THE YOGIC TREATMENT FOR ASHTHMA DISEASES

 

ASTHMA

THE THERAPY FOR ASTHMA USING YOGA INVOLVES FOUR STAGES, OR MAIN GROUPS OF TREATMENT. THESE ARE : 

1. ASANA
2. PRANAYAMA
3. HATHA YOGA
4. MEDITATION

ASANA

ASANAS LIMBER UP THE BODY AND TAKE AWAY STIFFNESS. A LOT OF ASTHMATIC PATIENTS HAVE STIFFNESS IS THEIR CHESTS. ASANA CAN ALSO BE USED AS A MILD FROM OF EXERCISE. HOWEVER, THEY HAVE MORE POWERFUL EFFECTS THAN THIS. THEY MASSAGE AND DIRECTLY INFLUENCE THE DEEPER ORGANS. THIS IS SOMETHING WE HOPE TO BE RESEARCHING HERE IN THE FUTURE. THE PAWANMULTASANA HAS BEEN PROVED, IN RESEARCH, TO BE VERY EFFECTIVE. IT CIRCULATES PRANA, HELPING TO MOVE THE PRANA IN THE NADIS WHEN THERE ARE BLOCKAGES. IT ALSO DEVELOPS AN AWARENESS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY, THE MOST IMPORTANT TERM IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA AND YOGA IS THIS WORD AWARENSS. THAT AWARENESS IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING.

PRANAYAMA

PRANAYAMA IS NOT BREATHIG EXERCISES BUT A METHOD OF GENERATING PRANA. FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ASTHMA, THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT, FOR PRANA REDUCES INFLAMMATION. THE BASIC UNDERLYING PROBLEM IN ASTHMA IS INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. TREATMENT IS NOT JUST A MATTER OF OPENING THE LUNGS, IT IS A MATTER OF GETTING RID OF THE INFLAMMATION. PRANA GENERATES, VITALITY, AND THE MORE VITALITY YOU HAVE, THE MORE YOU CAN OVERCOME AND RESIST VARIOUS STIMULI AND THE MORE STRENGTH AND STABILITY  YOU HAVE IN YOUR SYSTEM. VITALITY IS A COMMON WORD AND EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT ENERGY IS, WE KNOW WHEN CUR VITALITY IS LOW AND HIGH, BUT TO RESEARCH THIS IN A PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSE IS ANOTHER THING.

THIS IS WHERE YOGA CAN OFFER IN A BIG WAY, BECAUSE IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH PRANA. IT HELPS US NOT ONLY TO GENERATE PRANA BUT TO CONSERVE PRANA AND TO USE IT WHEN AND WHERE WE WANT TO, WITH AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUS CONTROL. PRANAYAMA ALSO DEVELOPS RESPIRATORY MUSCLES, AND THE MORE CONTROL YOU HAVE OVER YOUR MUSCLES, THE MORE CONTROL YOU CAN HAVE OVER AN ATTACK SO YOU WILL NOT PANIC, YOU WILL FEEL MORE CONFIDENCE. ONCE THE ASTHMATIC PATIENT HAS A BASIC GROUNDING IN ASANA AND PRANAYAMA HE CAN GO ON TO THE SHATKARMAS.

THE HATHA YOGA SHATKARMAS

THE SIX KRIYAS OF HATHA YOGA, THE SHATKARMAS, ARE A POWERFUL AND OFTEN UNDERESTIMATED TOOL. THESE KRIYAS CLEANSE MUCUS FROM THE  BODY AND ALSO HAVE POTENT EFFECTS ON DEEPER LEVELS OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY. THE SHATKARMAS REMOVE MUCUS FROM THE NOSE IN THE PRACTICE OF NETI AND FROM THE STOMACH IN THE PRACTICE OF KUNJAL WHICH HAS A REFEX EFFECT ON THE LUNGS. THERE ARE MANY EXPLANATIONS FOR THIS PRINCIPLE IN THE ORIENTAL SYSTEMS OF HEALING. THE CLEANSING PROCESS BALANCES  THE DOSHAS, KNOWN IN AYURVEDA AS THE VATA, PITTA AND KAPHA (WIND, BILE AND PHLEGM). AUTOMATICALLY YOU FEEL RELIEF, YOU FEEL LIGHTER, HAPPIER AND STRONGER IF IT IS ONE CORRECTLY. IN TERMS OF REDUCING INFLAMMATION IN THE SHORT TERM, THE SHATKARMAS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PRACTICES, PRANAYAMA REMOVES INFLAMMATION IN THE LONG TERM.

