Yoga CURES PAIN

Sometime back I found a good article in Times of India on Yoga and Pain, which is a good article to read.

Have you ever had the embarrassment of a pain that moved around in your body?
One moment it was constricting your heart, the next burping and belching from the mouth or out the anus as rectal gas, finally settling down to a nagging ache in the head, lower back, or the hip?

If you have, then this information is vital for you! Here is the answer that you have sought...

Much pain is caused by chemical reactions in the body producing gases that shift around and cause what appears to be many types of pain and different diseases. The patient isn’t sick, he’s toxic and the gases must be released in order to gain a cure.

Yoga has a specific answer to the problem in the Pavana Mukta Asanas and Kriyas. P avana, which is the Sanskrit term for all types of body gases, including rectal gases while Mukta means ‘to free’ these gases.

What Is Pain?
Pain can arise from a number of sources of the body, from emotions and from faulty thinking. Injury can cause real pain. Tension may cause refractory pain. Anxiety and other neurotic thoughts can produce psycho-somatic pain. Pain may also be felt in certain hysterical states.

Pain may arise from hunger, overeating, eating the wrong foods, or, from diseased conditions that are interfering with the chemical changes of the body in the process of metabolism.

Specifically, pain is an unpleasant sensation or feeling associated with or resulting from some injury, overstrain, tension, derangement or obstruction of physical powers, like movement of a joint or muscle group, or restriction of the normal activity of an organ.

Distressing or conflicting emotions are often the cause of, or accompany, physical pain. Pain is a most general term. More descriptive terms are; ache, throes, pang, twinge, stitch, cramp, jab and throb. An ache is a long lasting pain usually dull rather than stabbing or sharp, and usually associated with a particular body part such as a stomach, head or tooth.

Throes are violent, usually convulsive and relieve pain without loss of tactile senses, but do not deal with the cause of the problem only giving a temporary relief from the crisis of the pain. Yoga does not offer pain killers, but rather a method to get at the relief of conditions creating or sustaining the pain.
Breath Cycle >>

Breath Cycle For All Of The Pavana Mukta Asanas



Each of the variations of Pavana Muktasana are done in the same breath cycle. Two full rounds of breath are used for each single action.

One needs to lie flat on the floor first. On the in-breath, the knee (or knees) is raised and clasped with the hands. The head is raised (or lowered in the sitting postures) after the breath is expelled with a whoosh.

The breath is again taken in with the fullest, deep inspiration possible and the knee pressured to force internal barometric changes releasing and shifting the gas. The leg is returned to the starting position on the next outgoing breath. This final act may be done with another whoosh out of the breath is desired.

The leg should be flung out rigidly, then returned to the floor. This rapid action often relieves sharp, painful conditions that may not be relieved by the more passive form. The breath cycle can be like in Savitri Pranayama where the count is 8 by 4. Eight beats for inspiration and expiration. Four counts for the held-in and held out breath (8-4-8-4).