9-bottled wind breathing practice

It is a pranayama practice from the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition. Breathing exercise cleanses the three main energy pathways in the body.

Please use it in the beginning of a meditation session to calm and clear the mind.

BENEFITS

Reduce stress and anxiety as it calms and centers the mind
Clean obstacles in subtle body
Improve and regulate both the cardiovascular, digestive and the respiratory systems
Heal and purify the nervous system
Boost energy levels
Increase the volume of the lungs and oxygenate the blood
Improve sleep

Sit down into meditation posture
Visualize that your body becomes as clear as crystal
Close the mouth and using the index finger of the left hand to close the left nostril
Inhale slowly (slower the better) through the right nostril, imagine that all of space inside your body becomes filed with light
When the lungs are full, hold the breath and relax the body as much as possible
Hold the breath until it is comfortable
When the breath can no longer be retained, exhale it as forcefully and quickly as possible through the other open nostril
Repeat this process 3 times (this is one section)
Start the next section by changing the nostril (close the right nostrils and breath via left nostrils)
Repeat this process 3 times
Last section is breathing without covering any nostrils
Repeat this process 3 times

When you're upset, you breathe rapidly, shallowly and irregularly, but you can't be upset if your breathing is slow, deep, quiet and regular.

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