Yogic Physiology

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What happens in a coma?

My friend was in an accident and his heart stopped. He was brought back to life with a defibrillator and is now in a coma. What happens in the body and mind of such a person? ...

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Death / Parenting / Yogic Physiology

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Why is a child turning 4 significant?

Namaskaram Sadhguru. I lost my daughter last week, and I am in deep grief. What can I do for her now that she has passed? ...

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The significance of the Pineal Gland

There are ways to do certain sadhana which is more intense than sexuality, which is more ecstatic than sexuality. On one level, if you look at it - all dimensions of yoga, one way or the other, you’re ultimately trying to activate the pineal. Because once it begins its secretion, ...

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Health & Wellbeing / Wisdom For Seekers / Yogic Physiology

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5 ways of yogic cleansing

This body's composition is such that 72% of this body is water, approximately 12% is earth, 6% is air, 4% is fire and the rest is space or Akash. How these five elements behave within you will determine just about everything. Five yogic ways of cleansing the elements - treat ...

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Death / Yogic Physiology

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Is there rebirth?

The question is - is there rebirth? If it's there, what is the basis for one being to go from one birth to another? What is it that carries a person from one to another? ...

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Insight into your breath & energy patterns

In the yogic way of looking at things, there is no such thing as body and mind. There is physical body, there is mental body, there is energy body. The energy body comprises of 72,000 nadis. If you observe yourself through the day, you would have noticed that approximately between ...

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Health & Wellbeing / Indian Culture / Yogic Physiology

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4 types of bath to cleanse your aura

Aura is a certain manifestation of yourself. A subtler manifestation in the physical body. Keeping it clean is good. Aura is a manifestation, it's not a presence by itself. But what you manifested yesterday, or what you manifested 10 years ago - may be still hanging around you, ...

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Benefits & dangers of shaving your head

If you suddenly remove this hair, then you will see the energies will move in that direction. So people who are doing certain type of sadhana, want that to happen....Some of you may know that - particularly ladies who have never shaved their head in their life - suddenly one ...

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What is Prana?

The word prana - there is no equivalent word in English, but we can say it’s a 'vital energy'. That which we call as the life energy, is Prana. Prana has ten different manifestations in the body. But for the sake of understanding we’ll bring it down to five. These five are ...

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Death / Yogic Physiology

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Secrets of the dead

Why are disembodied beings (ghosts) drawn to a tamarind tree, or a yogi or to cobra? Can possession by disembodied beings be nullified? If yes, then how? What really is heaven and hell? How is it determined whether one will go to heaven or hell? What happens when one consciously ...

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Number 108: What is it’s significance?

Today Neuroscientists are telling us that, because of physical laws, human brain cannot evolve further. Adiyogi told this 15,000 years ago, that your physical evolution is complete, and unless drastic changes happen in the solar system - physically, you can not further evolve. ...

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Sadhguru maps the Chakras of a person

If you read the basic map of one’s 'prana' you know their past, present and future – everything about that person. Because in a way your life is just a manifestation of your energies, how they function. If you do proper Hatha Yoga, this slightly skewed positions that your ...

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Health & Wellbeing / Wisdom For Seekers / Yogic Physiology

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The benefits of balancing the energy body

Most of the yogic practices work on the energy body, because if your energy body is in full vibrance and proper balance, physical and mental health will happen naturally. ...

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Stay awake on this night to open your third eye

On the 14th day of every month, which is 1 day before the 'no moon' day, there is a natural upsurge of energy. Everyone should stay awake, to keep their spine vertical and make use of this for their benefit. Of all the Shivaratris the Shivaratri that appears in the month of ‘maga’, ...

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From where does life enter the body?

If you have a newborn baby in your home, you would see a certain part of the skull is not formed. Have you noticed this? So the child has to be handled gently. That part is just skin, there is no bone. So this part, in the yogic terminology is referred to as Brahmarandhra. Randhra ...

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Indian Culture / Wisdom For Seekers / Yogic Physiology

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Can Indian classical music activate the chakras?

The whole existence is a reverberation of energy, which is sound. Human beings can listen to a limited range of frequency. With Sadhana, in a state of Rithambra Pragna, a human being can listen to sounds beyond the normal range. Indian classical music is not just for entertainment, ...

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What is the purpose of life?

Does soul exist? And one more, what is the purpose of life? ...

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Akash – Enhance your perception

Sadhguru tells us that for one to explore mystical dimensions, enhancing akash is a very vital and necessary aspect. For those on spiritual path, or those who want to enhance their perception, the most important element is akash. If one wants to perceive vigyan, that ...

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Water: How to handle for better health?

Today, scientific experiments show that water has tremendous memory. Just with emotion, and the way one touches it, it's molecular structure changes. If we want to be healthy, well, successful and prosperous, we must learn to treat water well. Sadhguru explains the right way ...

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The 5 fundamental elements explained

How well organized the five elements are in your system decides how firm and stable and organically strong this body is. 72% of the body is just Water, 12% is Earth, 6% is Air, 4% is Fire and the remaining 6% is Space. ...

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Mental Health / Success / Yogic Physiology

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AUM – The sound of the existence

This is a profound must watch talk by Sadhguru. He explains that there are only 3 basic sounds in the existence - 'aa', 'oo' and 'mm'. Without the use of tongue once can only make these 3 sounds. Wherever there is a realized being the sound 'aum' reverberates, however, over a ...

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Meditation / Yogic Physiology

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What is Pyramid meditation?

Sadhguru explains the five different manifestations of prana (life energies). He explains that one of them, vyana, is in-charge of the preservative nature. The geometry of a pyramid is such, that it preserves the vyana, so anything kept in the pyramid will be preserved. He tells ...

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Parenting / Yogic Physiology

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How much karmic influence do parents have on their children?

Lakshmi Manchu asks Sadhguru - "Namaskaram Sadhguru. I have a question. So, does the relationship that we have with our parents, impact the course of our life? If yes, how best our we to nurture this?" Sadhguru tells is that parents karmic influence on their children is till ...

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Universe’s Secrets: How do Yogis know?

Sadhguru gives an insight into yogic physiology. There are five layers or sheaths of the body. Sadhguru also explains how the number of breath one takes, is directly related to perception. ...

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Earth: How to handle for better health (The Five Elements)

This body is nothing but an outcrop of this planet - the mother Earth. Just being in regular touch with the Earth has miraculous affect in improving one's health. Sadhguru explains in this talk how just this simple technique can cure most of your ailments and offers simple tips ...

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How does energy transmission happen through the chakras?

I wanted to know how does a guru transfer the yogic knowledge or information by means of transmission? The mechanics of it, the mechanics of that. How is it done? ...

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Can Ida & Pingala be experienced?

In Yogic Physiology, #Ida & #Pingala are two main #Nadis in the human system. Sadhguru tells that it is very much possible to experience these two Nadis within oneself. ...

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Yogic Perspective on Good Health

What is the relationship between the spiritual self and the physical body as it relates to disease and self-healing? ...

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Rings & Occult

Is there such a thing - that one should not wear a ring on the thumb? The human body is a complex mechanism, a complex machine. The physical reality is a multi-layered existence, one inside the other. Occult is a technology handling a different level of physical dimension. Rings ...

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