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My name is Surbhi. I am a Yoga Teacher.
The Goal of my Channel is to tell you
all those little tips and tricks that
many Yoga teachers know
but somehow in class setting
they do not get conveyed to the students.
So, as the title says, how do we stop chattering of the mind?
That's what we are going to talk about today.
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So this is a very common thing that people encounter.
I sit for meditation but my mind cannot stop chattering.
I don't know what to do. I cannot do asana, I cannot do meditation.
Even in Savasana, my mind just keeps on going and going and going.
How do I stop it? So,
to start with, breath and mind, they are interconnected.
Breath as we say in Hatha yoga 'Prana', and mind as we say in Hatha yoga 'Chitta'.
Prana and Chitta are related.
When Prana moves, Chitta moves. When Prana stops, Chitta stops.
So when breath moves, mind moves. When breath stops, mind stops.
So, you control one and the other one gets controlled automatically.
Now controlling the mind obviously is not possible, specially in these days.
These days people have so many external influences.
There is a constant input of the information or the knowledge, or everything that just keeps on coming and coming.
Unless you are living in a cave, constant input of something or the other
through you five sense organs, and then go
in your subconscious mind and then your mind just keeps on chattering and chattering.
So, controlling the mind: its very hard.
But, if we control our breath,
we can control our mind.
Controlled breath also means controlled nerve impulses.
And if the nerve impulses are controlled, then the brain is controlled or the mind is controlled.
So what exactly does controlled breath mean?
When I say controlled breath, it means the retention of the breath
during inhalation and exhalation.
So when we inhale
and then we stop, we are not breathing,
and then we exhale.
So, that time period between inhalation and exhalation,
the retention period, if you can prolong it,
it means you have a controlled breath.
The longer the breath is held, the greater the gap between nerve impulses.
And that's where when the mind gets calmer.
If you have been doing yoga and pranayama, and you want to go deeper into the practice,
it is really important that you have a controlled breath and a longer retention.
So you can go deep into meditation or chanting.
Just to give you a quick taste or quick experiment
of what I am saying. Lets practice Bhastrika Pranayama.
I have made a video before on Bhastrika Pranayama,
you can click on the link and check it out.
About all the benefits, and how to do it and everything.
I am not going to go into the detail of that,
but to show you how the retention of the breath works,
we are going to do Bhastrika here.
So what I need you to do, keep your hands by your side.
Very loose fist, not tight, loose fist.
And when we go up, we are going to inhale.
When we take our hands down, we are going to exhale.
So, it will be something like this............
Like that
So, I need you to start this at your own pace.
I am not going to do this with you. You can pause the video
and do it on your own. But,
keep your eyes closed. So, when you start keep your eyes closed.
Keep doing it as long as you want.
If you start to feel dizzy, stop.
You cannot keep up with the breath, stop.
But as long as you need to, keep doing it.
Once you stop, don't open your eyes.
All I want you to do is keep your hands in your lap,
keep your eyes closed, and just be in that moment.
For few seconds you will see that your body does not need to breathe at all.
So I want you to absolutely be in that moment. Observe that moment of breathlessness.
And once you feel the need of taking an inhale again,
then inhale and slowly open your eyes.
So you can start at your own pace.
Pause me. Once you are done, be in that moment,
inhale, open your eyes. You can play again, and I will tell you the rest later.
So, if you experienced that moment,
then you must have noticed that while you were in the moment of breathlessness,
there were absolutely no thoughts in your mind.
If you keep practicing Bhastrika like that daily,
that moment of breathlessness keeps increasing.
And every time there is no breath, there will be no thoughts in the mind.
You can even experience this without Bhastrika.
You can force yourself to hold your breath.
Although its not a good idea, but just to prove the point
that when Prana moves, mind moves, when Prana stops, mind stops
So if you hold your breath forcefully, there will be no thoughts in your mind.
If you want to think forcefully that's a different story.
If you want to prove me wrong. But,
only if you hold your breath, there will be no thoughts in your mind.
But obviously doing forcefully is not a good idea.
Practice Pranayama, Bhastrika.
And improve the retention of the breath.
And then you will be able to stop that mind chatter.
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Namaste.