Thursday, August 23, 2007

The importance of Relaxation

Relaxation of the body and mind are the key factors that make the art of breathing a successful exercise. Unless you are really relaxed you cannot enjoy the benefit of the art of breathing or the pranayama. Any hidden stress or tension or tiredness unknowingly pull you down and you cannot achieve the optimum results during the systematized breathing or the pranayama.
Therefore it is important and mandatory that you should expel all feelings of built in stress and strain in your mind and body and get yourself into a pleasant and cheerful mood before you embark on the breathing exercises.
Under such optimum conditions only, the ‘foul air’ or the carbon dioxide accumulated in the myriad cells of your body systematically gets expelled and the rejuvenating oxygen- rich fresh air fills up its place.