Yoga-Meditation= Stress Relief Part-III

Pose of Hatha Yoga

Mastak Sanchalan- This is head exercise with other individual parts of the body movement, like neck, ear, head etc. this exercise is very helpful to prevent Spondylitis. Sit on the ground folding keens, called Babu Asana. Now keep your two hands on the waist and rise up your solder and touch the lower portion of ears, breathing normal, 1.2. Like this 1 to 10 count and back to relaxed mood. This way 5 times practice this; in earlier stage, it may not be easy to touch ears, but long practice, it is easy. After that, again hold your waist by your two hand strongly, rise up the upper portion of your arms, now start to move your head first clockwise 5 time and anti-clockwise 5 times, then stop.

Anti-clockwise body movement- this is one kind of asana. Here is also sitting is normal. Hold your left keen with your right hand and move the upper portion of the body at the right and count 1 to 10 and stop; again hold right keen with left hand and move the upper portion of the body at the left and count 1 to 10 and stop. This way practice 5 minutes. This exercise is very helpful for the flexibility of the spine.

Now again lie down, and hold your waist strongly with your two hands and gradually try to rise up your legs from waist and count 1 to 10 and stop and lay down and take full breath. This way 5 times practice. In the beginning, legs rom waist will not rise much, but regular practice, it will be easy to lift. Now, fold your right leg from keen with hold your right leg with two hands and try to bring the folded leg up to your belly, count 1 to 10 and then stop, take full breath and again fold your left leg from keen with hold your right leg with two hands and try to bring the folded leg up to your belly, count 1 to 10 and then stop, take full breath; this way practice 5 times a day. This is helpful for easy movement of waist.

Now, you again stand up on the ground.  Lose your hand from the solder and try to move it clockwise 5 time and anti-clockwise another 5 times and this applicable for next arm also. Now you hold strongly your waist by your two hands and move your waist clockwise 5 times and anti-clockwise 5 times. but one thing will remember that, all this yoga practice is applicable for fit persons only; if anyone has physical unfitness, then don’t practice all these without doctors’ permission.

As I said earlier that meditation and yoga both are inter-related. Modern Yoga is called Power Yoga which only helps to build a muscular body. But in earlier concept, yoga build strong body (not muscular body) and meditation build strong and controlled mind. Thus these two thinks make a perfect human being.

 ArunUdaya- Meditation is very helpful to reduce stress. How is this meditation? In the early, when sun is rising, the entire atmosphere is look very pleasant, calm and quiet. This is the right time for such meditation. Sit in an open place, that may be the roof of the house or any other place where nature and the person can be linked. Sit on soft grass is very much effective for this asana. Fold your legs from knee and keep the hips on the heels. Sit straight keep the spine straight. Keep both hands on the folded keens; the entire body load will carry toes of both feet. Look straight and face will be something up; then, the brightness of sun is little bit soft than other time of the day. Concentrate your mind, close eyes and try to focus on your forehead.

Gradually, take long breath and try to spread the same to every corner of your body and hold the breath for a moment and thereafter release the breath up to your stomach level.

Yoga & Meditation- both are inter-related

Dandayamana Asana-Yoga

In my earlier blogs I have already said that yoga and meditation both are inter-related. Yoga makes human body stronger and Meditation makes human mind stronger. Now the question is how these are two interlinked? The answer is strong Yoga health carries a strong mind.

Once I heard that human body is like a temple and god lives in this temple. So that built up this human body healthy carefully; because, healthy human-beings are the assets of all society and also for the nation.
It is fact that in comparison of physical strength men are stronger than women, this is not the mistake of anyone; the all mighty power has created them like this way. It seems that men will protect women; but in practice what we see; male has been dominating women era after era. Men think that women are their property and they can do anything with them; if we search the history of all human- societies, we will get enough evidence. Just go to Google all-knows search engine and type any human-history; you will get enough evidence of male-dominating history. I am not feminist; but I believe the co-existence of men and women in the society. I believe in inner-power of all men and women that supply us by the all mighty.
Yoga and Meditation are the only solution to improve that inner-power within us. Yoga does not built-up our body like a bodybuilder; it increases the inner strength of the body. The regular practice of yoga keeps us away from almost all chronic diseases.

