Kapal Bhati
Is an ancient technique in the yoga
system. And it has been taught for centuries.
Kapal Bhati simply means...
Kapal means skull, head.
Bhati means Purification.
Kapal Bhati means that which purifies
your head.
Once your head is purified
you are a
totally different person.
It brings transformation.
So Kapal Bhati is a system of
not only breathing. We can say that it is
Like a type of pranayama
and a pranic force, which we
need in our life.
The process of Kapalbhati is...
...it is like Pranayama.
And this process, when you do it
practically, it brings oxygen
in the system and it takes carbon dioxide out
of the system
so this way it brings more oxygen to the brain,
more oxygen in the lungs,
and more oxygen in the blood.
That is why this process needs
to be learned the right way.
You will gain a lot of benefits
from this process.
The physical benefits of Kapalbhati are:
It relaxes a person
- sick people first. It ends
sickness in the body,
lowers your blood pressure, and
it removes stress from the body and
from the brain. The more oxygen in the brain
the more stress is released. It fully detoxifies your body.
So, also
the best benefit of Khapalbhati is
that you can not
be depressed in your life anymore.
You will be a normal person in society.
You will grow
physically, mentally and spiritually
every moment.
The spiritual benefits of Kapalbhati
are...
It relaxes a person. As soon as the person is relaxed,
thoughts disappear.
When thoughts disappear,
you are fully focused, you are fully concentrated.
You have the possibility to jump into meditation...
...into deep meditation. As soon as you are in
deep meditation, then you can
see yourself and how much
goodness you are holding until this moment
and you never realized it.
Kapalbhati
as I mentioned before, is a very forceful
inhalation and exhalation.
It is called pranayama. Pranayama is
breathing in and out, but in a certain way
so that when you force air
inhalation, it brings a lot of oxygen
to the lungs and your system, and when you exhale
forcefully, then it takes toxins out.
That is why in the western hemisphere, we call it
breath of fire. Fire burns the toxins
and I will show you now
how to do it.
It is very important that you do it right.
Inhale forcefully when you inhale.
I will show you that your stomach goes in
and out when you inhale and exhale.
This is the system
that you can do: when you exhale the stomach goes in
And inhalation happens by itself.
When you place your hand on your stomach you will feel
how much your stomach goes in
And how your chest expands.
That is the way to feel it.
And when you feel it, then you will see that you are doing it right
because you body will show you that you are doing it
right.
Do Kapalbhati altogether
maybe 25 times in the beginning and you
watch me and you do it too.
I am placing my hand on my stomach so that you can see
when I exhale, how my stomach goes in.
This was twenty five times.
And after this you can take deep breaths.
You can take a breath one more time even more deeply.
Let us do it twenty five more times
And you will feel that your stomach goes in
and your whole chest is expanding
because it brings a lot of oxygen into your lungs.
Today you learned Kapalbhati, and this is
a very good process to bring stress
out of your life.
And to bring peace to your life.
If you do it daily one hundred or two hundred times a day
you will see the benefits, physically, mentally, and spritually.
Out of whatever I have mentioned
the most important in life is peace.
When your life is peaceful, you are a good person in society.
And not to be mistaken,
when you do this system, this method, this technique -
Kapalbhati - brings a lot of oxygen into your blood
and into your lungs. To a certain degree you will
be surprised that even a disease like cancer
can be healed up to a
certain degree. Like if it is an
initial state of cancer, it can be very
beneficial. So do it, do it daily
And you will see the benefit.
Jai Siddhatma