[BST] Fwd: some modification in shoonya pranayama

[Gopal Krishna]

perhaps, some fo you may find this useful.

 

Thanks,

Gopal

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From: Gopal Krishna <gopalkrish...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Subject: some modification in shoonya pranayama
To: sarvoday...@yahoogroups.com

Hi brothers,

 

Shoonya Pranayama modified version below:

1. Inhale and then exhale completely (at a medium speed) for 5-10 rounds.
2. Now, have a complete inhalation and then a normal exhalation and then start exhaling breath forcibly as rapidly as possible without putting any strain on the body. Throughout this step, inhalation is passive and happens on its own. When you get tired up, go to step 1 to start 2nd round.

Do total 5 rounds just before starting your meditation practice or whenever mind starts wandering too much during meditation or work.

Pre-caution: Pregnant ladies, heart patients, high blood pressure, extremely weak patients and pre-teen children should not practise it. Rest all can practise it.

Internal breath-retention has been replaced by 5-10 rounds of complete inhalation and exhalation as internal retention makes the mind a bit feel less natural. So, this modification will work better. Please try it and see how it works.

 

2nd point - now, to deal with procrastination, I use the following quotes/thoughts:

 

• A lazy person is like an animal. A person doing work in constructive direction is a true human and a person doing work in destructive direction is worse than animal.
• How is a lazy person like an animal? Animals need constant whipping or other external force before they can be put to work - look at the example of horse, buffalos, oxen, etc. So, if a person cannot work without some external force (of deadlines or pressure from others), he/she is behaving like an animal (like a bufallo).

How to use this to motivate yourself - whenever you feel laziness or lack of self-drive, repeat above thoughts and ask yourself, "Are you a human or are you an animal that you need some external pressure to get motivated for work?", then say "No, I am a self-driven human and always have full self-motivation to work." If you do it sincerely, your procrastination will evaporate into thin air.

 

Thanks,

 

Gopal

 

 

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