I think I am allergic to chanting

[Guest guest]

The very minute I start to Chant, I start yawning, and yawning and

sometimes I can control it by sucking in enough air/ozygen. Its really

bad.

 

What I would like to know is - are there any kriyas that work with the

lungs and increasing a persons capacity to take in more air. I can't

even get through the one line " Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo " without running

out of air.

 

My dad smoked cigars around me when I was little, and I was

hospitalized a lot, as a kid, with pneumonia. But it seems to me,

lack of 'space' inside, as the lungs can't expand enough? I am not

sure that makes any sense.

 

Breath of Fire has been suggested. Are there any others?

 

Thank your for your help and suggestions,

 

Sat Avtar Kaur

Bothell, WA

[Guest guest]

Dear Sat Avtar Kaur

 

Here's a simple exercise to expand the lungs. Bring your arms parallel

to the floor straight out to the side. Then bring your forearms up at

a 90 degree angle. Make fists. Bring your elbows and forearms toward

each other without hitting each other, with the exhale, and open the

arms out with the inhale. Go rapidly.

 

Yawning is not about boredom, it is a way the body realigns itself.

Have you noticed how when one person yawns others start yawning as

well. Boredom isn't contagious, so it is for another reason we yawn.

It is an adjustment and re-calibration to each other. So I think it is

a good sign you are yawning.

 

Blessings, Awtar Singh

[Guest guest]

Dear Sat Avtar Kaur,

I often find myself yawning while chanting or just meditating at the point that I shift from one Guru to the next, or consciousness of one aspect of being to the next. It feels like a stretch, and yawning is a way of stretching the breath, stretching Guru awareness, Pawan Guru.

 

Blessings,

Guruprem Kaur