acknowledged the truth of these findings. Thus, it is important for a person to control his mind.
Yoga has certain techniques related to the science of mind control. We will learn the nature of the mind as seen by yoga in this chapter. Shankaracharya described the mind in four different ways in terms of its functions: manas of solving and skepticism work; judging by decision and judgment; the asmita of knowing its individual existence and the chita of remembering a previous experience. The mind is a vast collection of thoughts and traits of the past. When you are born, your mind is a collection of samskaras collected in addition to the previous birth. Those samskara, whose ripe fruit has been wiped clean. But as you grow older, new samskaras are constantly being added because of the various actions you take from birth to death. This translates to the law of karma which states that the events of a person's life are the result of past deeds and his mind at birth contains samskaras from his previous birth.
Yoga recognizes five aspects, fundamental to the mind of everyone. They are called collages because they are the ancestors of all human misery. They are: avidya which is false information or ignorance of who a person really is in relation to things; the feeling of asthma or ego as in yoga, body and soul are two distinct elements; raga is a love of fun experiences; dvesha or disgusting pain; abstinence or fear of death. Yoga recognizes human behavior from the point of view of these five attributes that are thought to exist in the human body from birth and are regarded as mental impurity. They make a person unstable and angry. So yoga has provided a way for dhyana and pranayam to cleanse your mind.
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