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Holding the breath in affects the sympathetic nervous system (the nerves which put the body "on alert" and stimulate us) and can temporarily raise the blood pressure. Holding the breath out affects the parasympathetic nervous system (the nerves that relax the body) and temporarily lowers the blood pressure. 2

"Any time you do not have the answer for something-anything- it doesn't matter what the question is -hold the breath in. The moment you hold the breath in, the body will automatically computerize to survive, and your question is heard with it. It will give you the answer. This is because the breath of life is life itself and everything is a facet of life. There is nothing beyond that." 3

"When you feel very weak and you feel like having a bourbon on the rocks or black tea or Coke, whatever, forget about the commercialization. Let's talk about what you can substitute for it by yourself. Breathe and hold. If you know Breath of Fire you are lucky, but you look odd doing it in the market . . . so breathe in, hold as long as comfortable, and breathe out. Oxygen will

substitute for the drug and you will be out of it. How many breaths does it take? Seven. If you can inhale and hold for seven breaths, your oxygen will be complete in your circulating blood, and you shall not need what you are longing to have." 4

To help quit smoking: "Inhale deep and hold the breath to your capacity, then exhale and inhale again and hold. All that is required to get rid of the urge to smoke is to repeat this breath seven to fifteen times a day for seven to fifteen days. Within that period of time you will make the body's metabolism go through the change to substitute oxygen in place of nicotine.

"You can also eliminate the stress that was formerly removed by smoking by putting a few raisins in your mouth and chewing them. The best way to chew raisins is to crush them with your teeth and paste them on your upper palate, and then suck on them." 5

"Anytime you desire something and you want to get away from that desire, the basic mantra is 'inhale and hold the

breath.' Anytime you hold the breath, desire will disappear . . . If you really want to get rid of something very unique and you don't know how, exhale totally and hold the breath out. You can't even think of what you had been desiring, you are cleaned out on the spot, because the link of all life and all desires or no desires is just the breath. As thoughts constantly come to you from the intellect, so come the desires. And the moment you hold the breath, the intellect stops giving you a current of thought. You can't think; you can have a thought, but you can't have a wave, you can't have desire, you can't have emotions, the whole thing stops.

"You must understand, what you call living is just the continual vibration of breath coming in and out. Just delay it either way and intellect must immediately stop giving thoughts. Moment the link of thought wave will stop, you won't perceive emotion . . . so simple. It doesn't take much for you to work on that. Simply you should be conscious of the breath. " 6

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Women in Training Summer 1976

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"Sahaj is the way of bliss, of happiness. Sahaj also means 'slow'.

You do not have to exert much. There is no tension. Saleh means comfort.

Dhyaan means meditation. Sahaj Saleh Dhyaan is a very ancient technology."

Sit in any comfortable posture with your chin in, chest out, and spine straight. This meditation can be done with or without a mudra, it is your choice. As you breathe in, keep your eyes closed, and consciously feel that the breath is passing between the eyebrows and the root of the nose.

This breath meditation cal! be done in one of two ways. It is timed by recitation of the Mul Mantra: "Ek Ong Kaar, Saat Nam, Kartaa Purkh, Nirbhao, Nirvair, Akaal Moort, Ajooni Saibhang, Gur Prasaad, Jap, Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Haibhee Sach, Nanak Hosee Bhee Sach."

In either way of doing the meditation, the recitation of the mantra is totally mental and silent and there are five recitations of the Mul Mantra per complete breath. On the held breath the diaphragm lock should be applied.':' There was no explanation in the scriptures, no footnote, no side note, and no reference to explain why there are two methods.

First method: On the inhalation, mentally recite the Mul Mantra twice, hold the breath as you mentally recite the Mul Mantra once, and on the exhalation, mentally recite the Mul Mantra twice.

Second method (the easier pattern) : On the inhalation, mentally recite the Mul Mantra once, hold the breath as you mentally recite the Mul Mantra three times, and on the exhalation, mentally recite the Mul Mantra once.

No practice time was given when this kriya was explained.

':'Commentary/ HJK: The standard practice and procedure is that diaphragm lock is only applied after a complete exhalation, so we need to be careful in our application of the lock as instructed by the scriptures for this meditation. Diaphragm lock is a very sophisticated operation involving control of both the thoracic diaphragm and the rib cage and the stretching of the thoracic (rib cage) spine. In several instances throughout his lectures, Yogi Bhajan indicates that diaphragm lock is one of those practices that is so vast that it can only be fully understood through much time and practice. It gives not only control, but also understanding of the physical and energetic nature of the rib cage and chest area.

Generally, in diaphragm lock, the rib cage is lifted, the ribs spread outward, and the diaphragm is sucked up into the chest cavity (this lifting of the diaphragm is aided by the fact that the breath is held out and there is low pressure in the chest cavity at that time) . When the breath is held in the lungs, as in this meditation, any upward movement by the diaphragm is going to increase the pressure in the chest cavity, neck, and head, which seems to be the very opposite of the bliss, happiness, and comfort after which this meditation is named. This pressure can also have harmful effects, especially if neck lock is not applied perfectly.

Therefore, it is suggested that applying the diaphragm lock in this circumstance means that the ribcage is lifted, the thoracic spine is stretched upward, and the ribs are flared outward while the breath is held in, but one does not suck the diaphragm up into the chest cavity.

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