How to practice Anulom vilom|Best way of doing anulom vilom ?

Pranayama is a vital part of yoga  that means extension of the breath and which has many health improving benefits.

Anulom Vilom is an important pranayama also called "Nadi Shodhana" which should be included in daily practices. 

It is what which can be called an all rounder  pranayama because it can be practised by everyone irrespective of diseases, illness or old age etc.

Anulom-vilom is always preferred because of its best working and magical healing for curing ailments like stress, depression, migraine, digestive disorder, hormonal imbalance, diabetes, blood pressure, insomnia, sleep apnoea and many other illness. 

Even it is the first preferred practice to anyone who loves to get over the health issues, even this is favourite for  the top renowned yoga gurus like Baba Ramdev and many other around the world.   

Pranayama is recommended for people who suffer from Asthma or anxiety it also increasing lung capacity and ability to obtain oxygen which has a positive effect on all of the organs and metabolism.

What should be your position for doing 

Anulom vilom:

Sukhasan

Sit in a nice comfortable seated position, you could be in "sukhasan" or also be in sitting in a chair with your back against a wall, just make sure your back is comfortable and straight.

What should be your hands position:

Chin mudra of left hand

●The mudra is position of hands, the mudra on your left hand will be "chin" mudra in which  forefinger and thumb are touching each other.

Nashik mudra

●And on your right hand, the first two fingers is fold into the base of the thumb; so that it frees up of your right hand.

●Your right ring finger and thumb are going to use to close each nostril, so that you can breath through the other nostril.

How to practice Anulom Vilom

• ■For the Anulom vilom pranayama you will inhale and exhale through one nostril at a time.

• ■You are going to use thumb to block your right nostril and your ring finger to block your left nostril.

• ■So, first place your thumb on your  right nostril and breath in through your left nostril.

• ■Breathing deeply to your stomach and chest then hold your breath, then remove your thumb and instead block left nostril with your ring finger and then breath out through your right nostril.

• ■Keep the hand position as you are now going to inhale through your right nostril, then open your left nostril and block the right and breath out calmly or slowly. Try to exhale a bit longer than you inhale.

• ■Repeat this process at least ten time in beginning and after you getting used to of it you can do it according to your need and capacity.

What things you need to remember while doing Anulom vilom:

• ◇Certain things you should consider while doing this breathing exercise first when you breath in and breath out from your nose, you should breathing slowly, deeply and calmly without making any noise.

• ◇If you do it very fast and with noise from your nose then it may block your sinuses under your nostrils. So, try to breath calmly and deeply.

• ◇Secondly, as you doing Anulom vilom you should keep your back straight and because you are using right arm a lot more than left  while doing this, pay special  attention  to relax the right shoulder into its socket.

• ◇And try to keep the right upper arm as  vertical as possible, resting against the side of your body or chest so that you can relax your shoulder otherwise it can become very uncomfortable. 

How Anulom vilom pranayama effects on our body:
 

 Effect in circulatory system:

• ☆When we are doing pranayama or breathing in a slow, deep manner then it have a good result on a circulatory system.

• ☆When we breath from the right nostril it activates sympathetic nervous system and we breath from left nostril it activates parasympathetic nervous system.

• ☆And during anulom vilom pranayama with alternate nostril breathing it activates and balances autonomous nervous system.

• ☆And because human body's ciculatory system like heart rate, blood pressure etc. monitored or regulated by autonomous nervous system.

• ☆When autonomus nervous system is settled then blood pressure, heart rate etc is also under control.

Increases ressistance  power

• ☆As during this pranayama we inhaled  a lot of air and when we inhale large amount of air, large amount of oxygen is also getting in our body.

• ☆So, in this pranayama we inhales  five times more oxygen. And this oxygen goes to lungs and utemately reaches to cells and removes toxin from cells that energizes, restore or regenerate the cells.

• ☆When we hold our breath, body's cells detoxify themselves and release the carbon dioxide from the cells.

• ☆This whole process gives the capacity to resist the micro organism and increases the ressistance power of body.