In my last blog I have written about Virkshapot yoga which leads us towards deep meditation. Now I am telling about the Dandayamana Aasana. What is this Dandayamana Asana? This is very simple at beginning stage.  I have already told about the yoga and meditation normal dresses in my earlier blogs.

Now I am telling about this asana; this is very normal asana for the beginner. Stand straight on your feet; back straight, front straight. Look straight, touch both knees from side; both hands in namaskar mudra, this way stay two-three minutes. Thereafter, hold left side of nose with left hand and take breath through right side of the nose, this way hold right side of the nose and take breath through left side of the nose. Thereafter, hold both sides of the nose with two fingers of one hand and take breath through open mouth. Normal breathing means, oxygen taking up to stomach level and release the same up to stomach level. You will feel stretch in your stomach.

Now you hold the waist strongly by two wrists of hands and slowly and also gradually bent the upper part of the body (up to waist) and count 1 to 10 numbers. 1 to 5 times does this way. Now rise hand up and close your palms like clap mudra; then slowly bent your upper-body first at right direction and then left direction. Thus your body will feel stretch at upper portion of the body and up to stomach and also back portion of the body. This aasana will help to keep good the digestive order of the body, something spine injury and little bit high blood pressure

Dandayamana Asana-Meditation

This Dandayamana Asana is also helpful for meditation. After completing the yoga; stand again straight on feet. Keep two palms close like namaskar mudra. Close eyes; try to collect pieces of mind from every corner and make it one-mind and then concentrate on the forehead with your one-mind and thus try to forget the worthy world. In the earlier stage three-five minutes are enough for meditation through Dandayamana Asana.
After completing the yoga and meditation process through this Dandayamana Asana; lie down on the floor straight and take normal breath. Thus the body will feel relax and free and very comfortable for the day.

Process of Meditation-2

Meditation-Sitting Mudra

Another thing is proper dress for meditation according to me, loose and light dress is always preferable. Some people prefer to take a bath before starting their meditation; it is good, but not compulsory . Swami Vivekananda would like to wear Bengali Dhoti which is as long as ladies' Sharee and one Chaddar or Uttario to cover the upper body. Lord Buddha would also wear all these cloths before starting meditation. In the case of other people, little loose trouser and little loose Sando-Bennian can be used.

Next matter is hair. This is also very vital for meditation practice. In the case of men, hair size will be very small or medium and the back-brass hair style is preferable. Women can tide their hair with hair-bands and the back-brass hair style is too preferable to them.

Thereafter, face is also a vital matter in the case of meditation. In the case of men, face will be clean-saved and before starting of meditation face will be washed with fresh and little cool water. In the case of women no make-up is preferable; they will also wash their face with fresh and little cool water too. All these process are helpful for built-up deep-mind-concentration.

Tension free mind is very essential before starting of meditation. Before starting of meditation, keep away all tensions, anxieties and start collection of pieces of mind from every point and try to make it one-mind; as a whole, forget the worthy world and try to think all positive and such a world where everything is positive.

Sit on the floor crossing two legs. Knees should touch the floor. Back should be straight. The positions of the head will be  the straight and little up. The back will straight and front will little bit forward;in this position take normal breath two-three minutes. Thereafter, both hands will keep on the knees and stay two-three minutes with open eyes looking forward ; normal breath.

At this sitting position take full breath and hold one second and realize the breath entirely just taking little inside the bally. This procedure will follow two-three minutes breath taking and realizing through nose shutting the mouth. After that, another two-three minutes follow this procedure; this time nose will close with hand and breath will take with mouth, full breath taking and realizing system. 

