Pranayama

Ecology of Human Being in Multidimensional Space / Pranayama

Pranayama

Working with energies within the body and within the cocoon that surrounds it is the task of raja yoga. And the first stage of raja yoga is pranayama, which is translated as working with energy.

Sometimes this term is incorrectly interpreted as breathing exercises. This is an atheistic error. In reality it is the energy of consciousness that gets moving during pranayamas, but one may perform this — for convenience — keeping time with one’s breath.

The part of consciousness that is working during pranayamas should transform into white flowing light. We wash away all areas of bio-energetic contamination located within our bodies with this light; it results in general improvement of health and elimination of various diseases. Also the consciousness itself turns into a mobile and active power.

Now we describe a few general purifying exercises of the pranayama type.

Stand up. Bend slightly to your right so that your right arm is hanging freely without touching the body. Try to feel your arm thoroughly from the shoulder joint to the wrist. Imagine that a pump chamber, to which “air”-light is being fed through the arm like through a hose, expands and contracts in the chest with every inhaling and exhaling. Special attention should be paid to the exhaling. Try to achieve the clarity of feelings. The “hose” should be as thick as the arm and nothing should prevent “air”-light from moving freely inside it.

Perform the same exercise with the left arm, and then with each leg. The “hose” to each leg should come down from the chest through the corresponding side of the body.

Place images of two vessels, for example, barrels, under your feet. One of them is empty; the other is full of white liquid light. Touch this light with your foot-hose and pump it through the body-pump into the other barrel. With each inhaling the pump chamber inside the body and the head is expanding, drawing the light from the full vessel through the leg. With each exhaling the chamber is contracting, the light pouring out through the other leg into the empty barrel. The light cleanses the whole body from inside.

When the barrel with the light gets empty — fill it up again and overturn the content of the other barrel into an image of fire so that all dirt that has streamed out burns. Turn the body around over the barrels and repeat the exercise.

After that repeat the same, placing the barrels under your hands.

In this way you should attain a feeling that your whole body is filled with bright white light.

The room in which pranayamas are performed should be lit by either natural sunlight or by filament lamps. Fluorescent lighting does not fit for this purpose: it has a very unfavorable energetic impact on the human organism.