About the importance of breathing

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It's easy to tell what's going on in someone's mind if you pay attention to the way they breathe: rapid breathing usually means they are agitated - for whatever reason. Your breath is the bridge that connects your body to your mind. There are 8 steps in Yoga to reach Moskha, liberation, which is the ultimate goal:

  1. Yamas: is your behaviour towards others.
  2. Niyamas: is your behaviour towards yourself.
  3. Asana or postures: The aim of the many postures in Yoga is to be able to hold a sitting position during a long meditation, without feeling uncomfortable,
  4. Pranayama: "breath control".
  5. Pratyahara: is the effort to bring the attention inwards instead of outwards: looking at oneself and feeling the body.
  6. Dharana: the conscious effort not to give in to distractions, either of the senses or of the mind
  7. Dhyana: to be able to remain concentrated, to maintain meditation for long periods of time.
  8. Samadhi: the final step: Moksha, liberation, transcending and merging with God. It has been described as a state of ecstasy.

These steps must be attained in order, one first, then the other, one by one. Pranayama is the intermediate step: the one that connects those related to the body with those related to the mind.

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