SHATKARMAS ALSO IMPROVE AWARENESS OF THE INNER CAVITIES. IN VASTRA DHAUTI YOU PUT A CLOTH INTO YOUR STOMACH AND CHURN IT AROUND, THEREBY BECOMING AWARE OF THE SPACE WITHIN YOUR BODY. GENERALLY WE DO NOT FEEL INSIDE OURSELVES, BUT WHEN YOU ARE PUTTING WATER OR CLOTH INSIDE THE STOMACH, OR SOMEHOW PUTTING PRESSURE IN YOUR BODY, THEN LATER ON YOU FEEL MORE SENSITIVE TO THE SUBSTANCES YOU PUT INTO THE BODY. WHEN YOU OVEREAT YOU FEEL IT MORE ACUTELY. IF YOU PUT THE WRONG FOOD OR SOME POISON INTO YOUR BODY. YOU KNOW IT IMMEDIATELY AS THE SENSIVITY AND THE AWARENSS OF THE INTERNAL BODY HAS IMPROVED. AT THE SAME TIME YOU GAIN CONTROL OVER THE BASAL PART OF THE BRAIN, THE ANIMAL BRAIN.

WHEN YOU ARE LEARNING TO VOMIT (KUNJAL), OR LEARNING HOW NOT TO VOMIT (VASTRA DHAUTI), WHEN YOU ARE LEARNING TO PURGE FROM YOUR INTESTINES, THEN YOU ARE DESCENDING INTO A LEVEL OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WHICH IS UNCONSICOUS. AS THAT PART OF THE BRAIN LIES NOT JUST THE CONTROL OF THE HEART, THE BLOOD PRESSURE AND THE LUNGS, BUT MANY OF THE PSYCHIC CONFLICTS WHICH ARE AT THE ROOT OF MANY ILLNESS. WE START TO PROBE VERY VERY CAREFULLY INTO THE DEEPER, PSYCHIC BODY OF OUR PERSONALITY, SO, CONTROL, OVER THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS AT THREE LEVELS, PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND PSYCHIC.

MEDITATION

• THE FIRST THREE STAGES LEAD TO MEDITATION. MEDITATION AFFECTS THE MENTAL SIDE OF THE PERSONALITY AS WELL AS THE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHIC SIDES.
• INITIALLY WE LEARN TO RELAX THE PSYCHIC PROBLEMS. WE START WITH THE MENTAL PROBLEMS, THE OVERACTIVE MIND, THINKING TOO MUCH. WHEN WE WANT TO GO TO SLEEP WE ARE THINKING THE NORMAL STATE FOR MANY PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE AND STRESS OF DAILY LIVING. SO INITIALLY, WE RELAX THOSE TENSIONS THROUGH MEDITATION AND A BALANCE COMES.
• ONCE THE RELAXATION TAKES PLACE, WE BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN AND STABILISE THE MIND. 

YOGIC TREATMENT IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT YOGA NIDRA, A DEEP RELAXATION PRACTICE WITH SYSTEMATICALLY RELAXES ON THE FOUR LEVELS-PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHIC. THE YOGIC PRACTICES SERVE TO EXPAND OUR AWARENESS, GIVING INSIGHT INTO THE CAUSE AND THE EFFECT. AS YOUR AWARENSS DEVELOPS YOU CAN SEE WHAT IS CAUSING THE ASTHMA. THEN YOU BECOME YOUR OWN DOCTOR, YOUR OWN HEALER.