Process of Meditation-1

Bunch of Roses-Happy Life 

Why meditation? Often I face this question; reply is different.In ancient age, Indian saints, monks would keep them engaged in mediation only to achieve their worshiped God or Goddess.They would continue their meditation year after year until they would achieve their target.Thereafter, time has been changed, now God or Goddess seeing is almost impossible.One myth of the world is that nothing is easily available in this world.From the spiritual point of view, meditation is one kind of self-purification which would lead ancient saints and monks to rich very close to their worships.Sree Ramkrishna Paramhangsadev was the famous Bengali worshiper of Goddess Kali and World famous saint Swami Vivekananda was his direct disciple.One day, when Vivekananda was ordinary young young young, called by his nickname, Naren, asked one question to Paramhangsadev that he had seen Goddess Kali or not; Paramhangsadev replied him quickly that he had seen his worshiper Kali as he is seeing to Naren.

I suggest that regular mediation is necessary for all; it gives, two ways benefits, one is mind- control which may be called self-purification and second one is, regular meditation, it keeps our daily health fit and fine.

If you search for Google search engine, you will find huge different opinions and ways of meditation; but my style is something different. All of us have seen sitting-Buddha's statue; this is the world famous image of Lord Buddha. I prefer this kind of image is ideal examples of how to meditation.

In the case of meditation, sitting style is very essential.Most of the people of Asian countries are preferring to sit on the ground or floor instead of sitting on the chair in their normal life.It may be something difficult for western people to sit on the ground or on the floor as they are not habituated in their life.In such cases cushion or foam mat can be used.But foam-mat size will be bigger or sitting on carpet may be used. 

All this options are optional; because meditation is the process of practice of controlling of human-mind . According to our Indian epic Mahabharata, Yudhistir, the elder son of king Pandava and also the eldest brother of Arjun, once had been asked by the God Dhramraj in disguise of a bird that what the fastest thing in this world is, then Yudhistir replied within a moment, human's mind is the fastest thing. So that,control of such speedy mind is not a matter of a joke, even such a very negligible matter can break the mind- concentration practice.

I personally prefer to sit on plain and clean floor for meditation practice at the primary stage.It may be uneasiness for western people at the early stage; but in practice, they will be habituated.

In my next blog of this episode, I will discuss some relevant matters which have also value in meditation.

Meditation

Meditation of  Lord Buddha

Meditation and Yoga are the basic of Eastern Asia mostly of India . In this  article I will write about meditation .
In ancient time Hindu monks were done meditation in various lonely places like deep forest , inside of caves of the hills only to achieve their beloved God/Goddess . Such of their meditation would run year after year ; during such meditation , they did not take any food , only meditation as called akhanda-dhyan .
In ancient age of India , God would also do meditation . The dhyan-murty of lord Shiva is very popular with Hindu shastra . Lord Shiva is the image of super natural power , he has nothing to require by mediation . Still he would do meditation , why ? Because to keep the balance of nature of the world .
What is meditation ? This is the best way to control of mind by oneself . Why we need such control of mind? Because , our mind is being disturbed by the worthy society . It is believing that , every human being had two minds , one is good and second one is bad . The bad mind is always trying to capture the good mind by its' evil power . Meditation is the cleaning process of the rust on the mind .
Commonly , the place of mind is at the abdomen . Thus are very freckle to move and very much affected or inspired by the evil power of the worthy society . Most of the time it moves ups and down and thus our mind is become very freckle . Meditation is one kind of soul refreshment .
How do we meditation ? First of all sit on the ground with flexible cloths coverings entire bodies . Fold two legs from knees like asan-mudra and keep the both hands strait on the folding knees , close eyes , imagine- the flame of a candle light in front of the closed eyes . Entire feeling should be centralized to that imaginary flame of candle light . During this period of meditation , only calm and quiet atmosphere is required , otherwise , at the initial stage , concentration will be disturbed and meditation will interrupted .
Daily one hour meditation on regular bases is essential for us . We have to find out this one hour of our daily busy life for meditation . This is not only built strong positive mind keeping away from any bad effect of the worthy society , but also it prevents us from various health matters , like blood pressure , mental depression and also from anxiety , fear . Meditation increase the mental strength thus we can resist any undo matter of the society . Meditation makes us rational and teaches us to love nature and also mankind .