Simple breathing techniques can regulate your energy, calm your mind, and enhance overall well-being without relying on medicine, says Yash Gupta

Ever wondered sometimes you take a deep breath in and you feel happy, but you dont know how that happiness comes from? Ever wondered why even one of the nostrils gets blocked and throws you off the track? Well in this article we are about to find out the healing through breathing. Now there will be no more queues for the doctor’s appointment for little things and no more worries as we’re about to find out how and why.

Before starting and before telling let’s just figure it out I hope everybody has two holes in the nostrils. One is on the right and one is on the left. In yoga it is said one is Ida and the other is pingla, one is a feminine and the other is a masculine. Before starting, let's just figure it out. Let's go for the test now tell me which nostril is working more than the other, is it left or is it right. Just test it. As per the science of yoga the right nostril is associated with the heat and with the sun and that is why it is also called the Suryanadi.

The left nostril is associated with calmness and coolness and that is why it is known as the Chandra nadi. Both of the nadis are equally important as one heats the body which is essential for living and one cools the body which is also equivalent for the living. But real bliss happens only when these two are working absolutely fine. That means you’re breathing from both of your nostrils which is a rare phenomena and it is also known as a Sushumna nadi (middle nadi). The more both nostrils are working the better the body the mind and the life will be as per the yoga and in the spiritual path as well.

So all of the spiritual paths are associated only and only with the breath, nothing more but nothing less. So once if you’re feeling very anxious and the restlessness comes up, are you feeling a high blood pressure just do one very simple thing: put your right arm onto your level as you’re placing your arm on the shoulder of your friend? This will activate your left nostril and help you cool down the body. With this all of the anxiety, worries, restlessness and the blood pressure will cool down naturally and you don’t have to rely on any sort of medicine. Just your nostrils are enough to keep you in the balance and the same way if you’re feeling very cold, like the winter season right now, try rasing your left arm onto the shoulder of a friend and then see what magic happens to your body would naturally start to heat up.

Now you can switch between your modes and regulate your body temperature accordingly. If you don’t have time to raise your arm and sit for five minutes simply use the cotton and plug it in your opposite ear and just stuff it completely so that it creates a vaccum. And then bingo that’s done. You become your own doctor using just a breath as simple as that it is possible the healing lies in your breathing. Remember to breathe properly to live harmoniously.

— The author is an Art of Living faculty, meditation and mind coach and professional yoga trainer