Breathing

As an interim "definition", I will just give some links to relevant posts of mine (which saves me searching my blog every time I want one of these):

• updated visualisation: https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/01/post-no-2366-more-on-visualisation-to.html; 
  
• alternate nostril and cleansing breath: http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/breathing-exercises.html;
• Complete Breath, alternate nostril and staying warm: http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/for-winter-staying-warm.html;
• "auric breathing": http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/auric-breathing.html;
• chakra-related breathing exercises: http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/secret-science-of-hugs.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/colour-visualisation-and-breathing.html, ;
• preparing for when one no longer has a body, and thus cannot do breathing exercises: http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/random-thoughts.html;
• breathing and rejuvenation (I am now lucky to get anywhere near even 11 breaths of these exercises a day): http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/weekend-and-breathing.html;
• Complete Breath and alternate nostril exercises: http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/what-do-i-do-next.html;
• breathing to help build word associations and thought forms: http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2007/08/superheroes.html.

See also: 

• http://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/11/tonglen.html  
  

My source for breathing exercises was initially (1970s) the controversial, discriminatory, and questionable Lobsang Rampa, then William Walker Atkinson (under a pseudonym of Yogi Ramacharaka), both of which I consider likely sourced from South Asian traditions such as pranayama. 

Paramhansa Yogananda is also a source.

I also learned from Pema Chödrön, and recommend her books quite highly.

 

 

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