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.

Meditation makes mind strong-2

Vriksh-Pot Yoga

Rabia- was a divine female character. She belonged to Middle-East. In my childhood, I heard this story from my grandmama. Rabeya was a slave. She worked very hard, since from the very early morning her work would start and it would be completed at the mid-night. After that, she would get chance to use few hours for herself; after reaching to her hut, she would start her meditation and gradually it would reach to the deepest level of meditation as she would lost her present existence.

One day, her master came to know from his sources that one very special light come out from Rabia’s hut. On hearing this, her master himself went to her hut hidey and opened the door and became surprised to see the heavenly atmosphere. What did her master see in her hut? Rabeya was sitting in very deep meditation and a big circle of bright divine light was reflecting behind of her and that divine light spread in every corner of the hut and even out of that. Thereafter, Rabia’s master set her free from her slave and allowed her to go anywhere as she liked to go.

This story has revealed us the strength of meditation. The power of meditation reached her at the top level of mankind.

It is my believe that all of us are created by supernatural power to reach up to the level of mankind that we can carry the baton of the supernatural power and decorate this universe more and more beautiful that the next generation can use with pride after us.

I believe that the increase of unwanted activities within our society due to the increase of evil power of human mind. Fear is the common weakness of human beings. It resists protesting the evil activities of the society. We can stop all the evil activities that are going on surrounding us daily which has created threat level of atmosphere within our societies.

First of all we have to throw out such fear from our mind and it is possible through strong and regular practice of meditation.

Food is also very effective for constant meditation. Hot food is avoidable. Normal and regular food, fruits are always preferable. These kind of normal foods are very helpful to keep mind peace.

Little empty stomach is also help to keep concentrate the mind. Overeating is not advisable for those who actively do meditation on regular basis. Because, overeating diverts the mind towards the downstream. Little empty stomach helps to easy digestion of food.

Yoga and Meditation, both are inter-related. In ancient age, most of the monks, saints were very good yoga specialist. They had mixed up yoga and meditation together and created a new dimension.  One of such pose is Vriksha-Pot. Virkshapot means stand like a tree. This is a famous asana in yoga. This type of mudra or asana is not easy to practice. In this aasana, the person will stand straight on one leg, then lift two hands up and joint two palm like namaskar mudra, right leg will touch the thai of another leg, face will little up, eyes will keep straight according to face; after that, stand on next leg and do the same. Indian monks, saints would  stand like that way and it is saga  that they would stand like this way year after year and even era after era only to get visit of their worshiped God. From the yoga point of view is this Virkshapot mudra or asana is very helpful for physiques and also digestive and keep formation of abdomen.