A Meditative State

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• A Meditative State: The Practice Of Dhyana...

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• Breathing Techniques For Yoga: Reunite with your breath...

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A Meditative State- The practice of Dhyana

Even though Dhyana sounds and looks like Dharana, the previous limb of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, it is slightly different. Dharana teaches us to focus on one thing, like the breath, a sound, or a mental image. Dhyana, on the other hand, makes us very aware without making us focus on anything.

So, Dharana asks us to focus on one thing, while Dhyana teaches us to look at that thing without judging it or getting attached to it. Instead, we look at it in all its colors and shapes in a deep, abstract state of meditation.

In English, the term "mediate" is frequently used to indicate "to think," but in yoga, meditation is a powerful sense of unity with an action or an object.

As a result, meditation becomes a state of being rather than something you actively DO. The distinction between what you're doing (breathing, repeating a mantra, or employing a light visualization) and what you are dissolves as the boundary between them blurs.

Our thoughts, emotions, and desires diminish during Dhyana, and our state of doing merges with our state of being, much as the term "yoga" means to "yoke" or "union with." Dhyana is the practice of "true" meditation, the state that is attained when you forget that you are "meditating." Subject and object merge into one.

Here is a beautiful video that explains Dhyana in more detail:

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Breathing Techniques For Yoga - REUNITE WITH YOUR BREATH

Begin each of these energy-balancing breathing exercises from a stable, balanced, upright seat. You may want to start with several rounds of Dirga to settle the mind before trying one of the other pranayama practices. After you finish, sit quietly and observe sensations in the body.

Dirga Pranayama (Three-Part Breath)

Inhale deeply through your nose, first expanding your belly, then your rib cage and chest. Exhale through your nose, guiding your breath out from the chest first, ribs second, and belly last. (Visualize your breath pouring into and out of the torso like water in a glass. Place your hands on your belly and rib cage to give yourself a connection to the practice.) Repeat for several rounds or several minutes.

Kapalabhati (Skull Shining Breath)

Inhale and pause. Contract your abdominals as you completely exhale out of your nose, drawing your navel in and up. Completely relax your belly and allow your breath to be vacuumed back in passively. Continue for multiple rounds at your own pace and intensity. When you’re ready to end, inhale deeply through your nose. Hold your breath for a moment, then exhale and come back to your natural breath.

Anuloma Viloma (Alternate-Nostril Breathing)

Rest your left hand on your knee in Gyan Mudra and bring your right hand into Vishnu Mudra—first and middle finger folded toward your palm; thumb, ring finger, and pinkie extended. Use your thumb to block off your right nostril. Inhale through your left nostril, and pause your breath for a few moments. Then block your left nostril with your ring finger and exhale out your right nostril. Inhale through the right, pause, then block your right nostril, and exhale out your left nostril. That’s one round. With each round, allow the inhalations, exhalations, and pauses to lengthen. End with an exhalation out of your left nostril.

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