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March 2016

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July 2024

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Physics of breathing

It is a common saying that we should watch our breath to improve our concentration power or to reduce the frequency of thoughts in our mind during meditation practice. Concentration is nothing but to have all the thousands In our mind about a single object. Generally forty-fifty thoughts come into our minds in a minute and this frequency may further increase in a disturbed mind. And during concentration the number of thousands per minute reduces depending upon our concentration power. Our thoughts have a direct connection with our breath. That's why it is said that by observing our breath with full attention,we can achieve meditation. And meditation is nothing but to have a single thought in our mind about an object, to achieve it, nither we should fight with our thoughts nor we should involve with them. We should simply ignore them. And keep on trying again and again to bring our mind back on Breathing observation alone.

But did we ever observe that, there are so many physical elements in our breath, which can be observed during this practice of "Watch your breath"
To understand it better, first let's take the example of electricity which has two main elements i.e. current & voltage. And similarly the water and air also have these two main elements in another form of flow & pressure. If we further analysis the air. We find that it has few more elements like temperature, pressure and sound due to friction. Similarly our breath/ air also contains all these elements i.e. flow, speed, sound due to friction and its heat or warmness. All these elements can be noticed within our nostrils and within various other parts of our body, with due attention.
Thousands of years back, during their deep sadhana practice, our Rishis and Munis found that our breath had the sound of SOHAM. During Inhalation it sounds SO and during Exhalation of breath it sounds HUM. We can listen to the sound of our breathing Soham ,immediately after the fast breathing,cardio exercises, in any of the rest poses and the best one is savasan for that . Further We can also synchronize this natural sound of our breath Soham with our chanting of So-Hum mantra within the mind during the practice of breathing observation.
Similarly another important element of our breath is it's temperature.Which is also very helpful during the practice of breathing observation. The Temperature or the thermal effect of our breath can be felt within our nostrils. When we breathe in, during winter or under cold atmospheric conditions,we feel that the inner sides of our nostrils become cool during Inhalation and when we breathe out, we feel the warmness of our outgoing breath in our nostrils because of our inside body temperature, which remains more than the atmospheric temperature during cold weather. We should remain connected with our cold breath feeling from nose to throat, till we feel it's coolness. Once the breath temperature becomes equal to our body temperature and it's speed also slows down, we can't feel it's effect any more and it dissolves within the body.
One more factor of breath temperature observation is to compare both the effects of both the temperatures i.e. coolness of breath in and warmness of breath out, in our nostrils. By observing that during inhalation,how cool is our breath as compared to it's temperature with our outgoing hot breath.
During this practice of breathing observation, we can also focus on the length of our breath from the starting point of our nostrils upto the throat,in first stage. Where our breath becomes almost invisible. By going further down into our respiratory system,now we can start observing the pressure effect or the physical movement of various parts of our body. We find that finally our breath's effect stopes behind the navel point at the end of inhalation and after completion of exhalation, it stops outside in the atmosphere, few inches away from the nose. These two extreme points of our breathing are also used during the breathing observation process.
This process of breathing observation helps us a lot to prepare ourselves for savasana or yog nidra practices. It minimises the thoughts in our wandering mind. The most important body part to be observed during the process of our diaphragm breathing is our abdomen, mainy below the ribs and above the navel. When we focus on this portion of the abdomen during diaphragm breathing or even during normal breathing, it is observed that during Inhalation this portion of our abdomen comes up and during exhalation it goes down. For further improving in our concentration power in the process, we can synchronize so-ham mantra with this physical movement of the abdomen movement, by reciting SO, when abdomen comes up and saying HUM within the mind, when abdomen goes down.

We can syncronise various other mantras also like O:M, Ra:M, Pra:Phu, Vahi:Guru and even various words of gayti Mantra and Hare Ram- Hare Krishn mantras with our inhalation and exhalation of breath.

        Similarly the next body part for breathing observation is within the chest. During this practice, we should divert our complete attention within the lungs because our ribs & chest are  moved up and down by our lungs. During Inhalation, when our lungs push the ribs up we can say SO within the mind and when our lungs and ribs go down, we can repeat HUM within the mind. For better results, we should ensure that our breathing should remain absolutely normal during this practice and no efforts should be applied by us, for expanding the chest ourselves. Generally we do so, for better observation of physical effect of our breath on the upper surface of the chest.But by adopting this wrong practice of effortful breathing for expanding the chest, our thought process will divert from normal breathing observation to the pranayama practice. And our mind will also divert from it's ultimate objective of blissfulness..
Now another important place of breathing observation is within the breathing pipe. We all know that our breath passes from nose to lungs via throat. And we can observe it's very minute effect in our throat by focusing on the sensation of our breath within the breathing pipe. When we breath in, the sensation is felt in the upper portion of our throat and during exhalation process, it's sensation effect can be caught in the lower side of our throat.

At the final stage of breathing observation, we bring our complete attention within our nostrils and ensure that we focus on above said various elements of our breathing in absolutely normal and effort!ess breathing conditions ina comfortable pose. These breathing observation are more effective in savasana pose with two strong determinations in mind that, nither I shall sleep nor I shall thing anything outside during the process of my this observation practice.

      Finally, we should be very clear in our mind that once we reach the final blissfulness of our mind after such practices of breathing observation, all the elements of our breath explained above disappears from our mind gradually. Similarly, as once we reach the top of a roof with the support of any stairs. Those stairs through which we climbed the roof, are not visible to us. Moreover the observation of  all above said breathing elements, can be very helpful for removing the worldly thoughts from our mind and prepare ourselves practice of Savasan, yog nidra, meditation or even for any mindful task of our life.

Written by:- Ajay Srivastava H.no. 2724,H Block Sainik colony Sector 49 Faridabad 121001 INDIA Ajayogi (talk) 09:30, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]