If Gingrich or Ron Paul find out about this - they'll want DHSS to teach pranyama to the homeless.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > From Cyril Henry Hoskin's a.k.a. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa's book Wisdom of > the Ancients: > > Here is an exercise that enables one to keep warm in cold weather. > It is something much practiced in Tibet where a lama can sit unclothed > on ice, and even melt ice around him and dry off wet blankets draped > around his shoulders. > > Here's how you do it. Sit comfortably ... and make sure that you > really ARE sitting with your spine upright. You must have no > tensions or pressing worries for the moment. Close your eyes, and > think of yourself saying, 'OM, OM, OM', telepathically. > > Close your left nostril, and take us much air as you can through > the right nostril. Then close the right (your thumb is the best > for this because it is the most convenient), and retain the breath > by pressing your chin hard against your chest, bring your chin up > close to your neck. > > Hold your breath for a time, and then gradually exhale through > the left nostril by closing the right nostril (again the thumb is > easiest here). > > Careful note -- in this particular exercise one always breathes in > through the right > nostril, and always breathes out through the left nostril. > > You should do this from a start of ten breathings, during which you > gradually increase > the time of breath retention, up to some fifty times, but you must > increase your breath > retention very gradually, there is no need to rush, and while on the > subject here is > a little note which may free you from worry: when you have been doing it > for some > time, and you are doing it with deep breath retention, you may find that > you perspire > from the roots of the hair. That is perfectly safe, perfectly normal, > and really does > increase the health and cleanliness of the body. >
