Sudarshan Kriya, pranayama, and meditation are techniques which channelize prana or subtle life force energy through the breath to relax your mind and bring you back to the source of your being.
We must take out quality time for the people we love, that’s why spending time with ourselves is most essential. The Sudarshan Kriya gives you an opportunity to spend time with yourself and to experience your true, peaceful nature away from the chaos of everyday life.
Your mind needs a break from thinking all day long. Meditation not only relaxes you but is scientifically proven to be beneficial for the human system. An eight-week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) showed how regular meditationincreased grey-matter in the brain, known to be important for learning and memory, self-awareness, compassion and introspection. It’s great to stop for some time and just be with your breath, which is instrumental to life. We usually take our breath for granted, just as we take ourselves for granted and run after the world.
I have been practicing the Sudarshan Kriya for a few years and I have experienced the difference. It’s been scientifically proven that the level of Prolactin,a well- being hormone, increases significantly after the first session of Sudarshan Kriya. The Kriya harmonizes your whole system by clearing out accumulated stress. Scholars have known for centuries that the breath is the link between the mind and the body, that each emotion has a corresponding breathing pattern. The reverse is also true, breathing in a particular pattern can induce a corresponding emotion. So instead of being overwhelmed by our emotions, we can transform them using specific breathing techniques. Throughthe Sudarshan Kriya we can learn to skillfully use the breath to change the way we feel, hence releasing negative emotions that cause stress, anger, anxiety, depression and worry. The Kriya then leaves the mind completely happy, relaxed, and energized.
What is important in life? What should be given importance? What are we doing on this planet? Why are we alive? What is the purpose of it all? Life is a race and as Prof Viru Sahastrabudhi stated in 3 Idiots, if you don’t run fast you would be destroyed. That is what we follow nowadays. Run! Keep running if you want to become something, if you want to be successful in life and if success means fame, power and money.
And so we run. We study the subjects we are told to, we compete to try to prove ourselves better than others, we forget that we are all unique. We do not pay heed to what we truly like and what we truly want to do in our lives and most importantly, we fail to realise that all of this is transitory, that nothing is going to stay.
There will be change and change will be the only constant. I followed the former philosophy. Now and then I used to question myself about all this but never found a clear answer. I still don’t have a clear answer to all of it. But when I did my first course four years back, I realized that there was something beyond the material world and going back to the source for just 30 minutes brings a terrific change in the remaining 23.5 hours of my day. I was calmer, more efficient and more focused. Each time I do the Kriya, I am reminded that I am not alone, I am protected, I am powerful and all that is happening is just a dream and I have to do my role to my best and enjoy the rest of the play. In those 30 mins, I am with myself, I am with my breath, and I am at peace.
Meditation and pranayama are important to lead a good life. We might think it unnecessary to take out those 30 minutes from our busy schedules, but it is what is most important to make our lives work for us.
- Nupur Anand
( We are sharing a series of articles contributed by upcoming writers on this blog. Many are experiences of people on the various programs of the Art of Living. Opinions expressed are their own.)
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