Attain the Calm and Quiet Mind Through Bhramari Pranayama

It has become absolutely essential for all of us to be calm and quiet in view of the tensions and mental stress caused by various sources in our present day to day life. If you cannot achieve that, you will invite diseases like high blood pressure, mental depression, head aches, migraine etc. one can certainly attain the much needed calmness by doing some simple breathing techniques, known as pranayama. These techniques, if practiced on regular basis, would certainly keep all the diseases away from you till you attain the age of 100 years, which is the normal prescribed age of the human beings as per Hindu Vedas.

The Bhramari pranayama is the most suitable pranayama for attaining mental strength in terms of calmness and sharpness. While doing this pranayama, please sit in padhmasana on the ground, keeping your both thumbs in touch with the first finger, and resting both your hands on each knee. Keep your eyes closed and try to concentrate mentally between your two eyes on the forehead. You will be able to see some light there by doing proper concentration. Take couple of slow and deep breaths and be ready to start performing this Bhramari pranayama. Breathe in through both the nostrils till your lungs are completely full of fresh air. Cover your both the ears with respective thumbs and your eyes with the middle three fingers of each hand. Position your first index fingers on your forehead. Make sure to apply very slight pressure while covering eyes and ears. The second finger of your hand must touch the point between the eye and the nose from either side with very little pressure. Concentrate on your Ajna chakra, which is situated between your two eyebrows in the forehead. Close your mouth tight. Start exhaling slowly making buzzing sound of a bee with mental recital of " AUM". When the exhalation is complete, the bee's sound will stop. Repeat this exercise for around 10 to 25 times, depending upon your capacity. This pranayama is not a stress generating pranayama. Hence, it can be done for more time if you wish. However, if you will do this pranayama for a very long time, say for around 40 to 50 times, you will feel isolated from this world and there will be total peace in your mind. But, you may not be able to immediately switch over to your daily routine activities after doing this pranayama for some time. Hence, It is better to restrict this pranayama for maximum 25 times in each sitting of a day.

The mind becomes steady, calm, and quiet by doing this pranayama. It is the most ideal pranayama for the patients of high blood pressure and the heart. This pranayama is the basic step for doing meditation and going in to Dhyana. One will be able to take big, critical decisions after doing this pranayama as the thought process becomes sharp and clear by doing this pranayama. The persons at the highest management levels can surely derive maximum benefits from this simple breathing exercise. While doing this pranayama, always think in your mind that you are able to see a divine light inside of you, which is your soul. The immortal cosmic energy is generated inside your mind by practicing this pranayama. It can also improve your eye site by reducing the eye power. The yogis and the meditation experts use this pranayama to enter in to deep Dhyana, in which you can forget everything about time and the physical world. Doing this pranayama regularly on daily basis may also benefit the persons who are getting depressed quite often. The individuals can achieve the anger management quiet effectively by doing this pranayama. As you are already aware, the anger is the worst enemy of the human race.

When this simple breathing exercise can bring us so many benefits by only investing around 10 minutes per day, then, is there any reason for not practicing it? I would strongly urge all my readers to immediately start doing it. I am always available in case anybody has any doubts on this.