Breath of Life
One of the best ways to amplify your immunity and activate your self - healing mechanism is with your breath.
It is known that bacterial organisms, fungi, parasites and viruses can’t live in oxygen rich environments, so if you are down and out with the flu, or you have a more severe illness, you need to amp up up your deep, yoga breathing. It’s a simple way to increase the body’s natural healing impulse.
Increasing your conscious breathing doesn’t just saturate your bloodstream with oxygen, thereby expunging diseased material from the body, it also increases the amount of prana in the system. Prana is life force. If you’re sick, you’re depleted in life force. Healing isn’t just about food molecules, and DNA and oxygen, it’s about prana. And this is also why deep breathing and breath work are so effective in healing both the physical and emotional bodies.
We are surrounded by bacteria and viruses everyday and we rely on our immune system to step in and “fight” when necessary. To be effective the body requires is jolts of prana, continuous lifeline to free up infinite energy. And actually, it’s possible to get a lot of prana from fresh organic plant foods. But the easiest fastest and most bio available way to intake more prana is through your breath.
I personally practice some amazing breath pranayama whenever I’m feeling as if my immune system is in jeopardy, or even if it’s simply lagging a bit. Like the practices we’ve learned so far in our Sadhana, you can do each practice for 3 to 11 minutes whenever you’re feeling low on energy or when you feel a bug coming on.
Having sensitivity to the breath is also also a powerful way to know when you are about to get sick or develop an even bigger illness. Developing pranic awareness is actually one of the first habits of a healthy human. Sensing disruptions in the pranic field, the field of life force that permeates the fabric of your personal space and time, will allow you to know something is off before it progresses into more serious illness or disease. The more sensitive and intuitive you become the more specific you can get about how that disruption would manifest if allowed to continue.
Immune system booster the inner sun
This is a breath, exercise for immune therapy
Posture: sit an easy pose. bend, left arm, raising your hand up to shoulder level, face your palm forward and touch the tip of your ring finger to the tip of your thumb. Make a fist with your right hand, but keep your index finger out. Gently block off your right nostril with your index finger.
Keep the eyes closed
Breath of fire
3 to 11 minutes
To end: in how deeply and hold the breath. As the breath is held, interlace your fingers just below your throat and try to pull your fingers apart. Hold the breath for as long as you can then exhale repeat three more times. On the last exhale shoot the breath out through up lips with your tongue curled back on the roof of the mouth.
Dog breath
this exercise brings energy to immune system to fight infection. It is a very healing exercise. When you feel a tingling in your toes, thighs, and lower back, it is an indication that you are doing this exercise correctly.
Posture sit an easy pose, or rock pose
Breath: stick your tongue, all the way out of your mouth and keep it out as you rapidly breathe in and out through the mouth in a panting, diaphragmatic breath
3 to 5 minutes
To end: and hold your breath for 15 seconds, and then press the tongue up against the upper pallet. Excel repeat this two more times.
