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Understanding 馃尫 Prana

Sivananda Yoga Farm 路 6:36

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Prana as subtle life force energy vital for happiness
  • The five ways to work with Prana: increase, conserve, balance, channel, and purify it
  • The connection between Prana and the quality/power of one's thoughts

Ideal for

  • Beginners to yoga philosophy
  • Individuals seeking to understand subtle energy concepts
  • Anyone interested in self-development and mental clarity
  • Yoga practitioners deepening their theoretical knowledge

Lesson

Instructions

In this talk, Swami Sitaramananda explains how we can think about and understand the concept of 馃尭 prana. Swamiji explains that prana is a subtle energy that is important in our life for us to be 馃寛 happy. Swamiji tells us the 5 things that we can do with prana. First, is to 馃挴increase our prana. Second, is to conserve and not waste our prana. Third is to balance the prana. Fourth is to 馃挆channel the prana, or use it correctly. Last, is to purify the prana or 馃敂increase the power of the prana to a higher wavelength.

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Steps

  • Conceptual understanding of Prana management
  • Principles for increasing subtle energy
  • Strategies for conserving and balancing inner energy
  • Methods for channeling and purifying energy for higher thought

Benefits

  • Increased happiness and overall well-being
  • Greater mental clarity and focus
  • Ability to generate more powerful and positive thoughts
  • Improved energy management and conservation
  • Deeper understanding of the self and life force

Transcript

so you have the lung five things about prana okay the first thing is to how to increase your like money how to make more money okay how to increase but then how to conserve how to keep money in savings and you can have a lot of prana and then you can spend it in a moment so here you are here for four weeks basically you increase your prana okay and then you store your prana that's why I'm why on the day off we tell you to pay attention because you can increase prana for one week and you go out for a few hours and you spend all in a moment okay so not only increasing but also conserving is an art okay we will talk about that and then what else you need to do hmm you need to balance the prana because some people has a lot of prana in one aspect and no prana in another aspect let's have they have a lot of prana in the intellect in the mind there all the time thinking thinking thinking thinking a lot of prana yeah but they have no planner of the heart yeah and they don't feel anything they are all blocked yeah nothing moves there so this imbalance in prana okay you see children when you play with children you are very tired very quickly why they have a lot of prana yes but their prana is not balanced yeah so then you are you're tired okay so in yoga very important to learn how to balance your prana yah ha-ah so we will talk about that another time the balancing of prana but today we will talk about how to increase prana how to conserve prana and then what else you need to do you need to channel the plumber that means you need to use the prana the market you use the primer the more you have prana you know this yeah the same with money you have to use money then you make more money you know that yeah the same with a car if you have a car if you have to use a car and the car will be good and they keep if you keep using the car but if you keep the car in the garage now you're afraid to to use the car and then the car become problematic yeah so the same of prana you're born with prana mmm prana is your life force there is the gift of Mother Nature to give you to live your life yeah to live your life mean how to eat your food or to think how to make decision about your life how to enjoy your life all these are the gifts of nature okay by the prana or the life force I've been given to you okay and yeah you need to use it let's go channel the prama and you need to learn how to channel the primer how to use the prana in such a way that you get more prama okay and then and the last thing is you need to purify the primer yeah what is beautifying the prana now it'll make the prana become more a subtle okay what's up lik more subtle okay so just to give an example mmm you can have let's say you can have a hundred dollars a one dollar bill one dollar bill you have a stack money that is 100 yeah but one dollar bill and then you have one one bill that is $100 okay so this analogy is just to tell you that you can you can generate many thoughts in your mind because prana is relating to top okay if you have lots of prana then the thought can have higher wavelength yeah if your prana is low the thought will be low over a wavelength I mean what the thought that you produced will always be negative okay but if you have a lot of positivity lots of prana then the top will be very powerful okay so you can generate hundreds kind of thoughts yeah but it's all very low okay not impactful not important so for example you are worrying yeah when you're worrying you generate a lot of thoughts what is this what is this on I should do this and that you do this like that your mind is all the time restless you have a lot of thoughts but you are low prana okay another person I have don't think too much meditate have few thoughts but their thought is like when they open their mouth like speak their thought has power okay so that's called purify prana I mean changing the top wavelengths and you need to do that as well okay so I summarize the five thing that you need to do prana one is try to increase prana now by your life side choice okay and try to conserve prana by your lifestyle choice we will talk about that more in detail and you can bring the ball over we can write and then the third thing you need to do balance the prana okay then the fourth thing you need to do use the pronoun correctly channel the prana okay what the fifth thing you need to do purify the prana okay

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
12 minutes
Equipment
none
Target areas
mindenergy systemspiritual understanding
Energy
balancing

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