Understanding of yoga, from the cells began to

Single-celled plants, whether multi-cellular animals, all life in cells, the smallest unit cells of about 1 Mbps composed of the human body, also comes from a fertilized cell.

Cells, the main structure can be divided into the cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm of three parts, the membrane separating the external environment and internal environment. The outside of nutrients must pass to enter the cell membrane, once entered, the cell metabolism will be carried out will be necessary for the operation of nutrients into the energy of life. Metabolic activity to produce many types of waste must be re-emitted by the cell membrane.When the cell membrane of any functional defects, not the normal absorption of nutrients, or discharge of waste, the cells will be starving or poisoning, most will die. Observe this process of living body to absorb nutrients and help us understand the word prana. In addition to energy prana means life, you can also refer to life energy to bring this action.

Of course, but also complementary energy. In the yoga concept, complementary with the prana is apana, meaning of life what body discharges, and discharge of this action. Prana and apana two yoga-based terms,Described is the basis of life activities.

Perfect function must depend on a specific form can be revealed by the cell to the normal absorption of nutrients (prana) and the emission of waste (apana), must have certain conditions, for example, the structure of cell membrane material must allow smooth access. It must have a permeability, but not too transparent, otherwise the integrity of the cell wall damage, due to internal or external pressure would be too large explosion occurred, or implosion.

All life in the cell or body, the permeability must rely on the stability to balance,The characteristic of these two relative terms corresponding to yoga, namely, sukha and sthira. All successful forms of life must be stability and permeability, hard sex and plasticity, durability and debug nature strike a balance between space and the border.

Now we already know the basic concept of yoga --prana/apana and sthira / sukha, you can observe the cells in this life by the composition of the basic units to be clarified. Next, we will have to these concepts as a guide, to view the structure and function of the respiratory system.

Prana and Apana

The body's nutrients and waste channel, while not as simple cells, but it is not complicated to difficult to understand.

As shown on the right is a simplified version of nutrients and waste channels. The upper and lower ends of the human system, each one opening, when we solids and liquids prana or life energy intake came from the system to the top, it will enter the digestive tract, after a series of digestive process, until has completed the path of twists and turns, theMetabolic wastes out of discharges from the bottom to go. Such waste is bound to move down, as exports to the bottom, that is, apana this force acting on solid and liquid wastes must be run down, and then discharged.

In addition, we will be through breathing, the gas forms of life energy into the body. The air like a solid and liquid nutrients, is the top enter the body from the system, but it will remain in the lungs piece of the space above the diaphragm (eg, left) carried out with the alveolar capillary gas exchange, and then, those emissions on the must be discharged. However, the inlet and exhaust out,Walking the same path. Yoga argument Lane, apana must be able to treat waste in form of free running up or down, therefore, apana this unit can not be reversed once the downstream gas-up, exhaled will be incomplete.

We can, through yoga training, acquisition of downstream gas-reversing the basic practical skills, but the majority are actually not immediately identified to the. Most people are used to push down manner downstream gas, because every time the body for waste to be discharged, people tend to squeeze it, push it down. This is why most of the beginners are required to completely blow off steam, theWill be to squeeze his breathing muscles, as in the stool or urine.

Sukha and Dukha

To make lifeblood gas and downstream gas to have a healthy interaction between the human body system access must be unobstructed. In the language of yoga, this piece must be in the region sukha state, literally meaning is "a good space." As for the dukha refers to "bad space", generally translated as "suffering."

This model points out of all of the traditional yoga basic training method, it is by removal of obstruction or obstructions to improve the operational efficiency of the system. When we create more good space, our life will be smooth flow of energy to maintain normal function. This model, now that the continual loss of certain essential elements of the body, it was the model from the outside to add just the opposite. Therefore, people would say yoga therapy 90% are related to the discharge of waste.

The use of this concept to respiratory training on the use of another method,Which is to Observe breathing: If our observation of our own breath well, and our contemplation of suction will be a good itself.

Breathing, gravity and yoga

In the womb, the fetus through the umbilical cord uptake of oxygen, the mother is responsible for breathing. Fetal lungs at this time there is no air, and almost no blood, because it does not work, and most of them in a state of collapse. In addition, the circulatory system there are many parts the contrary, oxygenated blood flows in the veins, lack of oxygen in the arterial circulation in the blood, some blood vessels and even disappear after birth,Because they will seal it up and organize the formation of ligaments.

Born represent up to nine months of life with the maintenance of umbilical cord separation. Suddenly, life for the first time, we have a number of real participation in physical activities in order to ensure that they can survive, which will be announced in our physical and physiological independence. That was our first breath, but also the most important in our lifetime, the most powerful breath.

At this time the most important breath, because this is the first expansion of the lungs and the circulatory system as a whole brought about a crucial change,Let him out of the original receiving oxygenated blood from the mother's mode of operation. This tone will not only flock to the lungs to the blood to the heart is divided into left and right pump, but also so that fetal blood vessels of the circulatory system unique to cease operation, and closed.

This is the most powerful breath, because it must break the original cave, filled with amniotic fluid of the surface tension of the lung tissue. This force is a normal inspiratory strength of three to four times.

Another moment of birth occurred in the early experience is that the weight of the body in space. In the womb, we are filled with amniotic fluid in a gravity-free environment,Then, our universe suddenly expanded, because we were born - we are free. Now, our body can move freely in space, limbs and neck can also be arbitrary swing with the body, but we need to be supported gravity environment. As the adults carrying the baby move all very happy to wrap the baby still in its infancy, so in such a young stage, stability and activity does not seem a big problem. However, we are actually starting to do something: we have to find nutrients. And this involves a complex action: synchronized breathing, Xi Yun and swallowing.The survival of this complex by the use of action to the muscles, also established the first individual bits of our skills: support the weight of the head. The essential technique involves the coordination of many muscles, activity and stability of equilibrium (Like all the skills like yoga posture France). This posture France skills from the beginning head down the development, until we learn to walk (about a year later), and in our spine curved when fully developed and reached its peak (about ten or so).

In conclusion, from the moment we are born, we are faced with two kinds of never seen before in the womb Power: breathing and gravity.As long as we are still breathing on this planet, in order to grow strong, we have to reconcile these forces. Yoga training can be seen as a way to consciously try to explore the relationship between breathing and posture, therefore, clear that yoga helps us to meet this basic challenge.

To use the language of yoga, breathing (prana / apana) and postural (sthira / sukha) the overall relationship between the it is a necessary condition for survival, if one has a problem, according to truth that will, the other party will be problems .