--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's a part of Vyaasa's commentary on YS II 51 > (baahyaabhyantara-viSayaakSepii caturthaH [praaNaayaamaH]) > > caturthastu shvaasa-prashvaasayor > viSayaavadhaaraNaat krameNa bhuumijayaad ubhayaakSepa-puurvako > gatyabhaavash caturthaH praaNaayaamaH ityayaM visheSa iti | > > We should think that the most crucial words, as it were, > are these: > > caturthas tu shvaasa-prashvaasayor...gatyabhaavash > > which might be translated for instance like this: > > the fourth (pranayama) [is] stopping(? -- gati + a_bhaavas: > motion -non-existence) of exhalation[and]-inhalation (shvaasa- > prashvaasayoH) > > But it all depends on whether "stopping" or somesuch is a correct > translation for "gatyabhaavaH" [gati + abhaavaH] in that context... >
Suspending, as in "spontaneous breath suspension?" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=7045911&query_hl=2 : Psychosom Med. 1982 May;44(2):133-53. Related Articles, Links Breath suspension during the transcendental meditation technique. Farrow JT, Hebert JR. We observed, over four independent experiments, 565 criterion-meeting episodes of breath suspension in 40 subjects practicing the Transcendental Mediation technique (TM), a simple mental technique involving no breath control procedures. The frequency and length of these breath suspension episodes were substantially and significantly greater for TM subjects than for control subjects relaxing with eyes closed. Voluntary control of respiration was most probably eliminated as an explanation of ths phenomenon by the experimental design and by the use of a variety of nonintrusive respiration transducers, including a two-channel magnetometer, an indirect but accurate means of monitoring respiration. Many TM subjects report experience of a completely quiescent mental state characterized by maintained awareness in the absence of thought. Eleven TM subjects were instructed to press an event mark button after each episode of this pure consciousness experience. The temporal distribution of button presses was significantly related (p less than 10(-10) to the distribution of breath suspension episodes, indicating that breath suspension is a physiological correlate of some, but not all, episodes of the pure consciousness experience. In an extensive study of a single advanced mediator, pure consciousness experiences were also associated with reduced heart rate; high basal skin resistance; stable phasic skin resistance; markedly reduced mean respiration rate, mean minute ventilation and mean metabolic rate; and statistically consistent changes in EEG power and EEG coherence (an indicator of long-range spatial order in the nervous system). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
