Secret Yogic Breathing Part 3/3

This can practiced by breathing through mouth or nasal passage. When air moves through different areas it generates some sound which can be shown below.

                        Inhale                          Exhale

Mouth             Aa                               Ha

Nasal               Um                              Hum

When we inhale, we suck air into our body and its pressure rises inside. After completion of inhalation i.e. Poorak, we hold the breath for a second in a state of Antrik Kumbhak. At this point the pressure of air is maximum inside. Now when we release air in exhalation it has a tendency to move out forcefully in most people. But yogis control both the inhale and exhale breath.

On listening to the inhale side through mouth we discern vibration of Aa but on exhalating through the mouth, we hear a sound of Ha instead, which according ones thinking is because of the excessive pressure built inside.

Similarly, when we inhale through nose this sound changes to Um on inhalation and Hum on exhalation, with more pressure on the exhaling breath as through mouth. One feels that inner pressure felt is more in case of nasal breathing, though it has not been mentioned in the text written by yogi. Therefore, one feels that people with higher BP etc. should not indulge in nasal breathing but rather breathing through mouth. One needs to check this aspect on various measuring instruments to be conclusive.

The Ha-kaar is the jeevani shakti or Pran shakti which we are losing in every breath. If we are able to conserve it then we will be able to live a full life. As per personal understanding, it means the whole sadhana of the practitioner is to convert Ha to Aa(mouth breathing) or Hum to Aum (nasal breathing). If we see it from the length of breath angle, then it is said that that the normal length of expiration from nose is a12 fingers. As our breath becomes more and more subtle this length starts decreasing and with each decrease in finger length of the breath, yogi is blessed with one siddhi. As his breath becomes subtlest, he just inhales from the tip of the nose and exhales at the tip of the nose only and he is called a Paramhamsa at that time when he has such a mastery on his breath. By this time his dependence on nature is almost finished and he is becomes a jeevan-mukta. One feels that as the Ha gets converted to Aa slowly, ones length of breath starts reducing finger by finger. Thus we can say that by following this Ajapa method breathing also same effect takes place which happened in reducing the length of breath from nose tip, though its one’s personal view point and not from the book of Dr. Ramesh Paramhamsa ji ‘I met Himalyan Yogi’…………………………Om!  

 

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