Pranayama for health and happiness

Every one wants to be happy and healthy in life forever. Is it possible to achieve this?

"YES".

There is a simple way to do which keeps our mind fresh all the day long and stress free. Pranayama is the one which I am talking about.



Though there are several types of pranayama we should practice the following three in order to be happy and healthy everyday.

• Bhastrica Pranayama
• Kapalbhati Pranayama
• Agnisar Kriya

Let us see how to perform these:

It is advisable to do pranayama early in the morning (well before the sun rise) in an open place by sitting in a comfortable position. Make sure you keep your spine straight.

1. Bhastrica Pranayama - This is the simplest form of pranayama. Take a deep breath inside (inhale) and exhale out the breath deeply. Just do this for two to three minutes.

2. Kapalbhati Pranayama - Breath in deeply. Suddenly contract your stomach muscles to exhale out that breath. The next inhalation will be automatic. In this we have to contract the stomach to exhale the air. That's it. Continue for 10 to 15 times. Then take rest and then continue second round. we can do this for 10 to 15 mts.

3. Agnisar Kriya - This is somewhat like Kapalbhati. But instead of forcefully exhaling the breath we exhale it completely and then bring our stomach to back and forth continuously. We can do this for 5 to 10 mts.

Benefits:

The benefits are numerous. If we regularly follow the pranayama in the long run we would not face any issues related to physical and mental health. However I have listed down the inportant benefits below:

1. This keeps us brisk for the whole day long.
2. Stress will be controlled initially and then will be stress free later after some time of practice.
3. It destroys the fat inside the body. So this reduces the over weight. Especially for females, this gives a narrow hip.
4. All the biological functions of the organs are regulated. This is the major advantage for diabetic patients. If they do pranayama for 2 weeks and check the glucose reading, they will be surprised by the result.