One of the most spectacular generating and dispersing organizations on the face of the globe is the human respiratory system. It was a wonder to ancient Yogis, and it continues to be a mystery to modern scientists.
- However, nothing is known about its operations and purpose. In the thoracic area, the lungs are two sponge-like breathing organs. These help to oxygenate the blood while also removing carbon dioxide. Each one is on the opposite side of the chest, divided by the heart and bigger blood veins.
- Each is encased in its own "serious" membrane, the pleura, which rests on the diaphragm at its base. These two lungs contain about 600 million cells, which would span hundreds of square meters if stretched out on a flat surface.
- We breathe between 13 to 20 times per minute in normal breathing, or 1000 times each hour on average.
- A shallow breath (Sukshma) takes in around 20 cubic inches of air, and a lengthy deep breath (Dirgha) might take in about MO cubic inches.
- According to yogis, we take 1.5 breaths every minute on average, or 21,600 breaths in a 24-hour period.
- The most agitated species in nature are quick breathers: the mouse, 50 times a minute; the chicken, 40 times; the monkey, 30 times; the dog, 2S times; the cat, 24 times; the duck, 20 times; and the more tranquil, like the horse, 16 times and the tortoise, 3 times.
- The heart, the giant body-pump, pumps 800 quarts of blood every hour via the lungs, releasing 30 quarts of carbonic acid (in the form of carbon dioxide) daily from the stale venous blood and allowing the blood to be re-oxygenated.
- Every three minutes, all of the blood in the body returns to the heart, which beats 100,000 times each day on average to perform this function. This is the same amount of labor energy required to lift a 130-ton weight one foot off the ground.
- The heart pumps enough blood to keep two of the world's largest mega oil tankers afloat for a lifetime. The oxygen and nutrients are carried to every region of the body by the new blood that is pumped out through the arteries.
- We all know what happens to the body when there aren't enough nutrients in the bloodstream—we call it starvation. Despite this, the body of 10 people contains sufficient nutrition to last a substantial period of fast.
- However, the blood is "oxygen-depleted," and we have limited knowledge of what occurs when there isn't enough oxygen in the system. A lethargic stupor is indicative of impending collapse or possibly death.
- But it is only through the study of gerontology that man is learning about what happens before this awful conclusion. Geriatric medicine is the discipline of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of the elderly.
One thing we do know is that the body's aging process is triggered by a reduction in the quantity of oxygen delivered to the brain as the organism ages. According to modern psychologists, if the brain does not get enough oxygen for cerebration (mind-brain activity)," the carbon dioxide will produce severe fialltigbisions and unpleasant mental reactions.
- I feel that this is one of the primary underlying causes of the danger of mental illness in today's environment.
- Our oxygen supply is depleting or becoming contaminated by industrial and scientific activities, so man no longer has access to the pure air he requires.
- There's more. by restricting physical activity via the use of autos and other forms of fast transit Man has deteriorated into a sickly weakling.
- Being "less than a peasant" these days is a stigma—but isn't it preferable to be a healthy peasant than a dead plutocrat?
- In the physical body, day-to-day breathing is mostly an autonomic activity controlled by the lower brain.
- The higher brain, which is employed by the scions mind, takes over the whole breathing function in Yoga Pranayama.
Both automatic and conscious breathing have two unique aspects: one is referred to as outer respiration, while the other is referred to as inner respiration. The phrases "Bahva" and "Aruara" are used to represent these in Yogic systems.
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